snarlydwarf;500458 Wrote:
> But I still love my Radio... the form factor and sound are just too nice
> to let go of despite "well it could be better.." things.
And that's the problem we face. I am leaning towards that same
attitude.
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jrebeiro
jrebeiro;500440 Wrote:
>
> I also tracked down the random reboot issue to a problem with AAC
> encoded files. When I reencoded the tracks to MP3 they played without
> rebooting the device.
You should submit that as a bug and attach one of the
this-makes-my-radio-crash files to it. Sounds like
toby10;500327 Wrote:
> Yeah, I tried this last night in a very dark room, was no help.
> The only buttons even slightly visible with a bright screen were the
> Presets.
That's most likely because they are metallic and right next to the
display.
> Ok, so you've listed at least half a dozen reaso
jrebeiro;500217 Wrote:
> I think in a dark room in the middle of the night the full screen
> brightness might hinder more than it helps. Especially if it kicks in
> when you touch a button which means the screen is going from very dim to
> really bright. Deer in the headlights anyone?..
Yeah
kmr;500240 Wrote:
> YMMV. My Radio is about 3 feet from my face when I'm in bed, and its
> time display is significantly larger than the Sony CD clock radio it
> replaced. My only gripe is that the auto-dim gets a little too dim.
> And I think you're dismissing the battery option way too light
JJZolx;500238 Wrote:
> Other than the color screen (which, IMO, is much too small for any kind
> of clock) and maybe the dedicated volume knob, there's nothing that
> could be called an improvement over the Boom. The battery option makes
> it more portable than the Boom, but doesn't even come in
Ok, so you've listed at least half a dozen reasons why the Radio is
inferior to the Boom. So why switch? IMO the Boom makes a much better
clock-radio replacement. The Radio was designed and produced to be sold
at a lower price point. Other than the color screen (which, IMO, is
much too small f
sander;500209 Wrote:
>
> When I mentioned this in another thread before the developer of the
> awesome auto-dim mentioned he would have to write a Squeezeplay applet
> to make the radio dim. Maybe the bug MC mentions prevents him from doing
> that I don't know.
I think you may be talking about
toby10;500107 Wrote:
> Or is even full screen Brightness not enough to help with night time
> button navigation?
I think in a dark room in the middle of the night the full screen
brightness might hinder more than it helps. Especially if it kicks in
when you touch a button which means the screen
snarlydwarf;500190 Wrote:
> I don't see what that has to do with a backlit LCD display vs a VFD
> display which is what ModelCitizen was citing.
I meant that add-on developers have found ways to work around problems
like this in the past. They obviously can't overcome oversights in the
hardware,
sander;500186 Wrote:
> To me it boils down to the fact that as good as the underlying
> technology is, the overall worth of the Squeeze tech is tied to the
> plugins and support of third party developers. All of the cool new
> devices that have come out since the SB3 have all had major oversights
ModelCitizen;40 Wrote:
> However, the reason I've given up using my radio as my bedroom alarm
> clock and stuck the too-large Boom back on my small bedside table is
> that the radio screen is too bright to sleep next too and (unlike the
> Boom) it is not possible to reduce its minimum brightn
ModelCitizen;40 Wrote:
>
> However, the reason I've given up using my radio as my bedroom alarm
> clock and stuck the too-large Boom back on my small bedside table is
> that the radio screen is too bright to sleep next too and (unlike the
> Boom) it is not possible to reduce its
ModelCitizen;40 Wrote:
>
> However, the reason I've given up using my radio as my bedroom alarm
> clock and stuck the too-large Boom back on my small bedside table is
> that the radio screen is too bright to sleep next too and (unlike the
> Boom) it is not possible to reduce its minimum brig
I have to agree about the backlit buttons, a real mistake for an
alarm/radio box. The alarm/sleep/snooze implementation is also poor,
horribly fiddly, misleading and badly thought out.
On the plus side though the screen is superb and the seperate volume
and nagigation knob an obvious advantage ov
I am using Squuezebox Server Version: 7.4.1 - r28947 @ Tue Oct 20
07:58:02 PDT 2009
Your plugin sounds like just the trick I was looking for. My basic
usage of the sleep timer is to load up a random song in my Pzizz Sleep
album then set the sleep timer to end of song. If the plugin can do
exactly
jrebeiro;499098 Wrote:
>
> The sleep timer is not intuitive at all. It's well hidden in the
> settings. Even adding it directly to the home screen is still not as
> easy as the Boom. It should really be placed either in the popup you get
> when pushing the knob in the Now Playing screen or shoul
- Radio alarm functionality is being worked, stay tuned
- correct, no backlit buttons on Radio
- no tone controls (bass, treble) on Radio
- reboots: Radio requires SqueezeBox Server v7.4. Are you running
7.4?
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toby10
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