aah, finally got it to work. Of course, user error. I did not
properly install Squeezeplay. Thank you all who responded!
--
crimscrem
crimscrem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37536
View
Do not Reuse Old Hard Drives
Squeezebox Touch Server works best with average or faster USB
drives.
Drives with these characteristics are NOT recommended:
PATA drives with PATA-USB adapters
IMHO this is too explicit, and I'll bring it up for discussion with its author.
I've been using
krochat;535945 Wrote:
They are all 3.5 drives with their own power supply.
I also got a pair of Samsung Story 2TB external drives today
specifically to use with the Touch. I opened one and it was formatted
FAT32, so I started a slow NTFS format that's been running for hours.
After
ulvi;535939 Wrote:
The confusion may stem from the use of the UK flag
as the icon for English language text on the packaging.
I think using the UK flag to indicate English in a
multi-lingual context is pretty much universal.
It looks like the external box design and text
is identical
squeezetouch;535962 Wrote:
Must admit that I have given up trying to figure out why the in-build
SBS would intermittently come up with 'Local music server has been
stopped due to a problem' when I used the SDHC card as music source.
Will probably try again when I've got lost of spare time
Data point: I've been using a NTFS formatted 1tb WD Caviar Green drive
(3.5) with PATA-USB enclosure for myh Touch TinySC for months with no
such problems.
MC
--
ModelCitizen
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
Last.fm/user/ModelCitizen
This annoyed me when I first set it up so I changed the remote skin to
use small fonts.
Ideally the small skin should return after x seconds of the remote not
being used.
--
dave77
Boom - Controller - Touch - SBS 7.5 on Acer Revo R3610 Win7
My Touch is arriving shortly and this thread is making me nervous. A
main reason for me to buy the Touch is also 24/96 and this thread shows
that even playing from external USD drives directly plugged in resulted
in stutters! Thus the bottleneck must be in the Touch. I myself have a
gigabit seup
Hello everybody,
I'm having similar problems...
I have an 500 GB 2,5 external USB HD. Because the Squeezebox had some
problems recognizing the drive, I bought an AC self powered USB Hub to
solve the problem.
There are more or less 5 titles on the HD. It took 8 hours to scan
it. I thought
Hello,
I still have my SB3, but I will probably buy a Touch soon.
I am bit puzzled by the scanning time you are talking about for direct
usb hard disk.
For similar music library, my laptop scan everything in a few minutes
with squeezeserver 7.5
I can understand this will be slower with the
I don't know...
Today I don't have too much time, but tomorrow, I can compare the
database files created by the server on the PC (have to find out first
where is it located) and the one created by the embedded server
(located on the HD itself). If they are the same, I suppose this could
be done.
crimscrem;535954 Wrote:
aah, finally got it to work. Of course, user error. I did not
properly install Squeezeplay. Thank you all who responded!
Great. Lot's to learn to fully use all the options. But it sounds like
you're off to a good start and listening to music (the main point!).
Not sure what's not working. There must be an initial scan of the
attached USB drive so that the SB library knows what music is there.
--
garym
garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325
View
Valconi;536010 Wrote:
Also, the SBT must recognize the USBdrive. Because when it's unattached,
you can scan the whole thing again. That's very very annoying.
I agree that would be annoying, but if you let it build up the database
once, the Touch should recognise the USB when it is reattached
Mnyb;535966 Wrote:
Did you see that other tread I think the TinySBS scanner craps out if
the cover image is to big, and hangs.
Some folks uses 2000*2000 pixel cover art :confused:
Thank you, yes I have come across that post. Don't think that was the
issue with the SD card though. Had
Siduhe;536020 Wrote:
I agree that would be annoying, but if you let it build up the database
once, the Touch should recognise the USB when it is reattached and use
the existing database it has built up. You shouldn't need to rescan
every time as far as I know. What USB drive are you using?
kgturner;535852 Wrote:
.. the one thing i miss is that my SB3 allowed me to customize my
menus by de-selecting the items i didn't want/use. no such luck with
the touch, yet.
You can add/remove items for the Touch's Home Menu only.
Touch Settings Home Menu
What you can't do is
RemiP;536028 Wrote:
It's the initial setup, I newer see an option for anything, it goes
directly to connect to mysqueeezebox.com after the WIFI / Wired
Ethernet question.
I run a local v7.5 server, and have done it for many years. Have the
original SB3 (slimdevices), Boom and Duet.. newer
nicolas75;535997 Wrote:
Would it be possible to have an option to generate the embedded server
database on the usb disk with a fast PC ?
So you can use it as it is when you plug the disk to the Touch and use
the embedded server ?
This is most likely not going to work unless your PC is
squeezetouch;536026 Wrote:
Spent a bit of time with USB drives. Once it has scanned the drive for
the first time and built a database (which is stored on the very same
drive - but hidden) it no longer needs to rescan all files to re-build
the library after disconnecting (always use the
I unpack the product, plug in the AC adapter and Ethernet LAN cable.
Powers up, the.. it goes:
1. Language - Danish
2. Connection - Choose Wifi og Wired (I tryed both)
3. Next screeen- displaying connecting to my squeezebox.com . . and
that's it, no choice for entering anything.
SBS 7.5 runs
dave77;535984 Wrote:
Ideally the small skin should return after x seconds of the remote not
being used.
Please vote unless you have already done so:
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15140
I suspect it's pretty easy to patch the code to fix this if Logitech
don't want to do it,
Well done jstraw!
The meters look fantastic!
-Matt
--
eedork
eedork's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37535
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77117
hmmm...In that case, then I think it won't work. thanks for the
information!
But coming back to the original question...Is it normal that navigating
through the artist or album list or starting to play a title is so
slow?
Do you have the same problem? if not, which USB HD are you using?
--
Mnyb;535918 Wrote:
Reflack to 0 is not a proper solution ? or wired only support for hirez
?
This seems to fix most issues.
Flac 0 uses less CPU .
Wired uses less CPU .
I don't think its ever really ideal or acceptable for the solution to
be to recode your music to support the device.
nicolas75;535997 Wrote:
Hello,
Would it be possible to have an option to generate the embedded server
database on the usb disk with a fast PC ?
So you can use it as it is when you plug the disk to the Touch and use
the embedded server ?
I think it should be possible and something I thought
Thanks the update works, However not all my album art displays.
--
gellie
gellie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34468
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77354
Regarding the Bach problem, I looked at the tags in iTunes (the only
tagging program I have on the Mac). It doesn't have an artistsort but
there was a Sort Artist. I didn't see any Bach tags for Sort Artist.
I'll repost the other question in the tagging forum.
Thanks!
--
MadCityGeoff
DigitalMitch;535567 Wrote:
I'm running Touch as a server (STS) and also using it to control and
serve sync'd files to a Radio and a Receiver.
The Off problem.
I am having trouble switching the other device on and/or off. If I
select them via choose player and then use the Touch Standby
DigitalMitch;535567 Wrote:
I am having trouble switching the other device on and/or off. If I
select them via choose player and then use the Touch Standby button.
The remote player stops, the Touch screen goes dark but the Touch
continues playing (and displaying the time). If I want to
Upgradealways;535886 Wrote:
Canada is 25 years behind in commerce and goods. Most online retaillers
wont ship in Canada or will ding you with retarded duty, vat, services
fees and taxes. We are litterally 3rd world country for e-commerce,
acutally all commerce. I never buy canadian, I will
I don't have my Touch nearby to confirm, but as I recall dave77's
description is correct. And then after turning off the other player via
the Turn off [player name] on the Home menu, you can return to
controlling the Touch or any other player via the Choose Player menu
option.
--
aubuti
Valconi;536010 Wrote:
I attached a 250GB external Harddrive to the Squeezebox Touch with
almost 4000 tracks. The manual is mentioning the following:
Simply plug your drive into the USBconnector on the back of your
Squeezebox, or insert your SDcard into the slot on the right side.
*Then,
There is no Turn off player on Radio or Touch but it is there on
Controller.
I think Turn off was on Touch at some stage in the beta because I
came across this issue - however it looks like it has been omitted.
--
bpa
toby10;536062 Wrote:
This is the expected behavior. When you are controlling another player
via Touch, you turn that other player OFF, then Touch emulates the
state of that other player, in this case OFF (standby).
But at this point the Touch as a player itself is still playing because
toby10;536062 Wrote:
This is the expected behavior. When you are controlling another player
via Touch, you turn that other player OFF, then Touch emulates the
state of that other player, in this case OFF (standby).
But at this point the Touch as a player itself is still playing because
kgturner;536059 Wrote:
sweet! thanks for the info. i just rearranged my home menu to mostly
mimic what was on my previous SB3 menu. makes it a lot easier to
navigate to my most commonly used stuff.
Adding stuff to the Home Menu is a decent compromise, but please add
your vote for fuller
I recently used the network test as part of debugging (an ultimately
unrelated issue). If you're considering reworking it, then here's my
feedback:-
1) the different format between SB3/Boom and Radio/Receiver is awkward
to provide a single answer
2) the controller/radio history is useful to show
No 3 got me for years, I thought you where testing the whole network
good piont.
The wording network test gets you that impression
Player connection speed test would be better
And btw why not design an actual network test !
all players on that squeezeboxserver starts to do the test
dave77;536074 Wrote:
Isn't it just hidden by default, seems strange that they would leave
this off
Nope. Does not presently exist on Radio or Touch.
But it sure would be nice to have that option. :)
--
toby10
dave77;536074 Wrote:
Isn't it just hidden by default, seems strange that they would leave
this off
I looked and couldn't see it. I think the test to make it show must
have a bug.
--
bpa
bpa's Profile:
This looks to have been a conscious design decision:-
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15579
I can't fathom the design logic.
My inclination is that the menu option switch off player should
only appear when the device (Touch or Radio) is controlling a renote
player (not itself), i.e.
Interesting thread...
The bottom line is, as someone pointed out in an earlier post, the
internet is a great way to allow the consumer to uncover these devious
marketing strategies and make a conscious decision based on that
knowlege. If Logitec are smart about it they will react and make sure
Mnyb;535770 Wrote:
The tread had 300 views but only 4 vote on the bug ?
If you want it vote and comment in the bug tracker.
Fellow Squeezeboxers I implore you! Now 400+ views and only 6 votes?
http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16069
This missing feature is standard on all
squeezetouch;536026 Wrote:
Spent a bit of time with USB drives. Once it has scanned the drive for
the first time and built a database (which is stored on the very same
drive - but hidden) it no longer needs to rescan all files to re-build
the library after disconnecting (always use the
DigitalMitch,
I agree. I've never used a Controller so I don't know how it controls
other players.
In addition to a Touch/Radio controlled player ON/OFF option, I think a
ALL players ON/OFF would be handy as well.
There is a Plugin called AllQuiet (I think) that can turn all players
OFF (or
garym;536016 Wrote:
Great. Lot's to learn to fully use all the options. But it sounds like
you're off to a good start and listening to music (the main point!).
Play with it for a while and then post questions when you run into
things you don't understand. As you can see, this is a helpful
squeezyjim;536101 Wrote:
Interesting thread...
(PS: Touch is still NOT available anywhere for purchase in Holland, via
Logitech's own discriminatory extortion rackets or not)
Touch units have started to show up on eBay, probably from folks who
were able to grab units with the discount
The Touch/Radio/Controller could all do with a menu with a list of all
the players with the option to turn them on/off. I really don't want to
have to switch to another player just to turn it off.
