BController.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84345
___
.
>
> Just one more, does the classic have coax digital out
>
Yes.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.sli
usch;593816 Wrote:
> No. I would even rather buy another SB2 than a Classic. :)
I like the $10 alarm clock look still... Especially in the bedroom
where my SB2 replaced a $10 alarm clock...
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwar
if everyone cancelled their TV
service and streamed video on Comcast internet service... their pricing
model would then change...
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11
exile;593793 Wrote:
> with all due respect snarlydwarf, I think you're wrong.
You can think what you want... people want local news and information.
You're not going to see that from Hulu or Youtube or iTunes.
>
> i too work in the television business. i'm an edit
ce is out the window: if it can't get
a million views it's not worth it.
It will be Radio of the 80's all over again, except marketed as choice.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice
x27;s and actually knows the time... the older players have no clue what
they're displaying, so the server had to format it right for them.)
Settings -> Screen -> Date & Time -> Time Format -> 24 hours
--
snarlydwarf
--
buurin;592363 Wrote:
>
> Very odd.
Maybe I'm paranoid... but wonder if TSA decided to ensure the batteries
were batteries and ripped it apart to check.
I mean it is now illegal to ship printer cartridges via air
transport so who knows.
--
e note: how could a boom "forget" its original MAC address?
The MAC address on the ip3k devices is in software. What happens is
something corrupts memory and writes over the MAC. There is at least
one rare bug that does this but no on has fig
would sort with every other album you tagged with the same artist
name... ie, it would be tossed in with every compilation, even though
it is NOT a compilation.)
'Soundtrack' is not an artist name either: it's perhaps a genre o
blank- on such things would kick in the compilation-check
and make it in the second group.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevic
Muele;588722 Wrote:
>
>
> Any ideas what can be wrong?
It should work fine... my Radio streams from home.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
Vi
store would be a mess if it was filled
with every tribute album).
So Album Artist overrides any sort of compilation check: you've said,
"Yes, I know this looks like a dozen artists, but please file it over
there".
Unless you override that override with COMPILATION to say "yeah
e. Do you have to purchase each
> new version or do you get the updates free?
Not flatterman but updates are free.
And, yes, SqueezeCommander is slick enough I use it despite somewhat
shady wifi in places at hom
oing to suck anyway...
ie, either one works fine... choose the one that fits your need. My
Radio gets the most use of any SB of mine, but then it sits next to me
at work.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://f
Squeezebox introduced me to my wife (i think that means I win... :P)
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevice
. Miles ahead of
the free ones, for sure. Nice work.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sho
eal behind random) without the long load times of an actual list
of all your tracks.
(And, of course, as you add music, it will automatically add it to the
playlists that it qualifies for... not to mention you get playlists
like "Not recently pl
tand business any more...)
Logitech Canadian Sales
2355 Skymark Avenue, Suite 100
Mississauga, Ontario, L4W 4Y6
Canada
+1 905-273-4571
Monday-Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm EST
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf'
does, it's still not best to rely on a remote site for
alarms... If your router crashes or your ISP sucks at the alarm time,
you'll have no alarm.)
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdev
a TV broadcaster that also happens to own a
cable company and at one point was one of the largest cable companies in
the US before selling out most of their operations to TCI... I still
don't watch much TV.]
--
snarlydwarf
being seated all the way.. it gets a bit tight and feels snug when it
isn't. Don't hammer it in, of course, but press it a bit more firmly
and it should seat fully. Also not much of an issue in reality since
most people aren't unplugging
Mark White;584383 Wrote:
>
> --Whenever I unplug or "jiggle" the RCA cords at the ports, the device
> powered off
>
In addition to resetting the Xilinx as others posted, the above is
usually as simple as pressing the power plug in all the
uld probably benefit no
one but Erland since no one has gone anywhere near the complexity of
his plugins. (Sorry, Erland, but you know that's true... it is a
compliment though: your work is so good no one else needs an API since
no on
ing BestBuy pretend to care about customers... so I'll just buy
from Amazon or direct from Logitech, but, yeah getting things in stores
would be useful for them, but I can understand not wanting to pay for
shelf space and pay more for "go
c-systems/devices/4707
The Classic was discontinued a year ago: the VFD is no longer made.
Whether you think that's a loss or not, Logitech simply can not make
them without that VFD.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf
hing about blame...only the guilty hear blame.
How witty. How is this: Insane people talk to the walls while
believing they are talking directly to God.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevic
anymore.
Nor do I. You do realize this is a community board, Not An Official
Logitech Support Channel, right?
You may as well go to a local car club and rant about how GM and the
unions are destroying the world. You'd get much more useful responses
if you actually ex
haps users that don't see slights in every thing?
This forum has NEVER been an official support forum, You know what
changed? They ADDED an official support forum on the logitech site.
I don't understand why you think that is bad.
--
snarlydwarf
-
, that would work best as an
> alarm clock. I have an old sb1 or sb2 that I'm using with slim server,
> which I want to keep seperate from the alarm clock. Thanks
I believe the alarm issues with the radio are only when u
ds
despite the technically analog middle.
