Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-08-29 Thread vincoz
Still the same things happening with 7.2 (I just tested on my iBook). Vincent. -- vincoz vincoz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14580 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.p

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-08-28 Thread jrichardson
Can you all please try the latest version of SC 7.2 to see if this issue still happens? http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html -- jrichardson James R. QA - breaking things so you don't have to jrichardson's Profile

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-27 Thread andyg
FYI, that Virgin Radio issue is known: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7814 -- andyg andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthr

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-27 Thread gian
ah, Caleb, thank you very much for you support. It's glad to know that you are there, in case we need. You know, the Squeezebox changed my life, just can't do without... -- gian gian's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-27 Thread gian
after further investigation, I found that I had severe crack & pops listening to Virgin Radio Classic Rock, but neither my ripped music database, nor other radio channels such as BBC radio 3 behaved like that. The VRCR url that CRACKS is: http://mp3-vc-128.smgradio.com/ Since I have another Ubun

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-26 Thread Caleb Crome
Hi, If you always get a pop at the same time in a track, will you send us that track, or an excerpt of that track that causes the problem? I opened the following bug. Please attach the file to this bug. You probably need to check the 'big file' button. If you have problems with that, we'll fi

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-26 Thread gian
thanks, Vincent. I have no evidence, but everything hardware is unchanged, so I guess the culprit must be SC7... I'll consider downgrading to SS6.5.5... but it's really annoying... Logitech, are you there...? -- gian gi

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-26 Thread vincoz
gian;323070 Wrote: > although I was warned not to fix things that ain't broke, I moved to SC7 > for SS6.5.4 because my Ubuntu 6.10 did not support a new printer and had > to go for 8.04. > > Well, now I have the same problem pops, cracks and pauses. > > Since I have a high end stereo chain I al

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-26 Thread CardinalFang
vincoz;319996 Wrote: > Again, any help apreciated! I suffered from pauses and very slow response times when I upgraded, eventually solved by using a MacBook Pro as a server instead of my old PowerMac, but even so it still pauses about 5 seconds into tracks occasionally. Do you have any faster ha

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-25 Thread gian
although I was warned not to fix things that ain't broke, I moved to SC7 for SS6.5.4 because my Ubuntu 6.10 did not support a new printer and had to go for 8.04. Well, now I have the same problem pops, cracks and pauses. Since I have a high end stereo chain I almost fainted hearing these cracks

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-15 Thread vincoz
Hi, Here are the few things I tried lately: - reinstalled SS 6.5.4 to check whether the playback is fine ==> it's perfect - ran the recommended uninstall procedure (which I hadn't done the first time) - reinstalled SC7.0.1 ==> the cracks still appear > decoded a flac to wav ==> the wav creates m

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-08 Thread vincoz
Phil Leigh;317871 Wrote: > have to agree with radish...if it is in the same place the file is > likely corrupt (it happens). > Try playing the file using other software.. Hi and thanks for your replies, The files play just fine on softsqueeze, I also used the flac binary in SSODS (v1.2.0) to ch

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-07 Thread Phil Leigh
vincoz;317148 Wrote: > Phil, do you mean pressing the "1" key when starting up the SB? I just > did that (but not the extra factory settings or forcing fw download > again as I had tried that earlier) but still have the problem. > > Interestingly, when playing just a single file repeatedly, the

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-07 Thread radish
If it happens at the same point in the track that points strongly to corruption of the file. Have you tried playing them with something else? -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 V

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-03 Thread vincoz
Phil Leigh;316933 Wrote: > have you reset the xilinx chip? Phil, do you mean pressing the "1" key when starting up the SB? I just did that (but not the extra factory settings or forcing fw download again as I had tried that earlier) but still have the problem. Interestingly, when playing just a

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-03 Thread Phil Leigh
have you reset the xilinx chip? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 -

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-03 Thread vincoz
radish;316627 Wrote: > Do you really hear pops or just dropouts? pops and loud cracks, as if the wires were badly connected (which they aren't). The going on pause happens with flacs only. What I haven't tried (and am relunctant to trying) is to check what happens when using lower quality mp3s.

Re: [slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-02 Thread radish
Do you really hear pops or just dropouts? -- radish radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49431 _

[slim] Bad experience upgrading to SC7 (pops and cracks and pause)

2008-07-01 Thread vincoz
Hi, I've been running slimserver 6.5.4 happily for around 6 months but my SB3 does not seem to like SC7 at all: whether it hooks up to my NAS (QNAP ts201 with the not officially supported SSODS environment) or to my iBook, I still hear some pops and cracks while listening to my flacs, and after a