Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Display next alarm

2009-11-16 Thread bluegaspode
I like this idea ! My wife turns the alarm off every weekend, because she just sees the 'alarm on' icon, and doesn't want to look into every alarm if it is disabled for the weekend. Showing day+time of the next alarm would solve this. -- bluegaspode 1x SB-Controller+Receiver (Duet),

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] internet radio format support

2009-11-16 Thread Dangze
bpa;460894 Wrote: Yes. Most of the common formats are supported. The most common problem type is mms. mms is a Microsoft format for WMA. Stations have a choice of supporting mms and/or http as the transport protocol. A few have opted for just mms and mms is not supported by SB

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] internet radio format support

2009-11-16 Thread bpa
t ! In fact, I am French, and most of French popular radios (that I want to listen in another European country) are streamed using mms protocol... Some of them have recently switched from http to mms, First, http and mms are not mutually exclusive - often station give a mms URL and in

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Display next alarm

2009-11-16 Thread simsboard
100% support for this idea also from my side :-) -- simsboard so far only 1x Squeezebox Radio mainly used with mysb.com http://www.lastfm.de/user/weanabazi simsboard's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] internet radio format support

2009-11-16 Thread Dangze
bpa;485979 Wrote: First, http and mms are not mutually exclusive - often station give a mms URL and in fact they support both mms and http. It would best to post the URLs of the stations so that they can be checked they are exclusively mms. I would find it very strange that a station

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread toby10
That's a great deal regardless of the source! $149 for the SB Radio + $49 battery (when available) gives you a great portable player for $200. Grab them!! :) -- toby10 toby10's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] First impressions.... not impressed

2009-11-16 Thread toby10
yobyot;485773 Wrote: .. Product suggestion: next Xmas, how about a slightly larger Boom++ with a color screen, HDMI inputs/outputs and even better acoustics? After 30 years as an audiophile, I got tired of wires everywhere and huge receivers and speakers all over my family room.

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] internet radio format support

2009-11-16 Thread bpa
Both those station (e.g. nostalgie 92.9 ) play OK on an SB3 connected to mysqueezebox.com (i.e. they have http streams). If you are using the SBS Internet Radio (i.e. Radiotime) option to find the station URL - then WMA will nearly ALWAYS be shown as mms and so it is not a definitive way to

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] internet radio format support

2009-11-16 Thread Dangze
bpa;485996 Wrote: Both those station (e.g. nostalgie 92.9 ) play OK on an SB3 connected to mysqueezebox.com (i.e. they have http streams). If you are using the SBS Internet Radio (i.e. Radiotime) option to find the station URL - then WMA will nearly ALWAYS be shown as mms and so it is not

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Display next alarm

2009-11-16 Thread jrichardson
Sounds like an excellent opportunity for a 3rd party app can be written -- jrichardson James R. QA - breaking things so you don't have to jrichardson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15418 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread jeanwedding
I was just getting ready to post this. I meant to last night. I saw it in My Sundays paper last night. I too checked out my BestBuy before I ordered over phone from Crutchfield. If I would have known it would have been this price I would have waited the two weeks. Yeah Best Buy did NOT have

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Display next alarm

2009-11-16 Thread Dean Blackketter
On Nov 16, 2009, at 8:14 AM, jrichardson wrote: Sounds like an excellent opportunity for a 3rd party app can be written I disagree. As an alarm clock, this is pretty basic and important. When there's an alarm set to go off in the next 24 hours, an icon and the time for the next alarm

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread Ikabob
This is really cool for a nice Christmas present. Is there a 2 year warranty? I noticed that at logitech.com the warranty is 1year and some other products the warranty is accidentally not mentioned. -- Ikabob Ikabob's

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Applets / plugins for SB Radio

2009-11-16 Thread jeanwedding
I push big button when it show install but nothing happens. just stays there. Once it urned off the actual radio and restarted. It played one of my presets. Tried again. But only place I see the Beta weather is under applet installer. I click the button under install I pushed the Big knob show

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread jeanwedding
Ikabob;486084 Wrote: This is really cool for a nice Christmas present. Is there a 2 year warranty? I noticed that at logitech.com the warranty is 1year hardware only and some other products the warranty is accidentally not mentioned. I only see one year mentioned. Wonder why not two

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread jeanwedding
The one BB is sold out and the other BB SUPPOSDELY has1 left. I bet they only got a few in period. I asked about those Sonos or whatever yall mentioned salesman over phone said $1000.duh Reason want to get it at BB so I can get free interest if I buy 2. I closed my acct a while

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art

2009-11-16 Thread jamesg1979
MrSinatra;485967 Wrote: delete those hidden files and windows will recreate them with the proper artwork. No thumbs.db in there, or any of my music files... -- jamesg1979 jamesg1979's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread dblack
mlsstl;486113 Wrote: I just ordered one for $149 from Amazon with free shipping. Not bad. However, I haven't seen anyone mention that only the black ones are on sale. The red version is still listed at $199. I noticed that as well. I ordered the black one yesterday (with free shipping),

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread snarlydwarf
I already bought a red one (direct from slim apparently just before Logitech consumed their direct sales), but have one cow-orker who just ordered the black one from Amazon and another thinking about it. Yes, my red radio sits on my desk at work and it made them jealous. -- snarlydwarf

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Warranty information for Radio? Typo.