But good work on Vortetbox anyway. By all accounts it's a great
product and the appliances are cute.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://fo
rPlayers plugin to 'send' or 'fetch' a
playlist from one player to another, or even remotely control the
volume on one.
I use the 'send playlist' reasonably often when moving from room to
room.
--
snarlydwarf
site much better.
/stating the obvious...
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80169
spaper ads..)
Sadly I bought my radio before that price war, but then, I got a couple
months of pleasure from it before the price war so it's all good.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevic
here ever they wish
in the 2.5Ghz range.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81072
Metazargo;566670 Wrote:
> OK, I gave up my DAB+ kitchen radio against a Squeezebox Radio.
Now to see how long before it breeds.
Squeezeboxes are Tribbles.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profi
ill protect you. It may even act like a
giant fuse and protect you that way.
Many 'surge suppressors' suck: they are a simple MOV across the line
and the MOV has a limited lifetime and will give no warning when it has
used up its useful life. It will just cease to protect you... a d
> I realize there are many questions to answer and that this is a huge
> functional area, so feel free to answer in several posts if the forum
> post max length feels too limited. :-)
What about if my brain just overloads and I have
westom;566361 Wrote:
> When someone posts that nasty, that dumb, that uneducated, and
> incessantly, then being polite to an asshole is useless.
>
Exactly. PLONK.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's
tecting your hardware in almost all nasty conditions (if
it blows up the meter on the house, well, then, it may kill your UPS
too.. but then you have a $50 fuse that would likely save your
computer).
--
snarlydwarf
sna
r supply is not all that
regulated. It is based on certain presumptions of the quality of the
input power. That quality goes to hell when the power drops.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf'
se my music.
I don't worry about the Windows machine: it's been dead for ages
anyway... :)
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
Vi
t.
For a VortexBox appliance, probably any old cheap UPS will do you fine:
the current draw is not much at all, so you don't need a huge UPS.
Stick with a brandname, but a cheap APC should be fine.
--
snarlydwarf
Turn off bridging.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=
Phil Leigh;564718 Wrote:
> You must have some shortcuts.
> do a search for *.lnk files...
Or perhaps playlists that refer to files outside of that area.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Pr
k numbers or
you will find that at the worst possible moment you won't be able to
visit some site.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View th
ing track of where
multiple
players were in the output stream, but I'm not at the moment.
The newer players 'mostly' use HTTP with some low level stuff passed
back as slimproto,
(which is documented in the server docs). The stream, however, was
your question, and that is
just
audio1;562943 Wrote:
> Thanks for your comments snarlydwarf and funkstar,
> As I look towards updating my music playback system in the near future,
> I want to thoroughly understand the fundamental configuration options.
> It appears to me that central to the choice of
> ha
e client, why even bother with NFS: just
attach the hard drive directly to the "player". Adding NFS or SMB
seems to just complicate things more with a single player.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile
asked for it, but until Pandora makes it
available, nothing Logitech can do about it. Contact Pandora.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this threa
Easy enough to put just one back, but again I am
> thinking FacReset would restore all menus to default.
Except on the Boom, all the menus are on the server... you'd have to
delete the player from the server.
--
snarlydwarf
-
pski;559329 Wrote:
> Where?
>
> How do I get the "current" (not nightly version?)
>
Squeezeplay only exists in nightly versions, it's still (and may always
be) betaware.
The only 'release' versions are those builds for SqueezeOS (Touch,
Rad
something similar back, you'll need to upgrade SBS to get
the Staff Picks lists.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sh
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=
at, then that is your problem: have some
sort of firewall installed like ZoneAlarm? is your server on a vpn?
If your server hides from the SB2, then, well, the sb2 even with the
correct ip will not be able to connect to your server.
--
snarlydwarf
-
ot;soandso is on your ignore list, click here to see
this post" instead of the message.
And, yes, ignoring some people is great for your sanity.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.
y that is true: but 'SBS' includes 'tinysbs' or
whataver you want to call it (as well as mysb).
I don't think anyone has made a secret of that.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://f
lugin list, again, the plugin installer is much more
useful.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79790
mware (<=15) had a bug.
Some modder decided to fix it in hardware.
The bug was fixed in software at v16 and later.
So, all you would be doing is (in theory) making things worse, assuming
you believe polarity is discernable.
Do you have a modded S
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22118
In short, it's nonsense.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimd
is
sufficiently loud to enjoy.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79734
http://www.kgoradio.com/listenlive.asp says...
http://provisioning.streamtheworld.com/pls/KGOAM.pls
And it works for me.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
each.
Old X10 type things had issues "Crossing" between the two sides. I
would think powerline stuff would have similar issues, but I don't
know.
Have you tried simply changing channels on your router to 1 or 11 and
see if that moves you away from any neighbor noise?
--
snarlydwar
less channel on the router: most
routers come defaulted to channel 6. Which means most of your
neighbors probably left it there and they are on channel 6, too... Try
1 or 11, as far from them as possible so you won't
shed' connections?
