Yes, I was aware there would be issues as it was a very quickly
hacked-together proof of concept. Thanks for the feedback :-)
The hairtunes pipe support was added specifically for SBS
integration...
--
mflint
mflint
srcshelton;627462 Wrote:
> Airplay works, and I'm listening to iTunes via my Squeezebox right now:
>
> http://blog.stuart.shelton.me/archives/762
>
> :D
Great write-up! I started putting together a plugin, so will
incorporate your instructions into it :)
https://github.c
x27;s been that way since 2005."
>
> Unless I'm very much mistaken Squeezeboxes have also been able to do
> that for a long time.
That's very cheeky, and they must know it's lies...
--
mflint
My mistake, I re-ordered the instructions and didn't read them properly.
The "rawpipe" file appears *after* starting "shairport.pl", so maybe
start shairport and then edit the path in "cust
Milkman In The West)'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_(The_Fastest_Milkman_in_the_West))"
:-D
Here's the GitHub repo if anyone's feeling brave... ;-)
https://github.com/mflint/SquairPlay
--
mflint
Eric, I believed that Waveinput was a Windows-only thing. Let us know
how you get on.
I hope to have a proof-of-concept plugin uploaded to GitHub later
today.
Matthew
--
mflint
mflint's Profile:
tomate
the conversion (either to wav, flac or mp3) using the
"custom-types.conf" file in a similar way to Wave Input.
I'll stick the code on github if I get a proof-of-concept working.
You're right about
play crashes
as soon as it tries to write any data to the output.
I'll attach gdb to it tonight - hope that'll tell me what I'm doing
wrong with "libao". I'm not even sure whether libao will be necessary
at all..?
Matthew
--
mflint
--
to push to a named pipe
instead, similar to what the "wavin2cmd" program does for the Wave
Input plugin. (I'm guessing that it's already a raw PCM stream)
(See function "init_output" in "hairport.c")
I'd really like to see this working!
--
mflint
-
r plugin appears...
http://mafipulation.org/blagoblig/2011/04/08 (initial announcement)
https://github.com/bbhoss/shairport (unofficial github mirror)
--
mflint
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?user
Another solution would be to post a new thread with title "Hey! Does
anyone live near ?" ;-)
You may get lucky, and be able to borrow a remote!
M
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) -
o that you need to go back to setup, and
> for that you need a working remote.
I think I assumed you could use a JVC remote to configure the "auto
update"?
Matthew
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) -
'Goal
Me, I'd love to do a few janitorial tasks as a way of getting a broad
overview of the codebase.
Matthew
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush
plugin
to a shiny new 'Popcorn Hour' (http://www.popcornhour.com/).
(For some reason, Net-UDAP couldn't discover the SBR unless it was
hard-wired to my router)
Thanks again (and thanks to Robin B for the Net-UDAP utility!),
Matthew :)
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(
e
job? I thought I'd read that the SBR is auto-sensing (so a crossover
isn't needed)
- How to enable bridging on the SBR? I tried Robin's Net-UDAP tool,
but struggled with the settings... should I persevere with Net-UDAP,
or is there an easier way?
Thanks folks
settle for
lower quality lossy tunes. Ironically, they'll happily perform the
'remove-DRM' task if possible, which is weird...
Another reason iTunes will win is because of tie-in. Buy and iPod? Use
iTunes. Buy Apple TV? Use iTunes. Buy any Mac? Get iTunes
--
mflint
'LiveDe
t) is shown instead,
If you enable 'shuffle', tracks in the current playlist will be
shuffled - you need to make sure the playlist has more than one track.
(Forgive me if I've got this completely wrong though!)
Matthew
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://insig
nd they need to get the CDs back in the correct box!
M
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush
plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wik
It's funny that he identified both a problem, and found a set of
solutions. Then he discounted the solutions because he couldn't be
bothered implementing them.
His loss...
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) -
djfake;268947 Wrote:
> Also, why doesn't the old remote for the Squeezebox not work with the
> SBR?
The SBR has no infra-red detector. And even if it did have one, there's
no screen to get any visual feedback from your IR remote's commands.
--
mflint
'Li
and
things are quickly fixed.
Compare that to a lot of threads recently where someone's just said
that something is sh*t. Given the amount of effort that SlimDevices
(and us third-party development folk) put into the product, you
shouldn't be surprised if someone takes offense. :-)
Matt
ot;Sucks" thread.
Agree with your other suggestions though :-)
M
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush
plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.
SBR and SBC together). Even with community involvement,
there are still finite development resources - but the incremental
software updates will surely continue.
Matthew
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush
plugin' (
hange the default Play behaviour, present a customized main menu,
remove access to 'settings', etc...