2009-11-16 Thread Ikabob
Can someone clarify this: have warranties on logitech Squeezebox products gone from 2 years parts and labor to 1 year only parts? There is a discrepancy between logitecksqueezebox.com and logitech.com. I do not think logitech is aware of this and perhaps the one year warranty is in error.

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Applets / plugins for SB Radio

2009-11-16 Thread jeanwedding
Thank you Sir Bluegaspodeit working Yeah Yeah doing a happy dance I tried the screen saver settings many times but that was before it actually showed under the Applet Installer on my actual squeezbox radio. Its fabulous. But where can I find my city code or airport code for

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Can't save playlist as Favorite?

2009-11-16 Thread JJZolx
jmpage2;480098 Wrote: I didn't even think about doing this and YES it worked! Thanks so much, I think I'm going to file a bug report on this since even the manual refers to being able to add a playlist as a favorite from the radio itself. Did you ever file a bug report on this? I think a

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Can't save playlist as Favorite?

2009-11-16 Thread jmpage2
JJZolx;486149 Wrote: Did you ever file a bug report on this? I think a checkin was made today to 7.5 that fixes this. I did not. If the bug has not been cleared I will file a bug report. -- jmpage2 jmpage2's

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Can't save playlist as Favorite?

2009-11-16 Thread JJZolx
jmpage2;486150 Wrote: I did not. If the bug has not been cleared I will file a bug report. Probably still broken in 7.4, unless this gets merged at some point. Code: Author: bklaas Date: Mon Nov 16 11:58:25 2009 New Revision: 29268 URL:

[SlimDevices: Radio] Dimming when playing vs. std.-by

2009-11-16 Thread larsfloe
Other posts discuss the autodimming which is great, but tends to dim to much. I saw romours that they will evt. include a max-dim feature shiwh could be handy. I've also noticed the screen saver when playing is darker than the one showing when in std.-by. Any parameters/fixes for that. --

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Applets / plugins for SB Radio

2009-11-16 Thread bluegaspode
wow, never was addressed as 'sir' :) Um - you should just put in your town and country like 'Berlin, Germany', 'London, England'. In the original thread of the plugin you will also find a small discussion about possible values for US cities (but most likely 'city, state' will be sufficient). If

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Can't save playlist as Favorite?

2009-11-16 Thread jmpage2
JJZolx;486151 Wrote: Probably still broken in 7.4, unless this gets merged at some point. Code: Author: bklaas Date: Mon Nov 16 11:58:25 2009 New Revision: 29268 URL: http://svn.slimdevices.com/slim?rev=29268view=rev Log: Bug: n/a

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] 2 questions about album art

2009-11-16 Thread MrSinatra
please clarify: you are using XP? you see the wrong cover art on icons of folders in windows explorer? you have hidden, system files available to view? if so, somewhere either in the folder or its parent, there is a thumbs.db file or similar, and deleting it is the answer. -- MrSinatra

[SlimDevices: Radio] How to Switch from SBS to MySB?

2009-11-16 Thread Apesbrain
If I've just listened to my local server and now have switched to Rhapsody, does the Radio know the server is no longer needed and let it shut down? Or, how do I manually switch Radio source from server to network? I'd prefer my server to go back to standby if its not needed. -- Apesbrain

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread micah
Wow. I had an amazon pre-order that didn't get shipped to me till October 15th. Less than one month later and it is $50 cheaper. I'm glad you all are getting such a good price and I just might pick up a second one. But are there any other early adopters out there that are feeling a little

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread vw195
A little bit, but I'm still loving the radio, so I guess thats the main thing. -- vw195 vw195's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32644 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread snarlydwarf
micah;486232 Wrote: Wow. I had an amazon pre-order that didn't get shipped to me till October 15th. Less than one month later and it is $50 cheaper. I'm glad you all are getting such a good price and I just might pick up a second one. But are there any other early adopters out there that

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread tcutting
Thanks to the forum! I had bought one at BB less than 2 weeks ago... stopped buy this evening on my way home from work, and got $54.88 credit to my Credit Card! -- tcutting tcutting's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Radio on Sale

2009-11-16 Thread jmpage2
If $149 is the new retail price they are going to sell a lot of units. -- jmpage2 jmpage2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41 View this thread: