Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shoutcast Not Working

2010-12-20 Thread eric the halibut
Yes, I have exactly the same problem. I appeared to solve it by reinstalling the last software update but now today shoutcast gives the same 'unaabale to parse date' error message. The squeezebox server web interface gives the same result. -- eric the halibut

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] How to get a radio station playing as an alarm...

2010-12-20 Thread jamesg1979
mpower9;595703 Wrote: The funky music is the fallback alarm. It will play when for some reason the Radio does not receive the stream you asked it to play. You may want to check the threads dealing with the BBC and alarms. Evidently there is some problem there. Try

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shoutcast Not Working

2010-12-20 Thread eric the halibut
Further to the shoutcast problem, I have a squeezebox touch and everything else is working perfectly. -- eric the halibut eric the halibut's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42168 View this

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shoutcast Not Working

2010-12-20 Thread vw195
eric the halibut;595757 Wrote: Further to the shoutcast problem, I have a squeezebox touch and everything else is working perfectly. My shoutcast is evidently on the blink as well. Even a shoutcast favorite I have is not working, although its an old favorite so perhaps its URL has changed

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] How to get a radio station playing as an alarm...

2010-12-20 Thread aubuti
jamesg1979;595007 Wrote: ...it plays some funky 70's riff repeatedly, which is nice No, it's not nice. Effective at waking people up. But definitely not nice ;o) Glad you got Radio 1 sorted. -- aubuti aubuti's

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Questions Regarding Alarm

2010-12-20 Thread 0xdeadbeef
If you want a working alarm, better buy something else. The alarm is the most broken functionality on the Radio and it totally depends on the MYSB servers (or a local server running 24/7). If the MYSB server is down (which happens every now and then) or doesn't work correctly (which usually

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Questions Regarding Alarm

2010-12-20 Thread erland
kiptinui;595648 Wrote: I'm considering getting a Squeezebox Radio to use as both an alarm and a music streaming device (I don't really care about internet radio). Just to confirm this so you hear it from more than one person. If the alarm is important, I would choose some other solution

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Questions Regarding Alarm

2010-12-20 Thread tcutting
From your initial post, it seems to indicate that you would be using SBS. If you have SBS running 24/7, then (at least in my case), the alarm functionality for the Radio is quite reliable. My use case is that my server is always running, and my alarm sound is a sound file on my server. My

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Questions Regarding Alarm

2010-12-20 Thread Bob S.
I echo 0xdeadbeef: You don't want this as an alarm clock. I use SbS 24/7 and have alarms set to playlists and they often work. But for an alarm clock, often isn't sufficient. I've found that any hiccup, glitch, momentary loss of network availability can either reset the alarm so that it doesn't

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shoutcast Not Working

2010-12-20 Thread spozate900
I checked this evening and Shoutcast is now working now. Let's see how long it lasts though. -- spozate900 spozate900's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42164 View this thread: