MelonMonkey;209904 Wrote:
Having volume NOT supported at all directly by the player is a valid
design decision, but not a very good one. Do people really use the volume
control ?
I'm probably missing someting obvious, but isn't the SB always
connected to some sort of receiver/amplifier that
erland;210003 Wrote:
It could of course be that you don't want to use several remote controls
(SB + Receiver remote), but other than that I can't really see the
purpose of a fast volume control on the SB itself.
That's the reason I use the SB remote volume on my living room system,
and I have
MelonMonkey;209904 Wrote:
Having volume NOT supported at all directly by the player is a valid
design decision, but not a very good one. It is in fact the easy way
out.
I'm sure all the folks who use the SB remote with the IRBlaster plugin
to control the volume of their amps are relieved to
snarlydwarf;209107 Wrote:
With things other than Volume, of course, it leads to a lot more
flexibility in plugins. Pressing 5 on my remote rates a track as
having 5 stars using the TrackStat plugin... There is no way that sort
of complexity could be in the SB hardware itself.
Sure it
Just turned on my SB3 for the first time today to find that its acting
strangely. Listening to Squeeze Network, Radio Paradise.
It seems to be intermittently unresponsive to the remote, particularly
when attempting to change volume setting, with either no or, more
usually, delayed response to
Furry;209079 Wrote:
Edit: I've just tried connecting to Slim Server instead, then to RP via
that, and oddly it seems to be etter, more responsive. Is it possible
that something about being connected to SN can requires more
'horsepower' from the SB3, so 'distracting' it from my remote
snarlydwarf;209090 Wrote:
The SB doesnt process volume commands itself: it sends it to the current
server (either your local Slimserver or Squeezenetwork), which figures
out what key you pressed and what you want to do, then sends back
please turn the volume down to 38 to the Squeezebox.
It is a pretty typical thin client type design. It does give numerous
advantages in flexibility.
For example, suppose you had a Way Cool UltraDAC and PreAMP. Therefore
you wanted to use the digital outs of the SB to the DAC, and use the
volume of the Preamp... but didn't want to have Yet
