Re: [slim] Logitech

2010-08-29 Thread erland
e other way around. > You you please express your feelings where Logitech employees listen, at the official Logitech forum: http://forums.logitech.com/ The community members reading this forum can agree with you but we can't really do much to help the situation. -- erland Erland Isaksso

Re: [slim] Logitech

2010-08-30 Thread erland
you if there is a solution available and cares for your situation but don't have the power to do anything if there isn't a solution available, you want no 2 :-) -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets&#x

Re: [slim] Logitech Revue with Google TV

2010-09-02 Thread erland
based model. I'm clearly not within the Revue target group as my only interest in it is related to the possibility of SBS/Squeezebox support. For this kind of usage I'm clearly better of with a Squeezebox Touch. AppleTV on the other hand got me interested immediately, mostly

Re: [slim] Spotify is (soon) available for Sonos - What about Squeezebox?

2010-09-06 Thread erland
gin for people that's able to use it on their system. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future pre

Re: [slim] Logitech Revue with Google TV

2010-09-06 Thread erland
ven more geeky than SBS and MythTV in that short hands-on video. I don't want a computer in my living room, I want a TV, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets&#x

Re: [slim] Any hope of a Twitter Plugin?

2010-09-07 Thread erland
scribe how to do things with the Custom Scan plugin: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Setup_support_for_custom_tags -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my ans

[slim] Any jazz music lovers ?

2010-09-10 Thread erland
So, is there anyone that wants to be part of this ? -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future pre

Re: [slim] Any jazz music lovers ?

2010-09-13 Thread erland
ls, please send me a PM or mail with a description about your background. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to enc

Re: [slim] Thrills, pills and NAS headaches.

2010-09-14 Thread erland
get a high-end model. With a high-end NAS you have to pay for other features which aren't useful if you are only using it as a music server. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdev

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-09-14 Thread erland
7;t really that much to show your appreciation. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on th

Re: [slim] SqueezeBox Classic and obsolescence

2010-09-14 Thread erland
instead of continue encouraging MS to produce its crap. ;-) -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage fu

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-09-17 Thread erland
eveloper will continue to change my music discovery experience today and in the future. Still, if some people prefer to wait and don't want to "waste" any money on encouragement, we should accept that. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksso

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-17 Thread erland
to offer it through my repository instead of having your own, just let me know and I'll add it to my repository file under your nickname. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.

Re: [slim] Any jazz music lovers ?

2010-09-17 Thread erland
ling experience and have some spare time and is interested in getting more involved, let me know via PM or mail. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). I

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-09-19 Thread erland
ere ugly but I might have missed something ? http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=567014#post567014 -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread erland
urse, if you just want a user defined Now Playing screen, you can also design own without any programming at all using Custom Clock and Custom Clock Helper. See the wiki for more information: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Custom_Clock_applet -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage&#

Re: [slim] Now Playing screen for classical music

2010-09-19 Thread erland
ome more work it got enhanced to be a generic configurable screen on Controller/Touch/Radio. The current version can even be configured to replace the standard Now Playing screen. I would like a different name on it today but it feels a bit late for that. -- erland Erland Isaksson

Re: [slim] Any jazz music lovers ?

2010-09-21 Thread erland
t; system... Your comments helps a lot, it's exactly this kind of stuff I'm interested to hear about. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland).

Re: [slim] iPeng on iPad - How should it look like?

2010-09-22 Thread erland
Can we please get on topic again ? Let's use this thread to discuss how you would like iPeng on iPad to look like and what features you want. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.

Re: [slim] Any jazz music lovers ?

2010-09-24 Thread erland
icians, but also sound engineers, > composers, etc. > They have API (read-only, I believe); I wonder if it gets you > contributors too: > http://www.discogs.com/help/api > Yes I know about discogs and I suspect we will implement an integration towards their API. -- erland

Re: [slim] Any jazz music lovers ?

2010-09-24 Thread erland
user interface where you can manage the metadata, so we aren't limited to what can be put inside tags. It's more a question about how much metadata it's realistic that users are willing to setup. Import possibilities from good metadata sites will of course make it l

Re: [slim] Your members are VERY positive but...

2010-10-01 Thread erland
t are still available on these forums but they mostly reads the beta and developer related sections. We all feel your frustration and sometimes feels the same way, it's just that we would love you to tell it to Logitech directly instead of us because we already know about most of these prob

Re: [slim] Your members are VERY positive but...

2010-10-01 Thread erland
res some effort by Logitech to get there. Let's face it, most people really like things that just works, on longer terms most people are also prepared to pay for this. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets

Re: [slim] Hail Mary time for Logitech with its Google TV?

2010-10-01 Thread erland
it. When my parent visits and want to turn on the news with my Harmony remote controlling MythTV they are just not able to do it. I personally think Apple did the right choice to skip the cable/satelite box integration and instead move slowly and try to focus on making the content producers u

Re: [slim] What should be in the next version of SqueezePad ?

2010-10-11 Thread erland
ges from LastFM.com on its now playing screen through the Custom Clock applet and Song Info plugin. Something similar on Squeezepad would be great. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.sl

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-10-12 Thread erland
27;t specific to SqueezePad. If I remember correctly there was some additional perl modules which were available on Michael's site that had to be installed manually to make it work correctly. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Develop

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-10-13 Thread erland
logs. Or is this something new in 7.6 ? -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-10-13 Thread erland
he code. > Some stuff is cached in memory on the server side, for example the list of albums. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped

Re: [slim] is there a way to push audio to the squeezebox?

2010-10-13 Thread erland
Wave Input plugin might also be useful: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35718 -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer hel

Re: [slim] ANNOUNCE: iPeng for iPad - Your Squeezebox Remote Gets Big

2010-10-15 Thread erland
e/iPod Touch and when it's now also available on the iPad it takes these products to the next level. As the number one Squeezebox control application, iPeng is now back among the 6 iPad dock icons on the bottom of my iPad. I can't wait to see how this will evolve in the future. Really g

Re: [slim] ANNOUNCE: iPeng for iPad - Your Squeezebox Remote Gets Big

2010-10-16 Thread erland
king about a lot of money compared to all other stuff you buy every week. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to

Re: [slim] Announcing SqueezePad - the first dedicated iPad App to controll your SqueezeBoxen !

2010-10-18 Thread erland
ome room. > I'm not sure how intuitive it's going to be but maybe you could show the most used menus as shortcut buttons instead of making them configurable ? Kind of similar to how the Windows start menu works. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erlan

Re: [slim] ANNOUNCE: iPeng for iPad - Your Squeezebox Remote Gets Big

2010-10-18 Thread erland
tion in portrait mode but when I have the iPad in the stand I also want it to work as a picture frame and for that usage landscape mode is better than portrait mode. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets'

Re: [slim] Hail Mary time for Logitech with its Google TV?

2010-10-18 Thread erland
is one issue but is there more ? -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this foru

Re: [slim] Hail Mary time for Logitech with its Google TV?

2010-10-19 Thread erland
players or something else ? -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answer helped you and you like to encourage future presence on this forum and/or third

Re: [slim] ANNOUNCE: iPeng for iPad - Your Squeezebox Remote Gets Big

2010-10-19 Thread erland
pippin;583855 Wrote: > Why is that? Most photos tends to be in landscape orientation and using landscape makes them cover a larger part of the screen. -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http

Re: [slim] Custom Browse Menu - No Alphabetical Sorting In Albums Sub-Menus

2012-04-28 Thread erland
kiwibrucie wrote: > > @ Onimod : Does alphabetical ordering on artist actually work for you > with "default ordering by artist" set in "custom browse/album" menu > management...it certainly doesn't for me? I know it works with > "default ordering by Title". > "Sort by artist" means sort by

[slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-04-28 Thread erland
To me it feels like my Squeezebox experience hasn't really evolved much during the last year. When thinking back, I remember things like: - SqueezePad announcement - iPeng for iPad announcement - Triode's Spotify plugin announcement All these are things that truly made big changes to how I use m

Re: [slim] Custom Browse Menu - No Alphabetical Sorting In Albums Sub-Menus

2012-04-29 Thread erland
kiwibrucie wrote: > > If you could modify the custom browse menu setting template, as you say > above, to achieve this so I can sort by artist alphabetically on the PC > web interface and Ipeng, I would be extremely happy!! :-) :-) > It should hopefully work as you like in the new 2.13.3808 Cu

[slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-04-29 Thread erland
Since the playlist management in SBS/LMS is a bit limited and most people seems to use external software to manage their playlist it feels like there is a need for something better in SBS/LMS. So, some questions to people that use saved playlists and would like to be easier. Try to think about ho

Re: [slim] Cool

2012-04-29 Thread erland
Soulkeeper wrote: > Now I feel like such a fledgling for having started out with 5ΒΌ"s. :D > Me too, kind of nice to feel young again :-) erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thr

Re: [slim] Custom Browse Menu - No Alphabetical Sorting In Albums Sub-Menus

2012-04-29 Thread erland
bobertuk wrote: > In a similar vein... > > Is it possible to present 'Artist' as the first item followed by 'Album' > then 'Year' under each entry in the list when using Album/sort by > artist. > > With the existing 'Album' (& 'New Albums') sorts it can be quite > confusing reading through the

Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-04-29 Thread erland
Mnyb wrote: > Actually all of the ideas expressed in point 1-6 . > Well, you can't get everything :-) If you had to prioritize and select one or two items per point, what would it be ? erland's Profile: http://forums.slim

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-04-29 Thread erland
epoch1970 wrote: > > #5: Quality (which means authorized I suppose) art and metadata. > I like discogs a lot, but really I am spending too much time on that > site. > I think I understand what you mean with art, but what do you mean with metadata ? Would you expect it to find metadata even if

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-04-29 Thread erland
Mnyb wrote: > Enhance the bandcamp plugin so that you can shop music and download > within the system . > ( I could have my paypal account stored in the plugin settings ). > Downloads go to a dedicated folder unzips and scan into the dB . > > Any other kind of integrated shop for lossles music (

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-04-30 Thread erland
Wigster wrote: > > 2. AirPlay support > Are there any specific iPhone/iPad apps which you feel it would be more important to be able to send the audio to the Squeezebox for ? I'm just asking because AirPlay is a bit tricky from a legal standpoint unless you like to pay license fees to Apple, so

Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-04-30 Thread erland
MrSinatra wrote: > > my guess is u are trying to do something inside server, like a plugin. > i would suggest your efforts would be a lot more useful if done OUTSIDE > of server, and besides, server could just read the apps output dir. > meanwhile, users of other apps could benefit! > Aren't

Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-04-30 Thread erland
To anyone that currently uses static playlists: 1. How many static playlists do you have for your library ? 2. Is a static playlist typically something you make, use for a single event/party and deletes afterwards ? 3. Is a static playlist typically something you make once and never change afterw

Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-04-30 Thread erland
MrSinatra wrote: > > i think the server UI sucks for just about anything. but my point was > that if you are going to do something, do something that could work for > any app, not just server. thats far more useful. > Wouldn't it just be a matter of using the m3u file which a SBS/LMS plugin

Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-04-30 Thread erland
MrSinatra wrote: > > i think an app like this does not need to be tied to server. > Completely agree, but it needs to be tied to some kind of media manager which can provide lists of available tracks, albums and artists. If you don't tie it to a media manager you will have to implement a scanne

Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-04-30 Thread erland
MrSinatra wrote: > > i think i laid out what i'm looking for pretty extensively, so those are > my needs. i hope thats useful to you. > It definitely is, your comments are appreciated. erland's Profile: http://forums.sl

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-04-30 Thread erland
cparker wrote: > In answer to your question, the key problem with pushing forward > development of "the experience" is the pitiful lack of opening up the > Jive interface to Third party developers. > > Without any movement on feature requests like; > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-04-30 Thread erland
Swimmerbird123 wrote: > I have over a hundred static playlists in my library. > > I listen mostly to classical music. When I rip music, I 'dismantle' the > CD contents and store each piece in a separate folder that contains all > the movements for that piece played by that performer. I then st

Re: [slim] Advice on where to go next

2012-05-01 Thread erland
bigsur78 wrote: > > I figure I have a few options, and am wondering what would give me the > biggest boost in sound (on the living room system) > 1. I could upgrade to a Squeezebox Touch. > 2. I could keep the SB3 and add a cheap DAC, perhaps a used Cambridge > Audio DAC magic > 3. I could upgra

Re: [slim] Advice on where to go next

2012-05-02 Thread erland
bigsur78 wrote: > > That said, I guess the real question I was getting at in my rambling > post was whether an SB3 plus a Dacmagic or a similarly priced DAC would > sound better than a Touch. > I don't have any personal experience of DacMagic, but here is a post from someone that have: http://f

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-05-03 Thread erland
rbz5416 wrote: > Coverflow for browsing albums. > In which interface do you feel this would be important ? web ? Controller ? iPhone/iPad/Android ? erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 Vi

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-05-03 Thread erland
Mnyb wrote: > Reducing the bewildering array of helper apps that might or might not > work on your choosen platform, or migth not even be there at all ? > > Compiling in licenced transcoding ability in the main app somehow, so > the lame search for lame could end ? or ffmpeg or mplayer or >

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-05-05 Thread erland
JJZolx wrote: > > More flexibility in configuring the SqueezePlay interface - text > size, color, now playing, title formatting. > If you look at your own needs, and ignore everyone else, what would you like to change regarding text size, color, now playing screen and title formatting ? Basic

Re: [slim] Custom Browse Menu - No Alphabetical Sorting In Albums Sub-Menus

2012-05-08 Thread erland
bobertuk wrote: > Hi again erland, > > I think I've found the code block used by Custom Browse to sort albums > by artist... > > ... > > If I wanted to swap around the order text output is displayed in the > WebUI: > > From: Album (Artist) > > T

Re: [slim] How do you want to create/manage playlists ?

2012-05-24 Thread erland
cathcam wrote: > > One thing that I'd really, really, really like is top take a playlist on > the LMS Server, and be able to export the playlist and tracks to an SD > card, harddrive etc. and have the playlist work because it uses relative > pathnames. In my case I have some 6,500 MP3 files, my

Re: [slim] Are Michael & Andy from Logitech still visiting this forum?

2012-05-28 Thread erland
Schindler wrote: > On his homepage, andy is not working for logitech some other firm... > michael all of a sudden has a new account to post here?! > It's posts like this that increase Google's search statistics... Try to back your rumors with some reliable links next time to avoid wasting other

Re: [slim] Altering the Controller Menu

2012-06-11 Thread erland
cparker wrote: > You highlight the menu you want to hide, press the + button. Then > select hide from Home Menu. > > Forgot to mention you can unhide via. Settings -> Home Menu, so its not > a perfect solution but does sort of help prevent accidental button > pressing > I'm guessing this won't

Re: [slim] Spotify region issue

2012-06-12 Thread erland
nonnoroger wrote: > (Also posted on the Logitech SB Forum) > > Running the official Spotify plugin, configured with my premium account > details, in the UK - some tracks cannot play on the Touch as unavailable > in my region, even though these play just fine from the Spotify app on > the Mac whe

Re: [slim] Altering the Controller Menu

2012-06-12 Thread erland
wombatch wrote: > You are right it doesn't really help that much and, as far as I can see > it only allows me to hide items on the Squeezbox display menu itself not > on a remote controller eg. Android or IOS controller application. > Which iOS or Android controller do you use ? As mentioned eac

Re: [slim] Spotify region issue

2012-06-13 Thread erland
nonnoroger wrote: > Well, now having tried it, I get the same issue with Triode's plugin. > Gary Burton Libertango album in my case - in a playlist created from the > official Mac Spotify client that plays perfectly from there. Using > either the official SB plugin or Triode's brings up the "not

Re: [slim] Spotify region issue

2012-06-13 Thread erland
nonnoroger wrote: > I left it blank as I am seeing the same top 100 list for tracks as I see > from the Mac client. This is how I interpreted the instructions. > > Just in case though, I have now selected United Kingdom and applied the > changes. Still getting the region problem though, but than

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-25 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > Fortunately, the music world is *not* going in the direction of an Apple > mono-culture. Actually the real trend is towards UPnP / DLNA. All the > major audio/video consumer device manufacturers (think of the big names > like Sony, Samsung, Philips, LG, Denon etc.) already suppo

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-06-26 Thread erland
maggior wrote: > > I'm amazed that Sonos has jumped ahead of Logitech with this. Logitech > had a huge head start and certainly the brand power to see it through. > It upsets me when I go to my local department store (Target) and see a > large prominent Sonos display. Sonos is also so expensi

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread erland
So, just to investigate this a bit further, to make sure I don't make any conclusions based on guesses. My current setup looks like this: - A Squeezebox Radio in my bedroom which is used as alarm clock in the mornings and listening to music while going to sleep or waking up. Automatic turn of aft

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-06-27 Thread erland
TheLastMan wrote: > > I have no idea what I will do when Logitech finally stop supporting the > system and turns off the MySqueezebox web site. > Can't you just run a local LMS on a computer ? erland's Profile: http://fo

Re: [slim] What is missing from your Squeezebox experience ?

2012-06-27 Thread erland
fredgoodman wrote: > > 1) Searching in LMS is primitive. Maybe this is not so much a problem > for listeners to other music types, but it is a problem for me since I > listen mostly to classical music. What is needed is a search that > searches in all tag fields for all words with an (implicit

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > Well, I would suggest two solutions: > - Is smart playlists supported if I control the player with a tablet and use JRiver Media Center as server ? - Is Dynamic Playlist plugin provided smart playlists supported if I use Whitebear ? - Do you know if Spotify is supported in any

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > Sorry Erland, but I don't know what you mean by a "smart playlist"? > Minimum requirement would be possibility to have an automatic playlist that either: - Contains all tracks in my library except for those I've marked it to ignore. The ignore ca

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > > I don't know much about Spotify, so I don't know if there are any UPnP > players that support it natively. But even though I don't have a Spotify > Account, I can tell you that with Whitebear, I was able to browse down > to "Andrew's Music->Add-Ins->Apps->Spotify->I don't hav

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-27 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > Yes, I think that J. River should be able to do both of the above two > things. Caveat: I personally did not test it beyond checking that it can > create things called "smart playlists" that dynamically play tracks > based on various standard sets of rules (e.g. ratings, recentl

Re: [slim] The Google Squeezebox: Nexus Q

2012-06-27 Thread erland
ajkidle wrote: > Did Google just announce their version of a Squeezebox, but with far > less functionality than the real thing? Really wish Logitech would > revive this product line... > > http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/google-nexus-q-revealed/all/ > Kind of cool physical design, but a

[slim] Logitech UE Air Speaker with iPeng ?

2012-06-27 Thread erland
Has anyone tried the 'Logitech UE Air Speaker' (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/speakers-audio/wireless-speakers/ue-air-speaker) together with iPeng with playback option ? Kind of feels like Logitech UE Air Speaker + iPeng with playback theoretically could act as a Boom replacement, but have anyone

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > More thoughts on this: > > Most App plug-ins in LMS expose urls with a custom protocol scheme (e.g. > aardvark://... instead of http://... ) and the plugin includes a > protocol handler that knows how to interpret this protocol scheme; i.e. > it knows how authenticate the user,

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-06-28 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > Indeed. A very precise observation. > > Principally the UPnP Digital Media Standard allows extensions beyond the > currently supported http:// and rtsp:// url schemes. In technical terms, > an extension is trivial to implement. The real difficulty would be in > getting device m

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-02 Thread erland
MrSinatra wrote: > > does anyone really believe that an audio product should exist today > whose main/native UI is webui? i would bet most people still using > server are using some other UI. > No, I don't think an audio product whose main UI is web based have a strong future. To expand this e

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-02 Thread erland
ko...@sietsma.com wrote: > I tend to think, sadly, that for slim devices to make money, they need > to > integrate video. Audio fans want their crisp neat audio interface, but > I > think the mass market wants video as well - they want their downloaded > tv/movies, they want youtube and netflix

[slim] How large is your local music library ?

2012-07-02 Thread erland
I'm working on a music streaming related project and want to get a better feeling of how large an average local music library used by community members with Squeezeboxes today. I'm interested of your library size independent if you are running SBS/LMS on a computer or if you are using the built-in

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-02 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > Just for info, I signed up to Spotify, and have been trying it out with > Whitebear using Triode's plug-in. And I can give the following > feedback: > > _*1)_Browsing_the_ContentDirectory*_ > > There is no fundamental problem to map the Spotify (Triode) browse tree > into the

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-02 Thread erland
AndrewFG wrote: > Following is in my opinion a more accurate redaction of what you said... > > > The whole point of using UPnP ... is if it allows me to mix players, > controllers and servers from different manufacturers, -and to mix > content from different content providers,- in the same syst

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-04 Thread erland
ko...@sietsma.com wrote: > > On a (to me at least!) slightly positive note - I picked up a set of > Logitech speakers for my PC today, I got some that have optional coax > inputs - and I note that all over the documentation it pushes the > Squeezebox, with lines like "to use the RCA inputs ... p

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-05 Thread erland
Everyone, please calm down a bit, everyone is allowed to have an opinion and post so but *mlsstl* is right in the sense that very few (probably none) of the forum people posting have experience of being in charge of a big company as Logitech, I'm fairly sure none of us would have done a better job

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-06 Thread erland
MrSinatra wrote: > come on erland, i know you don't believe that, just based on other posts > you've made about differentiating the product, ie. why would someone > want a SB over something else, especially something cheaper. > I think they can do a better job, I'

Re: [slim] How large is your local music library ?

2012-07-06 Thread erland
A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95676 Question: H

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-07-06 Thread erland
amcluesent wrote: > > Certainly in London, there's been plenty of Sonos adverts on the Tube > (our metro) but you never see Squeezebox advertising in any media. > And IMHO that's a much bigger issue than the fact that we haven't got any new Squeezebox hardware the last 2 years, I think some adv

Re: [slim] [iPeng Announce] Easier to share, lower price (iPhone)

2012-07-13 Thread erland
pippin wrote: > > > reniera wrote: > > > > About a year ago, we discussed the possibility for ipeng to copy music > > from lms to ios. Any news from that ? That'd be lovely and a more > > acceptable alternative for everyone like me that don't want to go fully > > the apple way (or people who's

Re: [slim] New kit next year?

2012-07-26 Thread erland
gharris999 wrote: > > If there have really been new hires, what are they up to? > Not sure if they have hired anyone yet, but some of the previous jobvite links has been removed, but these two are still available and they do mention Squeezebox. http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-08-02 Thread erland
mll wrote: > Very interesting read, everyone (although i confess I skipped on the > DLNA debate :). > > I'm not a frequent reader of this forum. I actually stumbled upon this > thread while trying to know when smart lists would be implemented, > confident as I was in the way Logitech (or rather

Re: [slim] added SB Radio to system, now network problems :(

2012-08-02 Thread erland
paul_london wrote: > Hi folks, just bought myself a Radio, to add to my Boom and Receiver > system (which worked fine before) only to now see a couple of problems. > Firstly the radio doesn't hold onto the wi-fi signal, although I think > this may be a seperate problem? > My Radio's doesn't hav

Re: [slim] Better Logitech products than the Squeezeboxes

2012-08-05 Thread erland
How do you handle remote control with this solution ? Doesn't this solution assume that the device that act as a source is the one you also hold in your hand which often means that it's not connected to the charger and will be drained of battery fairly quickly ? Or can you somehow remote control

Re: [slim] Better Logitech products than the Squeezeboxes

2012-08-06 Thread erland
mortslim wrote: > Regarding battery life of a cellphone or iPad, my experience is that > when not being charged, with screen off, just with wifi on to receive > the audio stream and bluetooth on to broadcast the audio stream, there > is relatively slow battery drain. > My experience is that if

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-08-06 Thread erland
mortslim wrote: > I believe the Squeezeboxes are "end of life". There most likely won't > be any improvements to the line hardware-wise and no new apps. > > However the corporation Logitech will continue and because of the large > squeezebox user base, it is very doubtful that the mysqueezebox.

Re: [slim] added SB Radio to system, now network problems :(

2012-08-06 Thread erland
If you suspect the network it might be a good idea to place them all in the same room temporary and connect them with a network cable and see if they work as expected then. If it doesn't work when you connect the devices with cable it's probably not caused by WiFi issues, but if it works with cabl

Re: [slim] My Journey to Musical Bliss

2012-08-07 Thread erland
MeSue wrote: > I've been an internet writer for more than 13 years, but I am just now > getting around to launching a personal blog. Of course, one of my first > posts had to be about Squeezebox. Thought some of you would be > interested in reading it. Please share and comment! > http://www.geeki

Re: [slim] My Journey to Musical Bliss

2012-08-07 Thread erland
erland wrote: > > Since forum posts are limited to 10 000 characters it's going to come in > two parts. > And here is the second part _*Part_2_-_Duet/Touch/Radio*_ During 2007 I was invited to join the hardware beta testing of the Squeezebox Controller. The Duet (packag

Re: [slim] What if Logitech pulls the plug

2012-08-08 Thread erland
TheLastMan wrote: > > I foresee Squeezebox functionality being built into future streamers / > players that are likely to have a dual audio and video streaming role. > > In my mind "Listen to music" and "Watch a video" is two use cases with very different characteristics, not just from a func

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