Wow SBGK - I've been looking at your blog - and its very interesting.
For those of you who have replied about not bothering with tweaks take a
look at SBGK's blog! This guy is a masterful tweaker and is getting
results.
Of course you need a resolving system to appreciate the tweaks no doubt
Hi, I have this morning contacted customer support, and they could not
have been more helpful, when I explained that I had followed the forum
advise they agreed to send out a new Touch. So a big thank you to all
who tried to help me.Doug
Hi,
Would this work with the Arcam rWave? Would be very interesting as a
living room ambient audio solution The Touch could sit near the sofa for
the whole family to use whilst wirelessly playing to an Arcam rCube.
It seems that it is impossible to switch, on LST, between listening to
PC based music via LMS and internet radio.
The method to get from streaming music off an HD to listening to radio
is (a) turn off the server (or /PC/NAS) (b) turn off LST (c) turn LST
back on.
There's no switch for going
Just received a 24/192 wav recording on disc from Soundkeeper
Recordings. Copied it to my HD and attempted to play it back on the
Touch. Plays ok but it's in slow motion! anyone come across similar and
found a cure?
Ali
Ali Tait wrote:
Just received a 24/192 wav recording on disc from Soundkeeper
Recordings. Copied it to my HD and attempted to play it back on the
Touch. Plays ok but it's in slow motion! anyone come across similar and
found a cure?
Are you using the EDO output app? If so at present you
I'm new to LST as my last two threads show.
Setting up the LST was a nightmare of frustration repeated attempts to
get it to do what was wanted plus workrounds I discovered to make it do
simple things the software won't. Just the simple stuff, no clever
plugins or w.h.y.
(Here, I must thank
If by 'web' you mean the internet, then
1. mysb.com is on the web
2. LMS is on your local pc (if you installed it)
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I'm not up on all these mods, when does 7.8 come out?
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Exactly as I thought, thx.
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Is there any likelihood of LST software being modified to play mp4
audio?
It would be a boon and competitors such as SONOS already provide it.
TIA
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Useful info, Gary.
Looks like there's no point in using USB on the LST.
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Not GUI, just UI. IOW the user experience is not simple, intuitive or
helpful especially on the LST (LMS MySB are a bit better I must
admit).
The software is typical open source: developed by a bunch of geeks with
little or no top down design and no thought for useability. as a couple
of forum
I don't use a Touch, but I do use two Squeezebox Radios and a Squeezebox
Classic. On the Classic, there's a menu item entitled mysqueezebox.com
which switches the Squeezebox from LMS to the web service. LMS is still
running throughout, and switching between the two sources is pretty
easy.
Robert
Ali Tait wrote:
I'm not up on all these mods, when does 7.8 come out?
I have no idea about a release date - ask logitech... You can install
the beta of 7.8 server and this will get 7.8 firmware which I believe
will work now. But if you prefer to only use release software then you
will need
Well I'm not an IT pro, but there is no need to switch at all if your
local LMS server is still running. Everything that is available under
mysb.com is also available through LMS. You want internet radio? Go
through the internet radio menu. You want a Favorite? Go through the
Favorites menu.
If
I believe the gotcha will be to actually configure the MySB account in
the server's web interface under Settings-gt;MySqueezebox.com.
If that's set correctly the problem is probably one of the server losing
contact to MySB, here a server restart usually helps.
Seems to be quite a lot of information on how to set up a Touch over at
the Logitech website. Mind you, I've always found Squeezeboxes and LMS
(in its various releases) quite easy to set up on Linux systems,
including a QNAP NAS.
What specific problems have you experienced? I saw your posting
why isn't there a comprehensive manual describing, from first
principles
You're perfectly at liberty to add/improve the Wiki -
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Category:Beginners_Guide_Pages
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By mp4 do you mean DRM protected audio ?
LST can play m4a files in mpeg4 format.
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So, my question is - why isn't there a comprehensive manual describing,
from first principles, how to set up LST and then, in more detail, ALL
of the more sophisticated stuff e,g. 3rd party plugins? OK, I know folks
here will quote open source at me but the average buyer isn't
Mardler wrote:
The software is typical open source: developed by a bunch of geeks with
little or no top down design and no thought for useability. .
The LMS is not really open source. The bulk of it was developed by
Slimdevices (although in the first few years, I believe there were
Mardler wrote:
Useful info, Gary.
Looks like there's no point in using USB on the LST.
It is the potentially worst way to use it. That said, my brother uses a
TOUCH with attached USB for the last couple of years with no issues. He
has about 50,000 mp3 files on about a 4 year old 1TB USB
Mardler wrote:
Not GUI, just UI. IOW the user experience is not simple, intuitive or
helpful especially on the LST (LMS MySB are a bit better I must
admit).
The software is typical open source: developed by a bunch of geeks with
little or no top down design and no thought for useability.
Thanks for the help. I'm converting to FLAC as I type.
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Ok, converted to FLAC and it still plays in slow motion. Plays fine on
my laptop via VLC.
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This list of reasonably priced DACs could go on, but they have gotta be
good to sigificantly improve on the SBT DAC... so I will add two more
excellent DACs to this list:
Stan Beresfords new Bushmaster DAC
Goldenote DAC-7 (Italian DAC but superb).
Ali Tait wrote:
Ok, converted to FLAC and it still plays in slow motion. Plays fine on
my laptop via VLC.
Do you have native flac playback disabled on the filetypes setting
menu?
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By mp4 do you mean DRM protected audio ?
LST can play m4a files in mpeg4 format.
yes, the TOUCH already natively plays itunes purchased (or ripped with
itunes) files. But I think the ones *without* DRM are m4a rather than
m4p (which are DRM protected). I'm not sure what a mp4
Looked in filetypes, and I have flac in the flac section set to
disabled. I looked at the WAV section and changed flac in that to
flac/sox and now the wav file will play at normal speed, but it drops in
and out. The flac copy still plays slow.
In my opinion all those wonderfull tweaks of SBGK only work in his
imagination. Not many people on this forum take him serious. Some claims
he makes are just impossible. I have added him to my ignore list long
ago. But if you want to try out and test his suggestions please feel
free
aubuti wrote:
It's impossible to respond to any of the usability issues you raise
because they are so general that there is no idea where to start. I will
say that I am not an IT pro and really had no problem figuring out the
SB basics when I started using them several years ago. Perhaps
All very interesting comments; I agree that poor documentation isn't
limited to Logitech.
I had looked at all the various stuff I could find, fiddled about a lot
and this, together with the support of a few forum members (garym, I
thought that was you!) I've got the thing into a much more usable
I mean *.mp4. I have loads of such files; WMP plays them, SONOS plays
them but SB (and R83i) doesn't.
They're video files as often found on You Tube and other internet
sites.
SB plays m4a fine.
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All very interesting comments; I agree that poor documentation isn't
limited to Logitech.
I had looked at all the various stuff I could find, fiddled about a lot
and this, together with the support of a few forum members (garym, I
thought that was you!) I've got the thing
Mardler wrote:
I mean *.mp4. I have loads of such files; WMP plays them, SONOS plays
them but SB (and R83i) doesn't.
They're video files as often found on You Tube and other internet
sites.
SB plays m4a fine.
aha. video files. that's why I didn't know what they were. nope, far as
I
Ali Tait wrote:
Looked in filetypes, and I have flac in the flac section set to
disabled. I looked at the WAV section and changed flac in that to
flac/sox and now the wav file will play at normal speed, but it drops in
and out. The flac copy still plays slow.
I'm using the Controller, and
Mardler wrote:
I mean *.mp4. I have loads of such files; WMP plays them, SONOS plays
them but SB (and R83i) doesn't.
They're video files as often found on You Tube and other internet
sites.
SB plays m4a fine.
I think it's possible to extend the LMS mp4 handling by adding a
Mardler wrote:
I mean *.mp4.
Ok, that's clearer now, since *.m4a files are MP4 audio (MP4 being a
container). Do you know what the encoding is for the audio in your
*.mp4 files? I'm no expert on codecs, but it would seem that if the
audio in the *.mp4 files is encoded in something that SB
As one who has actually done a clock upgrade I can say that it DOES
significantly improve the sound of the analog outs. By clock upgrade I
mean replacing the two audio crystals that generate clocks that are used
to derive the timing for the data going to the DAC chip and the S/PDIF
outs (coax and
I also use the touch connected to a usb drive with no issues.
The good thing is that you don't have to swich on any kind of pc/nas so
you are completely independent and less consuming electricity.
The bad thing is that when you want to transfer more music, you have to
unplug the the drive and
eddyther wrote:
The bad thing is that when you want to transfer more music, you have to
unplug the the drive and reescan again.
Why? You should be able to transfer files over the network with the
drive still attached to the Touch. Then you do need to rescan, but a
new and changed scan should
At this point I think you need the architectural model of the squeezebox
system, I think it will make things go a lot smoother for you.
There are three components in a squeezebox system: player, server and
controller. Each of these is connected via a network.
Think of the player part as black
Waldo Pepper wrote:
Hi
On my old W7 laptop I used to be able to type 192.168.1.133 into the
toolbar on Explorer and see the contents of the drive plugged into the
Touch and use this for adding more music albeit slowly over WiFi.
On my new laptop it switches to Firefox and tries to open
No probs, folks, I found an mp4 to mp3 converter so will try that.
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No probs, folks, I found an mp4 to mp3 converter so will try that.
excellent. you might post link or info here, so folks looking at this
thread in the future have an answer they can use. (i.e, documentation.
;-)
Outstanding overview John. This should be a sticky or part of wiki.
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Not a clue if it works OK but here's the link:-
http://www.mp4converter.net/mp4-to-mp3-converter-win.html
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Thanks again for the help, I'll give it a go.
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nunovi wrote:
Hi,
Would this work with the Arcam rWave? Would be very interesting as a
living room ambient audio solution The Touch could sit near the sofa for
the whole family to use whilst wirelessly playing to an Arcam rCube.
No mention is made of it requiring a driver, so it is most
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