This Squeeze stuff really is the coolest way to play music.
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I had a similar experience when I moved the hosting of squeezecenter to
a Linux machine from a Windows XP machine. Gone are the intermittent
pauses in the UI on the SB3. Also gone are the random incidents of
squeezecenter stopping.
Glad to hear that moving to a MAC platform had a similar
I posted a thread in the beginner forum asking about switching to SC
using a Mac instead of a PC (I was worried how well it would run on a
Mac). I got no nibbles, so last night I went ahead and did it. Because
of the location of computers in our household it makes the most sense
to have it on the
ceejay;186670 Wrote:
I'm thinking there are some misplaced zeroes here ... the ethernet
interface on the SB has a max of 100 Mbits/sec, or around 12
Mbyte/sec.
50 Mbits/sec, or 50,000 kbits/sec, is a more likely result...
Ceejay
I meant 500 KBytes/sec. Which was the maximum shown in
I've just installed powerline networking to get around a wireless
performance problem I was having - took 5 mins to install and works
well. The specifications say that they can't be plugged into surge
protected extension blocks though.
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jsunandmax;186495 Wrote:
agentsmith, how do you like this? what kind of actual bandwidth are you
getting? did you try wireless first then arrive at the PoE solution?
I tried another brand of Homeplug (Aztec) and the connection kept
dropping off when I tried at home so I ended up returning
agentsmith;18 Wrote:
I do know that when tested with the SB3 LAN test plugin, I get 500,000
MegaBytes per seconds with 100% success rate most of the time. On a
bad day it does sometimes drop to 70% with 500,000 MBps though.
I'm thinking there are some misplaced zeroes here ... the
Good to hear you're pleased and having fun, and I don't mean to burst
your bubble, just to help...
jsunandmax;186363 Wrote:
Last weekend i picked up another 750gb, so now i have full redundancy.
So nice to feel my data (music only) is backed up!
What would happen if:
- the Infrant's power
Mark Lanctot wrote:
A good, practical solution is the use of an external drive in a USB
enclosure with periodic manual backups. The further away you store
the drive, the better protected you'll be. You could back up over your
network as well, and you can automate the process, although that
alextegg;186382 Wrote:
I have found that 320k bit rate with VBR gives insignificant difference
to Lossless formats, but with a significant space saving. Now that
discs are so much cheaper if I were starting again I would probably go
lossless to future proof myself, but not because I could
What were you ripping to?
I experimented extensively with options before ripping my collection,
which I play back through my Naim solution.
I have found that 320k bit rate with VBR gives insignificant difference
to Lossless formats, but with a significant space saving. Now that
discs are so
jsunandmax;186363 Wrote:
BAM! It has been working SOLID, like a dream for 2 weeks straight! No
resets or dropped connections, no hitching etc.
I had a similar experience when I upgraded my PC. Going from a 1.33GHz
AMD to a 1.87GHz Intel with the same amt of RAM (512), shouldn't have
I feel your pain on the 're-ripping' thing. Thankfully(?) my ex wife
stole about 1000 CD's in my divorce so I only have maybe 80 left, so it
wasn't TOO bad but still took forever. LOL!
As mentioned, i ripped to .flac format. For playing on portable
devices, i'm going to setup that Perl script
agentsmith, how do you like this? what kind of actual bandwidth are you
getting? did you try wireless first then arrive at the PoE solution?
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jsunandmax;186495 Wrote:
agentsmith, how do you like this? what kind of actual bandwidth are you
getting? did you try wireless first then arrive at the PoE solution?
FYI - power over ethernet is entirely different from powerline
networking (which is what agentsmith seems to be using).
thanks, i meant powerline networkin not PoE
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Just thought i would post my experience here and share with
everyone
I purchased my Squeezebox about a month ago and hooked it up to my
single, older (5 years) PC wireless to a bedroom system. I immediatly
had two problems:
1. years of .mp3 collecting was worthless when amplified over a
I am interested in a similar solution. Just wondering if you could
share your experience a bit more:
1. Speed - How do you find the performance, in terms of responding to
your remote control and to the web interface?
2. Ease of use and install. Do you need to well versed in Linux to
install
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