But, whether it's intuitive or not, it doesn't make the Squeezebox
"suck". A silly start to (yet another) thread.
Matthew
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin&
this (SB3) from purchase through enjoyment! I love
> this thing!!!
It will be available for purchase, but Logitech are currently
concentrating on putting the Duet (ie, Controller + Receiver) into the
distribution channels first.
Matthew
--
mflint
'LiveDepartures plugin'
(http://insi
a Squeezebox, I'd rather have
a 15 watt NAS running, than have a virtualized (or even
non-virtualized) Microslop O/S running on a machine which consumes ten
times that.
Horses for courses mate! A single headless low-power box does it for
me. :-)
* rsync.net is -very much- recommended, by the
d to the same power
supply with a physical switch, so I've never needed to use the
auto-power-off feature)
Matthew
--
mflint
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102
View this t
: Do you agree with this posting?
- Yes
- No
- In the middle
Waaah, cross-post madness!
--
mflint
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice
cruel. Suggest that delivery times after 4pm would
allow for more concentration on the day job ;-)
--
mflint
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102
View this thread: http://forums.slimd
;if we can get away with charging more, we
will" - because that makes the bean-counters happy.
'msherman' put it better than me when he said
> If you want your message heard by people who might actually be able to
> do something about it, posting here won't help.
--
mfli
ll, good luck with that. I'm not sure it'd be the right strategy for
me.
--
mflint
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthre
it I'm used to similar
pricing differences) then you need to target the right people: email
Logitech and pester your local distributors.
Alternatively, get a friendly US resident to ship you one. Buy one on
Ebay US. Or buy a 10 return flight to the States and buy your
trans
ailable is a good idea,
but it would be better as a companion to SoftSqueeze, not a
replacement.
Matthew
--
mflint
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102
View this thread: http://
There is a setting somewhere for "automatic firmware updates", so no
need to press 'Brightness'. Don't remember where the setting is
though...
(Hope that was vaguely helpful!)
Matthew
--
mflint
SB3 - SB2 - SBC - 'Audioengine' (http://www.audioengineusa.com
t; And where do I find squeeze centre 7?
http://www.slimdevices.com/downloads/nightly/latest/7.0/
--
mflint
SB3 - SB2 - SBC - 'Audioengine' (http://www.audioengineusa.com/) A5 -
Also MiscellaneousCrappyAmp - SimilarSpeakers - 'Beer'
(http://www.roosters.co.uk/) - 'IrishWhis
Just like the others have said... but if you don't want to interrupt the
currently-playing track, press and hold "Add".
The album will be added to the playlist after the current track. When
the album completes, random play will continue.
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRus
ucts_id=79) which
is smaller but apparently "duplicate[s] the signature sound of the
Audioengine 5's in a much smaller package". I suspect these may fit
well in the study, when the SBR arrives! :)
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush and LiveDepartures plugins'
(http://www.
Robin Bowes;259445 Wrote:
> mflint wrote:
> >
> > I happily use a Kurobox HG/WR for SqueezeCenter 7 with a Squeezebox
> > Controller. It has just 128Mb, but seems to perform well with my
> > collection of approximately 4000 tracks.
> >
> > It also has gi
; very fast.
I happily use a Kurobox HG/WR for SqueezeCenter 7 with a Squeezebox
Controller. It has just 128Mb, but seems to perform well with my
collection of approximately 4000 tracks.
It also has gigabit ethernet (but probably not enough processor grunt
to make use of it!)
Matt
ow of any sid-to-wav conversion tools for Windows,
your best bet might be to find a friendly linux user who would be
willing to convert your sids into mp3s or flacs.
You linked to a post which allows SlimServer to perform sid-to-wav
conversion on the fly. I wonder whether a one-off conversion might
only thing lost is incremental
improvements to firmware. Which ain't that much of a loss, considering
its maturity.
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush and LiveDepartures plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wi
nicely and
> above all it has a strong vision for the future," he said.
>
> Thursday, 10 January 2008 11:39:50
>
Also, looks like the trading community isn't convinced that this is any
more than speculation and they'
"Uh Oh" indeed - that would be horrid, unless Logitech SMS could retain
some autonomy with respect to open standards and DRM, etc.
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/in
'squeezeslave'
(https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105169)
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins)
-
zeCenter 7.
It may be that the SB Receiver will work with 6.5 (anyone?) but you'd
then have to control it via the web interface...
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignifica
x or a Mac) that folder permissions are correct.
More info would be useful... what platform are you using? Has 7.0 ever
worked? Has 6.5 been working previously? Where is the music stored?
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignifican
For playing audio CD thru mplayer, I've had some success with:
Code:
mplayer -cache 1024 cddb://
where the cache setting is necessary (on my machine) to prevent
stuttering.
And this performs a CDDB query too
--
mflint
7;s probably the best way to go. Would it be possible to get
metadata from CDDB too?
Incidentally, I'm currently listening to Aerosmith using the CDDFS
method. It just works... :-)
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist
titles would probably be something
non-descriptive like "track001.wav"
[1] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems
[2] http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/cddfs/
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.
escan still takes a while, but I do run SC7 on a KuroBox,
so it's not SqueezeCenter's fault!
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins)
--
rience (sorry, Mr Titmuss!) it's not been quite as sturdy in
its operation as the real thing, but Softsqueeze will certainly give
you a chance to give the user interface a test-drive.
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignificant
Strange... this happened to me last night (for the first time).
There I was, quietly hacking Ruby On Rails at 10:30pm, and started to
hear Scissor Sisters drifting my way from the kitchen.
Spooky...
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins
Have you tried running the SB3's wired (temporarily)? This would allow
us to rule out wireless config and/or interference issues.
M
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.p
Is this when you're playing both SB3's? The same, or different stuff? If
when both are playing, does the stuttering stop when the other player is
stopped?
Are you transcoding the music on the server? If so, does your server
have enough 'grunt' for the job?
Matthew
-
w quite
what to make of it. But they loved it, I could tell.
And I sit here now writing Perl into the early hours. On a work night.
In between placing bids on SlimP3's on eBay. (Damn!)
Keep up the good work lads and lasses...
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and
Peter;234857 Wrote:
> Empgamer wrote:
> > Personally, being a new convert I think it's excellent VFM.
> >
>
> I hate it when I miss out on another buzzword.
> What's a VFM???
>
> P.
I guessed "Value For Money".
Matthew
--
mflint
meltingrobot;233832 Wrote:
> A way to play music from a certain decade. I like the ability to pick
> by Genre, but it would be cool to also be able to play just 80's music.
Erland's "CustomBrowse" plugin will do decades.
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , Li
ption enabled
out-of-the-box.
As to the original poster's specific problem, are there other sources
of interference nearby? Other routers, microwave ovens, neighbours
using electric drills, etc?
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(h
That's disappointing. I removed half-a-dozen spam attachments from the
home page about two weeks ago. I hoped they wouldn't come back...
M :-(
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/in
ver at its old IP address.
If that's the case, you might like to try holding down 'left' button,
to search again for the SlimServer on the new network range.
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(h
It's worth remembering that the "Tunnel Destination" setting (either
"Remote" or "Local") is from the perspective of the SSH Server, not of
the PuTTY client.
(It caused me much head-scratching when I first tried tunnelling)
Matthew
--
mflint
'Goal
d Part Hardware" section of these forums.
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins)
mflint's Profile: http://forum
lso seem to remember someone (possibly Sean) explaining at
some length about how insignificant it is...
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins)
volume
to be adjusted so the peak volumes are consistent, it's not the same as
normalising -my perception- of volume.
I don't understand why :(
--
mflint
'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins'
(http://www.
Ecodigital get the thumbs-up from me.
Matthew
--
mflint
'GoalRush and LiveDepartures plugins'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins)
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/me
Well that depends what you're comparing it to...
;-)
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of my plugins
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimde
en maybe the community itself needs to find a way.
I bet there are digital picture frames with ethernet, which can be
controlled externally. I'm sure some enterprising folks could hack
together a SlimServer plugin solution to control one of those...
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
400Gb library on there! (Sure there are external firewire drives, but
it just wouldn't feel right to me)
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of my plugins
-
the "lossy" part of the
tree up to date.
Someday I'll hack the script to have it also copy mp3s to the target
location... or I'll raise an enhancement request ;-)
Best of luck with those girls, Ashmore! ;-)
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(htt
You may find that the USB or firewire enclosure may not expose all of
the drive's powersaving capabilities compared to fitting the drive
internally.
But whether that has good or bad effects on reliability is open to
debate!
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insigni
t they'd burst your budget, coming in at £200.
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of my plugins
mflint's Profile: http://forums
I use a pair of Audioengine 5's with an SB2 in my kitchen. They sound
pretty good, to a non-audiophile ear.
The only thing that bugs me is the audible "thump" as they're turned
off...
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index
I can recommend the service from _'Ecodigital'
(http://www.ecodigital.co.uk/estore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cpath=8&products_id=52)_.
(I have no connection to Ecodigital)
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/
% on SqueezeNetwork
- e) 100 % of the time on SqueezeNetwork
mrfantasy;208495 Wrote:
> I mean 100% rounding up. It's like 99%. I haven't looked at
> SqueezeNetwork in quite a while.
