maggior;682445 Wrote:
I'm not afraid of rooting or hacking - I just can't be bothered at this
point. My free time is at a premium these days and I'd much rather
spend it doing something productive.
I'm a bit confused. My Kindle Fire arrived yesterday and had both
Orange and Squeeze
mlsstl;687735 Wrote:
I'm a bit confused. My Kindle Fire arrived yesterday and had both Orange
and Squeeze Commander running very quickly.
I had to install the Slideme' store app. Then I bought Orange (99
cents) and Squeeze Commander ($4.99) and both installed quickly. The
only change was
I honestly don't understand all of the I won't go there .. comments.
As if hacking your Fire is against the law or something. Or that it is
hard. It couldn't have been easier (it literally took me fifteen
minutes and I didn't break a sweat). And the Amazon commandos aren't
going to knock your
I'm not afraid of rooting or hacking - I just can't be bothered at this
point. My free time is at a premium these days and I'd much rather
spend it doing something productive.
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Rich
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Setup: 2 SB3s, 4 Booms, 1 Duet, 1 Receiver, 1 Touch, iPeng on iPod
Touch, SqueezeCommander
maggior;682445 Wrote:
I'm not afraid of rooting or hacking - I just can't be bothered at this
point. My free time is at a premium these days and I'd much rather
spend it doing something productive.
I understand. My time is pretty tight as well. But it only takes about
30 minutes to do.
maggior;681523 Wrote:
Sadly, the Kindle Fire seems to be a better squeezebox controller and
player than an eReader.
Cheers!
It is what it is. I bought my wife a Kindle Touch, as she found the
backlighting very tiring. And I must also admit that extended reading
on the Fire is annoying (but
tonyptony;681173 Wrote:
The NT has a great screen; it also has real hard buttons where the KF
does not.
How many hard buttons does the Nook Tablet have? I sure don't see
many.
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seems fair to want to save money but from the looks of this thread it's
taking a lot of energy to figure out a replacement for ipeng.
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maggior;681619 Wrote:
I must be missing something with these comments above.
Squeezecommander works just as well (better in some ways) than iPeng.
You can easily install it by registering with and installing the
marketplace app at SlideMe.org. No rooting, no special permissions,
all
kc5f;681409 Wrote:
I use the Android app ASTRO as my file manager on my phone. One thing
it does is create backups of all or selected apps, and they back up as
APK files on the memory card. I just email them from there. Some
work, some don't (if they require phone access, for example),
I must be missing something with these comments above.
Squeezecommander works just as well (better in some ways) than iPeng.
You can easily install it by registering with and installing the
marketplace app at SlideMe.org. No rooting, no special permissions,
all stock!
At $200, it's a heck of
For versatility and apps why not just focus on an ipad instead? Ipeng on
ipad is about all you'll ever need for an sb controller.
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exile;681515 Wrote:
seems fair to want to save money but from the looks of this thread it's
taking a lot of energy to figure out a replacement for ipeng.
Like many things, probably a lot more energy in discussion than in
actually doing.
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maggior;681655 Wrote:
If you'd like, I'll see if I can find a free app on there to validate
that installing from SlideMe works on the Fire.
I may head over to BestBuy later today to try out the Fire, but if you
have a chance to confirm SlideMe access that would be very encouraging.
Thanks!
JJZolx;681665 Wrote:
How many hard buttons does the Nook Tablet have? I sure don't see many.
They both have power buttons but only the Nook Tablet has hard buttons
for volume +/- (upper right edge in your picture) and the n home
button below the screen.
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maggior;681619 Wrote:
You can easily install it by registering with and installing the
marketplace app at SlideMe.org. No rooting, no special permissions,
all stock!
@maggior, are you able to confirm this is still true for Kindle Fire
after recent 6.2.1 firmware update? Thanks.
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Squeezecommander (the paid squeezebox controller app) is very capable
and is just as good as iPeng. I had used iPeng on my iPod Touch for
about a year before I got my Xoom. There are actually some aspects of
SqueezeCommander that I perfer.
On my Kindle Fire, I was able to install
exile;681506 Wrote:
why not just focus on an ipad instead?...because these devices cost half what
an iPad does. Plus, some people
just don't want to buy into Apple ecosystem.
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maggior;681431 Wrote:
OK, this looks promising. I'll have to give this a go - thanks for the
tip!
My friend ?
Why is synchronize so difficult?
You would think we would figure out interfaces. Oh, WAIT ! What do you
mean the traditional do not understand interfaces. I sure do. They have
Apesbrain;681660 Wrote:
I may head over to BestBuy later today to try out the Fire, but if you
have a chance to confirm SlideMe access that would be very encouraging.
Thanks!
I reinstalled slideme bandit was fine. I was also able to download and
install an app from there. If you decide to
My Fire has 6.2.1. I believe it had this installed when it was
purchased.
I downloaded and installed the SlideMe app. I browsed apps but didn't
purchase anything.
If you'd like, I'll see if I can find a free app on there to validate
that installing from SlideMe works on the Fire.
