Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread SBGK
JohnSwenson wrote: > That should be impossible, the factory reset completely gets rid of > anything changed from the raw firmware image. How did you initiate the > factory reset? Did you get the message on the screen that settings were > being reset? If yes then there is something wrong with the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread Liting
Triode wrote: > Yes if the internet radio station uses a sample rate lower than that > supported by your dac then you may get this. This is because the EDO > app disables the resampling layer of software which Touch uses by > default (alsa plug layer). Hi, Triode, Is there any method to fix it

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread vincey103
hi triode, I've followed your posts on pink fish and had been delighted with the usb plug in going into mdac via usb hub. all was working well until a couple of days ago when i uploaded the new audio lab firmware and its all gone to pieces-dac not recognised,crashes etc. this is only on usb and co

[SlimDevices: Touch] Problem with switching between Mysqueezebox and my Squeezebox server

2012-04-27 Thread StuRat
Hi Hoping someone can help. I have a problem that when I switch from mysqueezebox.com to my squeezebox server running on a Readynas Duo and try to play music the track plays, but there is no sound. In order to get sound I have to switch back to mysqueezebox.com and then go to My Music again. T

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Please recommend USB hub for use with SBT - Extended Digital Output

2012-04-27 Thread p-cubed
dsdreamer wrote: > I don't know which country you're in, but in the US you might consider > http://www.amazon.com/GWC-HU2024-BLK-USB-2-0-2-Port/dp/B00667MJR8 > > Or the white version > http://www.amazon.com/GWC-HU2024-USB-2-0-2-Port/dp/B000ZEUQ3M > > According to the reviewer who cracked one o

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Compatible 32Gb USB Memory Stick Req'd

2012-04-27 Thread urardo
As before, all I can say is that the Echo ZE 32GB still works for me... I got it at a cheap price two years ago, and now there are plenty of cheaper sticks that you could always find another use for if they didn't work with the Touch. The appeal of the ZE (not SE, ME, or ZX...) was in its small si

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread FredNowak
JohnSwenson wrote: > As far as I know the Wyred4Sound DACs use the M2Tech OEM board which > means they need a proprietary driver to work, which does not exist for > linux. Thus i would not expect to get it to work over USB at all. > > John S. I sent Customer Support at Wyred4Sound a copy of my

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread Mushroom_3
JohnSwenson wrote: > That should be impossible, the factory reset completely gets rid of > anything changed from the raw firmware image. How did you initiate the > factory reset? Did you get the message on the screen that settings were > being reset? If yes then there is something wrong with the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread albertone74
garym wrote: > I have two VBA (see signature) and they work very well (running 24/7). I > use them for both my music collection and as a general "network" storage > for various files. It can also work to stream video (which I haven't > tried). The forum for Vortexbox is very helpful for any ques

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread garym
albertone74 wrote: > > Yeah I am very tempted now. I have been looking at differenet NAS > devices like QNAP TS-212 for istance. Taking into account that I will be > using bdpoweramp for ripping my CDs, this means that I wouldn't need the > CD-RbM player which is built-in in the VBA. So would it

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread albertone74
guidof wrote: > I second garym's views on the VBA. It's a great device. Personally, I > don't use its ripping capabilities as I prefer to rip on an external (to > my PC) Samsung drive via dbpoweramp. It's faster than the VBA and lets > me edit tags and artwork before I rip. > > One problem that

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread albertone74
garym wrote: > I'm not familiar with the QNAP, so can't compare. Whatever you get, make > sure that it supports LMS without a lot of hacking, has a good support > community for questions, and is powerful enough. Low power NAS units may > work, but can be painfully slow and problematic (I started

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread garym
albertone74 wrote: > I definitely take your valid point. Can you select the level of > compression in your VBA same as in dbpower amp. I am esed to select 8 > all the time. > Cheers good question. I never bothered to look at the VBA FLAC compression. I assume it is probably default -5 too, but n

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Compatible 32Gb USB Memory Stick Req'd

2012-04-27 Thread streamer
urardo wrote: > As before, all I can say is that the Echo ZE 32GB still works for me... > I got it at a cheap price two years ago, and now there are plenty of > cheaper sticks that you could always find another use for if they didn't > work with the Touch. The appeal of the ZE (not SE, ME, or ZX.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread albertone74
garym wrote: > good question. I never bothered to look at the VBA FLAC compression. I > assume it is probably default -5 too, but not sure. Good question to ask > on the Vortexbox forums. In any case, once securely ripped to flac, you > can simply convert the old FLAC file to a new FLAC file wit

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread garym
albertone74 wrote: > Indeed I would have thought that you could change the settings somehow > in the VBA interface... perhaps there is an option there, didn't notice. but mostly VBA is designed for folks to simply insert disk and magically have ripped music in the right place with the right tags

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread guidof
albertone74 wrote: > Indeed I would have thought that you could change the settings somehow > in the VBA interface... Personally, I found that uncompressed FLAC sounds (marginally) better to my ears than level 5 compression, which I had been using for a while. The newest version of dbpoweramp le

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread albertone74
garym wrote: > perhaps there is an option there, didn't notice. but mostly VBA is > designed for folks to simply insert disk and magically have ripped music > in the right place with the right tags. Doesn't always work that way > (tags particularly)... I might raise that question on the VortexB

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread garym
albertone74 wrote: > I might raise that question on the VortexBox website. I have noticed > from your signature that you have ipengHD as well. Does it work fast > when using VBA? Can you browse your music collection without any probs? yes, very fast and works very well with my VBA. Also have ipe

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread Triode
Mushroom_3 wrote: > I have used both methods and the EDO legend is still in the top left of > the screen when it powers up. I think there should be a warning that > once installed you can't fully uninstall EDO. You can - you need to reinstall a stock firmware (via settings > advanced > software

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread Triode
FredNowak wrote: > I sent Customer Support at Wyred4Sound a copy of my post and John's > reply. I asked if John's assessment that the µDAC has the M2Tech OEM > board is correct. Here is the Wyred response: "John is incorrect, we are > not using the interface he mentions. We are using the same int

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread albertone74
guidof wrote: > Personally, I found that uncompressed FLAC sounds (marginally) better to > my ears than level 5 compression, which I had been using for a while. > The newest version of dbpoweramp lets you choose uncompressed, and that > is what I now use for all my rips. I acknowledge that whethe

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread Triode
vincey103 wrote: > hi triode, > I've followed your posts on pink fish and had been delighted with the > usb plug in going into mdac via usb hub. all was working well until a > couple of days ago when i uploaded the new audio lab firmware and its > all gone to pieces-dac not recognised,crashes etc

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread FredNowak
Triode wrote: > So I think the follow up question you should ask them is whether they > expect it to work with a stock linux kernel. (If not then it won't work > with touch, if yes then there may be a possiblity and we should > investigate further.) Triode, Here is what Wyred4Sound said in ans

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread rgro
You, indeed, can change the VBA's flac compression level by editing the /etc/ripit/conifg file. The default is set at 5. I use iPeng (on an iPad 1), too and find it quite snappy. albertone74 wrote: > Guido you are right I have noticed that option as well but I have never > used it so far. At

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread Triode
FredNowak wrote: > Triode, Here is what Wyred4Sound said in answer to your question: "The > interface does work with Linux driverless in adaptive mode. It will not > work with Linux in async mode." > > Fred At present I'm afraid it probably doesn't work then as there is no way to select adaptiv

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Announce: Enhanced Digital Output app - USB Dac and 192k Digital Ouput

2012-04-27 Thread FredNowak
Triode wrote: > At present I'm afraid it probably doesn't work then as there is no way > to select adaptive mode from the touch. It works fine in adaptive mode. I have not listened enough to say it works as well as coax but it is very good. Pops and clicks have not been noticed. All that is nee

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Please recommend USB hub for use with SBT - Extended Digital Output

2012-04-27 Thread JohnSwenson
I'm using a little "mobile hub" I picked up at my local computer store, it cost a whopping $5. It came with a power supply but it can be used either way, I just run it without the supply, getting it's power from the Touch. I can't tell you the part number, it had the store's name on it rather th

[SlimDevices: Touch] NEW Touch - NO SOUND from mysqueezebox.com

2012-04-27 Thread usbethjim
I'm trying to remain calm - I've used this stuff since I got suckered by SlimDevices (Sean?) into buying an Infrant (was it?) Nas with the Slim Devices SB3. Remember that marketing campaign? Of course I've continued to drink the kool-aide - Netgear ReadyNAS Pro - Logitech Duet (recently sold), L

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Simple question: Remote highlight colour

2012-04-27 Thread aubuti
sponsford wrote: > Is there a good way of powering off/rebooting without just pulling the > plug? Use the reset button, which is on the back of the Touch, on the left-hand side as you face the front of the Touch. A short press and hold (2-3 secs) will reboot. A long press-and-hold (~10-15 secs) w

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Switching Libraries - what is this all about ?

2012-04-27 Thread aubuti
theadmans wrote: > It is Windows XP - when I reboot the LMS icon flashes as it loads in the > system tray (takes a good couple of minutes before it says it is > running). However, when I exit the running software and restart with my > Desktop icon it seems to load straight away. The fact that the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Simple question: Remote highlight colour

2012-04-27 Thread Mnyb
sponsford wrote: > Is there a good way of powering off/rebooting without just pulling the > plug? If you already are in a ssh session just type reboot at the prompt and hit enter. Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevice

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Squeezebox Touch: WIFI or WIred that's my question?!?

2012-04-27 Thread guidof
albertone74 wrote: > Guido you are right I have noticed that option as well but I have never > used it so far. At some point I would like to do that sort of > comparison! > Good point about the possibility of updating the Linux distro through > the optical drive. I am so tempted to place the orde