Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Digital out of Touch vs Transporter

2009-10-31 Thread Themis
Duplicate thread : http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70623 -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Cyrus 8xp - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus Themis's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread ModelCitizen
gorman;459191 Wrote: What about the fact that iPod interface is definitely not steering wheel distance friendly? I've not had one idea for an app that has not already been made. :-). Try PlaySafe. Works for me. A 32gb iPhone 3GS is fine in the car. It'd be nice if it was larger capacity and

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread dsclar
pfarrell;479806 Wrote: dsclar wrote: But an ipod won't play FLAC files natively, and even if it did I have 1TB drives filled up with high quality music rips. No mp3's for me other than a few very old things and some old baseball game rips I made. This is silly. My library of 800+

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch as server

2009-10-31 Thread fairyliquidizer
How is the performance of the Touch as a server? Will I notice any lag on the interface for example? I would like to move away from using my PC as a server. -- fairyliquidizer O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An'

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread Pat Farrell
dsclar wrote: Well I'd have to respectfully disagree. I can surely hear the difference between mp3's and flacs in my Lexus with the Levinson sound system. Of course XM radio sounds even worse than many mp3's but I can surely hear all the processing they're doing. If you can't hear the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread gorman
... I already wrote what an iPod is lacking. Decent on the fly management of playlists. I can't tell an iPod, while I'm listening to a song, I want to hear this song next. Decent replaygain support. The fact that Soundcheck uses only track gain makes it pretty much useless to me. A WELL

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread Pat Farrell
gorman wrote: Why on Earth no company has introduced a slot in iPod loader on their headunits is beyond me. Probably because its a very price competitive business, and Apple charges a lot for the license to make a iPod accessory And, while the iPod/iPhone is hot today, the car business moves

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread dsclar
slimfast;479872 Wrote: Why on earth is FLAC important in a _car_? Is your car so amazingly quiet and your ICE system so fantastically hi-fi that you are seriously telling me that there is some sort of noticeable difference between FLAC and high bitrate AAC (on an iPod) when plugged into

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch as server

2009-10-31 Thread dave77
aubuti;479610 Wrote: In fact, erland already has written the Album Flow plugin that works quite well, though there are still some bugs to be squashed: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68376. That looks good but I was thinking more photos than album art -- dave77

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread Themis
I agree with dsclar on all this. -- Themis SB3 - North Star dac 192 - Cyrus 8xp - Sonus Faber Grand Piano Domus Themis's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14700 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch as server

2009-10-31 Thread aubuti
dave77;479971 Wrote: That looks good but I was thinking more photos than album art Already done and available on the SBC and SB Radio as well as the SB Touch. There's the flickr plugin for grabbing photos (yours or other people's) off the internet, or locally stored photos from the Image Viewer

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch as server

2009-10-31 Thread dave77
Perfect :) dave77;479560 Wrote: Finally, The Touch will replace my SB3, as present both Boom and SB3 are wireless and my SBS is wired to the router. When I lose the SBS, would it be best to wire the Touch so that the Boom will not need to make 2 'hops' to get to the music, eg Boom ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch as server

2009-10-31 Thread aubuti
dave77;480011 Wrote: Any comments on this? Depends. Some people have no problem with double hops on regular SBS, and I would expect that it would be the same for 'TinySC' on the SB Touch. Of course, it certainly can't hurt to wire the SBT. -- aubuti

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread dsclar
Themis;479995 Wrote: I agree with dsclar on all this. Thanks Themis, Regardless of whether one can hear the dfferences between lossy files and lossless files in a car environment can we agree that one can certainly tell the difference in a home environment? Now keep in mind that I have never

[SlimDevices: Touch] XM Radio on the Touch

2009-10-31 Thread walterconklin
Hello, I just found out about the Squeezebox touch. I was wondering if it possible to listen to XM Radio on the Squeezebox Touch. Thanks, Walter -- walterconklin walterconklin's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will we ever see an in-car version of the Touch?

2009-10-31 Thread Themis
dsclar;480048 Wrote: Thanks Themis, Regardless of whether one can hear the dfferences between lossy files and lossless files in a car environment can we agree that one can certainly tell the difference in a home environment? Oh, but I do suppose one can hear the difference between a