Regarding
firedog;681805 Wrote:
Can you for instance display album art and the album/song title and read
the text from that distance?
Maybe, but I think it's more likely you'll use the Kindle Fire (or Nook
Tablet) at arm's length. The idea is to leave your Squeezebox player as
is and keep the Fire on
I agree with apesbrain that you are more likely to have a tablet sitting
in front of you rather than sittin in a dock or stand by your
entertainment system.
Artwork will certainly be shown larger, but the text would not be
readable at a significant distance. The controller apps aren't set up
Apesbrain;681931 Wrote:
Maybe, but I think it's more likely you'll use the Kindle Fire (or Nook
Tablet) at arm's length. The idea is to leave your Squeezebox player
as is and keep the Fire on the coffee table in front of your listening
spot or on the sofa next to you. Instead of using the
Just read that the updated Fire is open to the Google Android App store,
so you can download and install apps from there, and not just from the
Amazon store.
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GIK Acoustics Room Treatments. Tranquil PC fanless server running
Vortexbox OS; SB Touch slaved to Empirical Audio Pace Car;
The article says, that the website is not blocked anymore, but
installing Apps from the market still does not seem to be possible
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Did you know: *'SqueezePlayer' (www.squeezeplayer.com)* will stream all
your music to your Android device. Take your music everywhere!
Remote
My wife has a Kindle Fire that was given to her as a gift. I'm sad to
say that the device is a huge dissapointment. If I had bought it
myself, I would have returned it.
It's a real shame. I think Amazon is great - I'm a Prime member. I
have had a Kindle Keyboard for a year now and still love
After researching it, we bought a Nook Tablet and love it. The only
advantage I've read to rooting it is to access the Android Marketplace
directly, but even without rooting you can access the Amazon Market for
more apps and better prices, including free. Beyond that, I've taken
apps I have on
I rooted my Kindle Fire after Amazon pushed out the 6.2.1 OS update. I
then installed the Android Market app and have installed several apps
from the market. My understanding is that many apps can be sideloaded
onto the KF or installed via SlideMe.
To my knowledge, the Kindle Fire has never
kc5f;681316 Wrote:
Beyond that, I've taken apps I have on my Android phone and emailed the
apk files to myself, which I then open and load directly onto the
(unrooted) Nook. So I don't see the lack of Android Marketplace as a
killer.
How did you get the APK files off your phone to email
Apesbrain;681178 Wrote:
@tonyptony, thanks for all that. More info is absolutely better as
I'm just learning about both devices. You don't need to root either
device to install a SB controller app, right? Also, both will install
the SlideMe app? Thanks.
I honestly don't remember if
kc5f;681316 Wrote:
Beyond that, I've taken apps I have on my Android phone and emailed the
apk files to myself, which I then open and load directly onto the
(unrooted) Nook. So I don't see the lack of Android Marketplace as a
killer.
kc5f, has your NT been upgraded to 1.4.1 yet? I wasn't
JJZolx;681184 Wrote:
Is it necessary to keep the Tablet's OS updated? Can't it just be left
alone?
A fair question, JJ. That's what I'm doing right now. The only risk is
if any of the content unique to a given tablet (in the case of NT, the
BN store and Netflix HD) are of interest to the
maggior;681334 Wrote:
How did you get the APK files off your phone to email them? I can't
find them on my Xoom and I'm assuming it's because, without being
rooted, I don't have access to the directory that contains the APK
files.
I use the Android app ASTRO as my file manager on my phone.
tonyptony;681358 Wrote:
kc5f, has your NT been upgraded to 1.4.1 yet? I wasn't sure if even the
local install technique would still be possible after that.
I haven't loaded anything new on the Nook in the past few weeks, so it
may be possible that I can't do it any more. But I see the folks
kc5f;681409 Wrote:
I use the Android app ASTRO as my file manager on my phone. One thing
it does is create backups of all or selected apps, and they back up as
APK files on the memory card. I just email them from there. Some
work, some don't (if they require phone access, for example),
I would like to purchase one of these but I can't decide which. I've
played with the Nook at my local BN and liked it. The Fire is cheaper
but I haven't experienced one hands-on yet. I know I'll use it to
control my Squeezeboxes. (Having implemented Soundcheck's TT mod my
Touch no longer has
I have the NT and it works very well as a SB controller. I'm using the
free Logitech app right now and I'm having no troubles with it. As to
which one would be better, I'm not sure. The NT entered the market as a
potential sweetheart tablet. It was quickly rooted and showed signs of
having a
@tonyptony, thanks for all that. More info is absolutely better as
I'm just learning about both devices. You don't need to root either
device to install a SB controller app, right? Also, both will install
the SlideMe app? Thanks.
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tonyptony;681173 Wrote:
I have until Jan 31st to return the NT. If the gang at XDA Developers
haven't figured out by then how to permanently get around the NT
restrictons I may return it. I don't want to have to keep checking in
every time BN releases an OS update, hoping the team will find
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