In psuedofirewallese:
allow from internal -> external
allow from external -> internal established
deny all
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use
lorer or SQL
'order by' clauses or file selection dialogue boxes on your PC...)
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.c
e a leading 0 ("093") of if
that is too geeky, " 93".. See, a space will sort before numbers, so "
93" will show up before "101".
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Pr
nal (in order to change volume they need to
do that).
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79156
has been pointed out here before, that empty slot in the product
line would have killed Slim Devices. Logitech has much deeper pockets
and can weather out a product shortage much better.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Pro
t questions for the "good old" squeezebox?
>
> I only find headings for the never Logitech versions.
>
> Thank you!
Here is fine.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://
losely at your tags.
There are a variety of 'sort' tags ("ARTISTSORTORDER", "TSOP", etc)
that define sorting, which is useful to override server guesses on what
words to eliminate. (Ie, the classic "The The" from the 80's...).
--
snarlydwarf
---
ast, its actually not bad at all for latency since
it never leaves their network.
I get sad when I take the radio away for a weekend and forget to bring
it back on Monday.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums
d until there was enough utilization to make the packet
loss/retransmit noticable and the network would die a nasty death.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
as just one wireless hop, and if your
usable bandwidth is low due to noise, a flac could push it over the
edge. (m4a's are transcoded on the server, and sent as flac, but since
flac itself is being jerky, I don't think your problem is transcoding,
but transmission.
g "to bring forward"?
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.
,
they are really against the bar on features they can add in the limited
resources of the Boom and other ip3k devices. Just not enough
memory/flash/cpu to do much more.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://fo
it at 500. For whatever reason, mine's still
there.)
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78741
___
my experience with it. We had three of the things,
they all got written off and given away.
What is your experience with SonicWalls?
Now back to the killfile you go.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Pro
e who sell DRM -- they have contracts in place
that list the terms of playback, and would have to define exactly how a
Squeezebox fits into the scheme of limits... which is hard to do when
you already have signed contracts in place. No one wants to
rene
asons (someone would have to get a copy of the drm
decoder that was possible to use within SBS), but also for legal reasons
on deciding what devices can play content.
It sucks, yes, but, then, DRM isn't there to make your life better,
rather it is specific
ill reduce your usable bandwidth.)
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/sh
pping department for Logitech so it's unlikely anyone
here has a clue or cares about this.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http:
hellbringer616;541649 Wrote:
> Where might that be located? the sonicwall has a pretty big web
> interface..
It should be under 'TCP Settings'
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://f
hellbringer616;541649 Wrote:
> Where might that be located? the sonicwall has a pretty big web
> interface..
It should be under 'TCP Settings'
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://f
that is, by default set
to 5 minutes.
It may be that the connection to MySB is idle enough that the SonicWall
is closing that connection, which may do bad things like drop the other
connection eventually.
--
snarlydwarf
s
will all explode" sort of thing.
>
> I sadly can't touch some of the features in the sonicwall as thats
> something only the head admin can do. I'll bring it up to him.
>
> Any settings that i c
ot;go get a stream from this URL" but... you need a server to
do that much.
How are you telling the SB to connect to a URL without SBS?
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.sli
s a
limit to the number of codecs that can be supported, especially on ip3k
platforms. And when DRM is involved, that code can't simply be moved to
the server.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://for
TV started adding color
programming.
"I want it to work!" is not about to shoehorn software into places it
can't fit.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?use
plugins like Erland's...
(I think those date to around 6.5 or so.)
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/show
I think it would be a support nightmare.
Adding KDE/Gnome/WINE would raise the support level needed.
There isn't a license issue with redistributing WINE. It's GPL.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf'
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=
calenb2;538475 Wrote:
> My next step is to figure out how to setup a "Master." I'll look for the
> setting tonight, any tips?
It's not a setting. It's whichever player you sync to.
--
snarlydwarf
---
7;, they will
all wake up and play in sync.
(Having done this accidentally where the bedroom/livingroom players
were synced and both alarmed in the morning... I hit 'off' on the
bedroom player and the living room
pski;537779 Wrote:
> OK but does it work on a SB3?
>
Yes.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showt
less your server happens to be on
the real internet instead of behind a router.
That may very well be your problem, since your players will most likely
be 192.168 something, and 127.0.0.1 is the local machine.
--
snarlydwarf
--
ere will be a SuperTouch or whatever. But why deprive yourself of
present and near-term (for some definition of that... who knows if it
will be a year or 4?) in hopes of that future product, which will also
be superceded at some point...
If you have the money, choose the player that suits your nee
lients take more server work), I wouldn't worry
about "stepchild" products.
Now if only other Consumer Electronic products had such a great
lifespan.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf'
lity they have to the challenges:
>
> http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16046
>
How does that relate to your Boom?
The cited bug is filed against the radio.
--
snarlydwarf
snarlydwarf's Profile
it may very well have NOTHING to do with firmware on your
players but more likely changes at MySB.COM and/or slacker Your
overstatements of the problem only detract for making a proper
diagnosis.)
--
snarlydwarf
snarl
1 - 100 of 1157 matches
Mail list logo