Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One problem with the Touch

2010-10-19 Thread magiccarpetride
JJZolx;583981 Wrote: > What were you using previously as a transport to the DAC? I find it a > little hard to believe that the Touch is _that_ much better, unless the > old transport really stunk. I was using Squeezebox Duet. -- magiccarpetride ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch - An Australian review

2010-10-19 Thread dsdreamer
gmudunuri;582844 Wrote: > The Touch DAC sound great, especially compared to SB3's or Duet's DACs. > My external DAC (Cullen Stage IV modded PS Audio DLIII) does sound > better (dynamics, palpability, soundstage, air), but I wouldn't call it > night and day. The The Touch DAC is extremely good o

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Recommended USD Drives For Squeezebox Touch

2010-10-19 Thread littletree76
To avoid power supply, sleep mode and speed issues many have encountered with external USB drives with conventional hard drives, perhaps you should consider solid state drives. Probably many failures were due to USB port of Squeezebox Touch unable to supply sufficient current to hard drive (partic

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One problem with the Touch

2010-10-19 Thread JJZolx
What were you using previously as a transport to the DAC? I find it a little hard to believe that the Touch is _that_ much better, unless the old transport really stunk. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevic

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One problem with the Touch

2010-10-19 Thread magiccarpetride
iPhone;583950 Wrote: > Just exactly how is this a problem with the Touch?! Imagine dating a gorgeous looking person. After a while, you may realize that you're having trouble reading, and you go and see the eye doctor. The doctor prescribes you glasses, and that fixes your flailing eyesight. The

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One problem with the Touch

2010-10-19 Thread SteveEast
iPhone;583950 Wrote: > Just exactly how is this a problem with the Touch?! I think the post was missing a smiley in the title. Steve. -- SteveEast Home: 3*SB3 (1 dead), 1*Touch, 1*Boom, 4*Radio running 7.5.1 on Acer Aspire easyStore H340 WHS. Cabin: 1*Touch running 7.5.0 on itself. ---

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Cant get SoX upsampling to work - pulling my hair out...Numpties Guide please?

2010-10-19 Thread Phil Leigh
Phil Leigh;583718 Wrote: > Gazjam, > I've come to this a bit late. A few points: > 1) "More info" only shows what SBS thinks the bit rate will be based on > the file on disk - not what it is transcoded to. You can ignore it. > > 2) flc flc transcode * > This entry is only used when the sample ra

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Graphics query

2010-10-19 Thread erland
http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/jive/7.5/trunk/squeezeplay/src/squeezeplay_fab4/share/applets/SetupWallpaper/wallpaper/ -- erland Erland Isaksson ('My homepage' (http://erland.isaksson.info)) (Developer of 'many plugins/applets' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/User:Erland). If my answe

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One problem with the Touch

2010-10-19 Thread JohnSwenson
This has happened several times to me. What I've found is that the previous system either had some resonances or distorted with loud signals. For example a system that distorts with loud transients will sound bad with wide dynamic range uncompressed music but sound quite good with compressed music

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] One problem with the Touch

2010-10-19 Thread iPhone
magiccarpetride;583942 Wrote: > But much to our chagrin, Touch now reveals that it's a very poorly > recorded, poorly produced piece of music. So all of a sudden, the magic > is gone. > > On the up side, however, many of the tracks that I thought were ho-hum > are now being revealed by the Touch

[SlimDevices: Touch] One problem with the Touch

2010-10-19 Thread magiccarpetride
I've been over the moon since I've installed my Touch. Keep rediscovering my music library, and the excitement in my listening room is growing like crazy. My wife is now also enamored with the incredibly revealing capabilities of this little digital transport device (I'm using it strictly as a tra

[SlimDevices: Touch] Graphics query

2010-10-19 Thread nacmacfeegle
Does anyone know where to get the background graphics used in the Touch? I'd like to use the same backdrops on my video streamer which is easy to change, and it would look cool if they matched, as my touch sits next to my TV. Kinda like a Minime, as it were. ;-) Bit of an odd request, but many t

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Title formatting in Touch (squeezeplay)

2010-10-19 Thread yockers
Thanks. I was looking to change the way the Now Playing screen shows the Artist. However, I've since found that by SSH'ing into the Touch itself, there's a way of changing how artists etc are listed. -- yockers yockers's

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Cant get SoX upsampling to work - pulling my hair out...Numpties Guide please?

2010-10-19 Thread bpa
Gazjam;583869 Wrote: > [b] I tried running the SoX command but came up with this error? > sox FAIL sox: Channels value '-c0' is not a positive integer. > There is not "-c0" in the command line you have shown but there is a -C0 - have you mistyped ? > > A question as well? > I take it SoX conve

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Cant get SoX upsampling to work - pulling my hair out...Numpties Guide please?

2010-10-19 Thread Gazjam
bpa;583859 Wrote: > It is a user choice - user normally have file name extensions of 3 > letters and Flac files are usually .flc - you seem to prefer to use > .flac. This is part of understanding the basics. > OK, THANKS. :) > > YOU CANNOT HAVE A FILE NAME CONTAINING SPACES ON COMMAND LINES WIT