I use the Other Players plugin at the moment for this, but the
SqueezeOS UIs would benefit from a
My guess is very few have standalone DAC's so this really wouldn't
affect that many, realistically.
I'm one of the majority without such a DAC, but you got my vote anyway.
;)
--
toby10
toby10's Profile:
toby10;536133 Wrote:
My guess is very few have standalone DAC's so this really wouldn't
affect that many, realistically.
I'm one of the majority without such a DAC, but you got my vote anyway.
;)
If that were truly the case then there would be no reason to include
the dual spdif's on the
squeezyjim;536101 Wrote:
As long as any company has a niche (as most companies do by definition),
or in other words a monopoly in a certain market area, the 'rules' of
market forces simply don't apply. The Squeezebox range is pretty unique
in its capabilities, so it is effectively a
toby10;536133 Wrote:
My guess is very few have standalone DAC's so this really wouldn't
affect that many, realistically.
I'm one of the majority without such a DAC, but you got my vote anyway.
;)
You have to include some home theater recievers with digital inputs
too.
And HT Processors,
I set the Touch up last night and tried some 24/96 files via wireless. I
experienced many of the same issues already posted - at first it would
stutter and skip a little, but once it got going it was fine. I have
basically a standard configuration, and did not have any visualizers
running.
I'm
Valconi;536036 Wrote:
I did use the disconnectfuntion. After that I restarted the usbdrive and
it starts to scan it all over again. And I don't want it to scan. I can
play a song from my harddrive with my pc without any scanning, so why
can't it be done with the Squeezebox?
You can use the
aubuti;536068 Wrote:
You seriously mis-read the manual. It never says to can play your music
off an external USB drive without running SBS. All Squeezeboxes, even
the Touch, require _some_ form of SBS to stream music. It could be the
SBS built-in to the Touch, or SBS running on a computer or
Really the only issue with 24/96, assuming you have the 2.4mbit/s
bandwidth, is the startup problem. We can probably make it delay
playback until more has been buffered in this case.
--
andyg
andyg's Profile:
aubuti;536141 Wrote:
Just out of curiosity, anyone know what international price
differentials and availability are for some of the competing products
like Sonos? I'd be very surprised if similar price discrimination did
not occur.
I just took a look at Sonos's site, and found that the only
gellie;536169 Wrote:
Question re: Step 2, How does the SQL database get downloaded to the
external HD? Do i have to do anything? thx
It happens automatically, it's store in the following directory on the
USB drive:
/.Squeezebox/cache/
It might not be visible on a computer unless you have
gellie;536169 Wrote:
Question re: Step 2, How does the SQL database get downloaded to the
external HD? Do i have to do anything? thx
No, you don't have to do anything special. SBS builds the database by
reading the tags on your music files, and writes the database to the
external HD. That is
andyg;536173 Wrote:
Really the only issue with 24/96, assuming you have the 2.4mbit/s
bandwidth, is the startup problem. We can probably make it delay
playback until more has been buffered in this case.
Really, then I'm positively surprised I'm sometimes to pessimistic
about everything 93%
Setup my new Touch last night via wireless and played a bunch of 24/96
FLAC files from my collection of DVD-Audio discs and only a song or so
hesitated at startup but then played fine thereafter. Most played
without any issue at all.
Just my experience
--
bigbwb
The FLAC decoder takes a certain amount of time to initialize and it's
longer for 24/96 files. Just needs some tuning that's all.
--
andyg
andyg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3292
View this
thanks, so basically all i have to to is drag my music files over from
itunes to my external HD, then plus the HD into the touch?
--
gellie
gellie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34468
View this
adamdea;536189 Wrote:
Apologies if this question seems daft: but can you use Ipeng or some
toher program to control via iphone a touch via which is running as a
squeezeserver with a usb drive attached and no external server.
yes, ipeng on an iphone/itouch OR squeezeplay running on a computer
The AVR scenario I see this being an issue is if a S/PDIF port expansion
device is used as these tend to be auto sensing in nature. But you are
right, my request is targeting a small audience. My real beef here is
that a feature has been removed from a product that is advertised as a
replacement.