Yep, me too.
--
mfl
OK, I'm now feeling really bad about the threadjack... so started a new
thread:
_'RadioShark_etc'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35720)_
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins)
Shark. I'd guess it could use similar concepts to the good
work already done by the AlienBBC crew.
If any other RadioShark owners would like to collaborate in a
proof-of-concept hack, I'd be very interested.
(I'm making no promises about success, obviously!)
Matthew
--
mflint
The _'RockBox_firmware' (http://www.rockbox.org/)_ supports flac as far
as I know...
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of my plugins
-
quot;.
(For your info, trinloc didn't reply to my emails)
Unfortunately, my slimserver lives on a small PowerPC linux box (the
"KuroBox") so I'm very reluctant to invest in a new Windows box just
for USB DAB hardware support...
HEY LOGITECH! Have you ever considered m
ould be happy to collaborate on this if you have the time and
inclination!
Matthew
ps: Kaizen28> apologies for the thread-jack!
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of my plugins
--
I'd highly recommend _'ecodigital'
(http://www.ecodigital.co.uk/estore/index.php?manufacturers_id=9&main_page=index)_...
but it appears that they're completely out of stock too! :-O
(I have no connection to Ecodigital, of course)
M
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky
CatBus;202449 Wrote:
> leaving [CDs] unattended gives me the willies)
That made me giggle like a girl, imagining international readers of
this forum trying to make sense of it.
But thats probably because I'm British. Or drunk. Or both. :)
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo
ight be helpful to describe exactly how / when it
fails. When I switch on my SB2 and SB3, they go through a set process...
connecting to wireless, getting IP address, etc.
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins)
ten over the weekend
and report back.
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of my plugins
mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.c
ng a new one?
Probably - but there's no time component here either ;-) Chances are
that your old refrigerator isn't very efficient, so a new one will use
less juice... so it will save you money eventually, but you might have
to wait a while before the electricity savings are greater than the
killie99;197677 Wrote:
> Did you get hit with import duty/vat? If so how much was it?
It might be a little early to ask that question when I bought my
Kurobox from the US, the import duty bill didn't arrive until a month
after the Kuro itself!
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo
brary of approximately 2500 tracks. Besides
SlimServer, it only does NFS, SSH, NTP and (occasionally) BitTorrent.
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web pag
I successfully bought one on eBay and had it shipped to the UK from Oz.
It did require a little patience, but they do appear on eBay every so
often :-)
M
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of
of two hours looking for a USB DAB
radio thingybob with Linux support, and failed completely to find
anything that wasn't "Windows only".
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wik
. I'm not ashamed to say I've taken copies of music
from friends. If I like it, I'll buy it. If I don't, it gets sent to
/dev/null. Everyone's a winner surely?
M
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php
Are there any tell-tale messages in the Windows Event Viewer? Does the
SlimServer service depend on other services which may not be starting
in time?
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of
I successfully bought a SqueezeBox on ebay after setting up an email
alert. That way you don't need to search every day.
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web pag
Which version of slimserver? Which operating system?
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of my plugins
mflint's Profile: http://forums.
rg/wiki/Wake-on-LAN)_?
Congratulations on the new purchase - welcome to the club! :-)
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of my plugins
mflint&
It could be that both SlimServer and your Squeezeboxes have new IP
addresses, but the Squeezebox is still looking for the server at its
old address...
I'd set up networking again on the SB, by holding the [Left] button on
the remote.
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http:/
...
What happens if you press and hold [Left] on your SB remote, to set up
networking again? My SBs will scan the network for available
servers...
Matthew
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page
of
What's the date?
(I particularly like _'this_one'
(http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/lebedev.shtml)_!)
--
mflint
'Clicky-woo linky'
(http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins)
For what it's worth, I recently picked up a bargain SB2 on ebay. Keep
your eyes peeled there if you didn't want to buy new...
(The SB2 has a more 'kitchen-friendly' shape than my SB3 and I've
performed the "display-fli
2. The wireless appeared to be
faulty, but in fact the Mac address had changed to FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
and my wireless router had Mac address filtering turned on...
Easily fixed, but I was concerned for a while!
Matthew
--
mflint
-
aubuti;180471 Wrote:
> I'm thinking along similar lines for later this year.
Me too - so I've subscribed to this thread!
I was thinking of putting a power switch for the amp underneath the
wall unit, next to the SB2... but I'm open to ideas!
Ma
seanadams;179815 Wrote:
> I even saw them grind one up and put it in a x-ray spectrometer to look
> for lead, mercury, chromium etc. Fun stuff!
You won't be laughing when the pile of dust lands on your desk for
repair.
1 - 100 of 120 matches
Mail list logo