Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Spotify App crashing Radio?

2011-06-01 Thread nicolasso
There are numerous bugs related to the Spotify app. 1. The player reboots: this happens at various occasions. Sometimes when skipping songs, sometimes when turning the volume all the way up (which is really frustrating if you want to party :). I really don't know what triggers this, to be

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] radio shuts down when turned up to loud volume

2011-06-01 Thread nicolasso
Yes! I've been having the exact same problem. We were all dancing in the kitchen (as mentioned, summertime...) and wanted to boost it all the way up. Suddenly the unit started rebooting until we managed to turn the volume down. I don't see this as something implemented to protect the speaker

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Spotify App crashing Radio?

2011-06-01 Thread nicolasso
I can also add that the player seems more unstable when using Spotify with the high bitrate enabled. -- nicolasso nicolasso's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=47187 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shortwave Stations

2011-06-01 Thread garym
maggior;634206 Wrote: Wow, how things have changed. I was an avid swl'er in the 80's and 90's. I still have my kenwood r-5000 and r-600. I loved hunting for stations. Hunting on the web just doesn't seem like it would be the same. I understand that it must be a lot cheaper for the

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shortwave Stations

2011-06-01 Thread maggior
garym;634265 Wrote: Yep, very different these days! I still have my Drake R8b, Drake SW8, Lowe 150, ICOM R75, and several old SW radios, including my Hallicrafters 101MKII (a 1950s high-end receiver that looks like a '55 Chevy and weighs almost as much!I got this mint receiver a number

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shortwave Stations

2011-06-01 Thread garym
maggior;634282 Wrote: Wow, I never would have pegged Joe Walsh as an SWL'er :-). I liked the Drake receivers. When I bought my R-5000, I was torn between it and an R8. I went for the R-5000 only because I had been lusting for it for years. I fire up the R-5000 here and there for some

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shortwave Stations

2011-06-01 Thread Goodsounds
maggior;634282 Wrote: Wow, I never would have pegged Joe Walsh as an SWL'er :-). I liked the Drake receivers. When I bought my R-5000, I was torn between it and an R8. I went for the R-5000 only because I had been lusting for it for years. I fire up the R-5000 here and there for some

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Shortwave Stations

2011-06-01 Thread garym
Goodsounds;634307 Wrote: I never got in to shortwave. Would you say that the lure was the sense of adventure and the tactile experience of operating the radio, rather than the content? Today, internet broadcasting brings clear content (in most cases) in a mechanical, uninteresting way which

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Reciveing Podcasts

2011-06-01 Thread mpower9
using an aggregator under SBS only works if you are using SBS. If you are connecting without a computer or other SBS server then this work around doesn't do it. -- mpower9 mpower9's Profile: