Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will Neil Young's PONO be the next SBT

2014-03-16 Thread get.amped
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Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will Neil Young's PONO be the next SBT

2014-03-16 Thread tmauceri
I'm always on the look out for the next thing. I love my SBT/VBA combo but worry about obselesnce or my SBT dying. Everytime I read a review about a digital streamer/music server I'm thinking this is the answer, but then I see the expensive price tag. Maybe later versions of the PONO will stream

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread garym
Matt715 wrote: > Yeah, it's slow but since I live out in the boonies my options are my > current unlimited data 3g VZW plan at $60 a month, satellite (not much > if any better speed plus data caps and bad latency) for more money, or a > data capped VZW 4g plan at $100 mo for the amount of data I

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread Matt715
garym wrote: > probably enough I guess for free pandora stream, but download speeds of > 1-2mbps seem very low to me. I'm guessing you would have real trouble > streaming video. My cable internet download speeds used to be about > 7-10mbps and were ok, but I now have 50-65mbps speeds and this is

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread garym
Matt715 wrote: > Thanks, I will check into 7.8 beta. Nothing else is using bandwidth most > of the time except my laptop when I'm doing something with it. I have a > program that my broadband modem uses that shows data usage. When my > laptop is idle, it's not using any meaningful amount of bandw

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread Matt715
Mnyb wrote: > it's in the 7.8 beta , the 7.8 may eventually be released as a comunity > effort as you can see in other treads the remaining developer with the > help of some 3 party devs try to iron out some off the more iritating > issues . > > Your remaining problem with pandora i cant answer

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread garym
see here for others reporting Pandora problems. I tried to replicate but have not seen the pandora problem. But I'm not using the Pandora Premium (and most reporting the problem are). I'm in the eastern US if that matters. http://forums.logitech.com/t5/MySqueezebox-com-Squeezebox/Pandora-keeps-t

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread Mnyb
Matt715 wrote: > Thanks for the responses. Mnyb, is the bug in the link you provided > fixed in my current software (7.7.3) or is it yet to be released? It was > difficult to tell by the last post in that thread. > > So far it hasn't lost the connection to the server but I have a new > issue wit

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread Matt715
Thanks for the responses. Mnyb, is the bug in the link you provided fixed in my current software (7.7.3) or is it yet to be released? It was difficult to tell by the last post in that thread. So far it hasn't lost the connection to the server but I have a new issue with Pandora. It will start to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread Mnyb
One of the underlying bugs for this is also finally solved . http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17571 Thankyou :) Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP52

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will Neil Young's PONO be the next SBT

2014-03-16 Thread Mnyb
if it could be used as an USB dac you could salvage the investment as a good usb/dac headphone amp . As the music is going to be flac files that ou can use everywhere , I've asked pono team if you can join the music store without a player . Ands I also asked about the quality controll , no answe

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will Neil Young's PONO be the next SBT

2014-03-16 Thread Stratmangler
The dumbed down bit about downloading material should make it a hit. Several million iTunes store users have proved this point. As for format, none of us here have any idea about which format to download material in, have we? ;) The rest of it is going to depend on the interfacing capability - I'

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Will Neil Young's PONO be the next SBT

2014-03-16 Thread garym
As much as I love Neil Young's music, this pono thing just makes me sad. It's so full of FUD type audiophool nonsense that, as Neil Young would say, "it hurts my ears". It turns out that at least it is not going to be some magical new format as initially reported. Instead, they are going to have a

[SlimDevices: Touch] Will Neil Young's PONO be the next SBT

2014-03-16 Thread tmauceri
I've seen quite a few articles on PONO, this interview in TAS answers a lot of questions I and others have had. http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/an-interview-with-neil-young-and-pono-ceo-john-hamm/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email-224

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Radio Paradise 320kbps url no longer working

2014-03-16 Thread slate
oh you gave me a scare when I read the first post neither of my links worked http://72.26.207.67:8014/ http://stream-sd.radioparadise.com:9000/rp_192m.ogg And again Stratmangler saves my day... new link added... and it also have artwork. But remember if Paradise is quiet, it sometimes just

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Radio Paradise 320kbps url no longer working

2014-03-16 Thread Williac
oops, Just connected with your comment that the URL I posted was a shoutcast URL. Thank you, I now see the problem. Most of the sites promoting the URL have incorrectly used the Shoutcast URL as a link. I have located the correct one and is now working fine. Thanks again Chris

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Radio Paradise 320kbps url no longer working

2014-03-16 Thread Williac
Thanks all for replying Toby and Stratmangler. Its a Squeezebox Touch, and the URL worked fine until the firmware update the other week. That URL ( http://72.26.207.67:8014/ ) has been commonly promoted throughout this forum as well as others, and worked fine for over a year. I suspect Naim hav

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Radio Paradise 320kbps url no longer working

2014-03-16 Thread toby10
Williac wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been steaming the Naim exclusive Radio Paradise URL ( > http://72.26.207.67:8014/ ) . > I know I can aceess a 320kbs download via shoutcast which works fine but > to my ears the sound quality is not as good. 1. That is a ShoutCast link, which you say y

[SlimDevices: Touch] IR Blaster support for Touch

2014-03-16 Thread sirwio
Does the IR Blaster plugin work with SB Touch. Reading the SqueezeboxWiki one get the impression that it should work with the limitation that only NEC and RC5 blasting is supported. > SB Touch only supports NEC and RC5 blasting and needs a native NEC or RC5 .conf file. RAW files do not work. I h

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Radio Paradise 320kbps url no longer working

2014-03-16 Thread Stratmangler
Try this http://37.130.228.60/aac-320.m3u Chris :) Stratmangler's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20387 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101163 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Radio Paradise 320kbps url no longer working

2014-03-16 Thread toby10
Which SB player do you have? Are you connecting directly to MySB.com or are you using a local LMS server? Using ShoutCast I see a Radio Paradise 320k stream but it is listed as AAC format. If this is correct and is what you are trying to play, older players can't play this format natively (i.e.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can't resolve IP address for mysqueezebox.com ect.

2014-03-16 Thread canyelles
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