Volume control on my touch doesn't work. I can still change the volume
from my Duet remote. I've reset the Touch but it didn't help. Any
ideas?
--
polishmike
polishmike's Profile:
Are you using the Touch's IR remote or the touchscreen? Does it not work
for both?
--
aubuti
aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074
View this thread:
Could it be that the SCANNER was still running for the people having
trouble with the playback?
--
pippin
---
see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote, at penguinlovesmusic.com
pippin's Profile:
Well either MySB is down, or your Touch cannot see the internet, or your
Touch is broken. :(
I think it won't ask for your MySB login info until it connects to MySB
first to see if it is already registered.
This is why I wonder if your Touch is actually seeing the internet. :(
--
toby10
It doesn't work on either
--
polishmike
polishmike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37606
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77460
Well, well, well... .. ... newer work with IT stuff when you´re tired
and have four kids playing around ;-) It was a firewall issue,
blocking port 3483..
Thanks for your attention and help :-)
toby10;536231 Wrote:
Well either MySB is down, or your Touch cannot see the internet, or your
I'm confused by the comment on network test being a bad name...
The current test, tests the network performance from the server to the
selected player. This shows whether there is enough network bandwidth
in your home network to stream at this rate to the player. I think
this is all that can
Very long shot on the Touch's home menu does it say Touch at the
top of the screen?
If it says anything else then your Touch is trying to control the
volume of another player.
Also, when you say the IR remote does not adjust volume, does it
activate the pop-up screen showing the volume
Triode;536246 Wrote:
I'm confused by the comment on network test being a bad name...
The current test, tests the network performance from the server to the
selected player. This shows whether there is enough network bandwidth
in your home network to stream at this rate to the player. I
As far as I can figure out, Touch's image viewer
cannot access any directories other than on the local
disk (or memory card) attached to the device.
Did anyone discover a way to get around this?
Seeing that the screen looks much better than I thought
it would (actually I am impressed with the
marlo;536254 Wrote:
Hi,
when my touch is connected to the internal server I get an error
'cannot connect to mysqueezebox.com invalid user or password' (or
similar, my language is german) when I try to access 'My Apps' or the
'App Galery'.
When I connect to my whs squeezebox server or
It sounds like Andyg JohnSwenson can't really reproduce the problem
fully as I and some others experience it. It is consistent in my case
and is certainly not just an initial buffer problem.
I took Phil Leigh's advice and tried streaming FLAC as PCM and this
worked fine even at level -8
eedork;536031 Wrote:
I poked through the menus for the the old spectrum analyzer screensaver
and didn't see it I know there's a recent thread about it, so I'll
have to dig that up and check it out.
-Matt
The spectrum analyzer and VU meters are part of the Now Playing screen
cycle.
glenw;536263 Wrote:
- using a cabled connection works fine at all FLAC levels (no WPA2
decryption overhead at the Touch)
Really?
--
pounce
pounce's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12645
View
eedork;536031 Wrote:
Mine arrived yesterday. What a deal! $225 with overnight shipping is
amazing. I was originally going to wait a few weeks to buy one, but
that price was hard to pass up.
I'm sure that was the whole reason for the sale - to drum up early
adopters who'd rave about it on
Yeah, it should. But it doesn't.
--
marlo
marlo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37542
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77465
Thanks John! That was the info I needed.
JohnSwenson;536264 Wrote:
The spectrum analyzer and VU meters are part of the Now Playing screen
cycle. When the now playing screen is visible touch anywhere in the
center of the screen and you will cycle through the available screens.
John S.
A US plug adapter was in the box so I guess it was the UK flag on the
box that got me thinking I had a european model. I set it up and
working fine but wasn't playing some songs in my itunes using the SB
server even though they are DRM free and purchased on itunes. I haven't
tried a USB stick
Mnyb;535960 Wrote:
In Eu you get 2 plugs the EU one and that weird UK plug ;) (is not GB a
part of EU) whats wrong with the schuko conector it's is for once a
very good contact.
Not like US dollhouse electrics.. runs and hides.. somewhere :)
There isn't an EU plug - its just close -
marlo;536280 Wrote:
Yeah, it should. But it doesn't.
ditto
--
Tripmaster
Tripmaster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33519
View this thread:
Strangely,mine now works fine.No idea how or why.
--
Ali Tait
Ali Tait's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37387
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77320
Hm, interesting.
All my self-encoded FLACs are -8, I use WiFi with WPA2 and have around
70% reception.
This currently works fine for me. I have seen it in the past (after
all, I _reported_ that bug up there a few months back) but I don't
experience it now.
I did try both streaming form my big
h.working fine here.
By chance are you all in the EU?
--
toby10
toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553
View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77465
andyg;536167 Wrote:
Also note that you can browse/play artists, albums, etc while it's
scanning, and you will just see the list that has been scanned so far.
this sounds like multitasking. steve said this is bad. can't be good.
it's confusing me as a user. can you please remove it?
--
plympton;536277 Wrote:
I'm sure that was the whole reason for the sale - to drum up early
adopters who'd rave about it on Amazon, forums, etc. Cheap marketing.
Worked on me - mine arrives today. :-)
-Dan
Worked on me too, I wasn't going to buy a Touch at all but then saw
this deal and
ulvi;536259 Wrote:
As far as I can figure out, Touch's image viewer
cannot access any directories other than on the local
disk (or memory card) attached to the device.
Did anyone discover a way to get around this?
The Touch doesn't seem to have the drivers to connect to a windows
share,
toby10;536318 Wrote:
Great how to guide for Internet Connection Sharing. :)
But, for clarity, you don't need a cross-over cable.
The Touch's ethernet port is auto-sensing so you only need a standard
RJ45 ethernet cable.
Also, what Swimmer has done is not at all like SB3 bridging. SB3
glenw, have you tried actually looking at the cpu and memory usage while
decoding the flac files? It would really help to know whats actually
going on inside your Touch.
You can do this by sshing into the Touch and running either ps -aux or
top.
To do this you need to enable ssh on the Touch:
Well, It's true. When reattaching the usbstation it scans the whole
database for any changes, and after that it adds the new music if it's
there. It takes less time than the first time. I can live with it now.
--
Valconi
usch;536034 Wrote:
This is most likely not going to work unless your PC is running Linux
(otherwise the path names will be different), and you are running the
embedded version of SBS on that PC (otherwise SBS will use MySQL, while
STS uses SQLite). If both preconditions are met you can try
DeWayne;536334 Wrote:
Just hooked up my touch. Like the OP said SB3 remote codes do not work
with the touch.
Slim and Logitech have put together another wonderful product!
I think you must *not* be using SB3 codes. What kind of remote control
is it, and how do you *know* it's sending Slim
John -
Wow, my results are completely different than yours. Playing regular
16/44k files on my Touch yields CPU usage of 60%. I haven't tried 24/96
yet.
I have Squeezebox Server 7.5.0 running on a Dell Mini 9 with Ubuntu
10.04 beta. This is directly connected via Ethernet to my wireless
peterw;536339 Wrote:
I think you must *not* be using SB3 codes. What kind of remote control
is it, and how do you *know* it's sending Slim Devices codes? Have you
disabled the jvc .ir codes for your SB3 and restarted SBS to verify
your remote isn't sending JVC codes?
I'm using a Pronto Pro
Hi
I'm using the Touch stand-a-lone with in-built server and WD 1 TB USB
hard drive, audio files are flac.
Currently...every 35 seconds the track skips back to the start of the
song. I copied the same files to a 4GB SD card and the album played
without fault. The external hard drive is only 18
1 - 100 of 131 matches
Mail list logo
