SCP to
transfer any music files. You only need to navigate to the music
library via WinSCP, as opposed to navigating to the location of the
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Also, did you make sure that the Squeezebox Server program was stopped
before you tried to edit the prefs file? I don't use TinySBS, but I
know that on regular SBS any edits to server.prefs won't take unless
SBS is off when editing the prefs file.
t functions in
WinSCP. WinSCP is much easier because it works like a regular graphical
interface text editor, whereas vi uses very cryptic keystroke commands.
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Some people believe that it degrades the Touch's performance by burning
unnecessary CPU cycles. I'm not convinced of that, but I am sure that
turning off an unused function can't hurt.
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Gillinger;660561 Wrote:
> Download WinSCP, which is an FTP app.
I'm curious: what, if any, advantages are there to using ftp instead of
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I wouldn't hold my breath -- I don't see it as a high, or even a medium,
priority for development. In the meantime, just go that extra 1-2cm and
touch it to get the same effect.
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Just use the standard press-and-hold on an album or track to bring up
the context menu. See post #2.
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waking it up via the SB is a good way to go.
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Nothing high-end, but music anywhere I want it, and it's '100% wind
powered' (http://www.cleancurrents.com/). 'MSI single-core Atom
mini-desktop'
(http://www.neweg
0Hz hum on your speakers (or 60Hz, depending on where
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Sorry, I can't answer that one for you because I run the server software
on a mini pc, not on the Touch. But I'm sure someone else will be able
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ay on the Radio by using the
Radio itself. In that case, the Touch will not show what is playing on
the Radio. On the other hand, it is possible to use the controls on the
Touch to choose something to play on the Radio, skip tracks, control
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uld be the Touch.
Note that the Touch can still be playing tunes at the same time that it
is serving music to the Radio. It can be synchronized, or it can be a
compleletely different track/playlist.
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match the volume on the two, or else your comparisons wont't be much
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> actually it seems slower to enter a folder where I have about 80 files.
Slower than what? Browsing by artists, albums, etc that have already
been scanned after you went into their folders, or something else?
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connected to an AudioSource Amp100 in
the basement, and only run outdoor-rated speaker cable out of the house
and to the speakers. The music is controlled by SB Controller, iPeng on
an iPad Touch, or a laptop. Of course, in my climate indoor speakers
and a SB Touch wouldn't last long outside, even if she
;m not 100% sure about the wisdom of self-powered speakers in an
outdoor setting. It may be fine, but I honestly don't know. In addition
to wet/dry, you also need to consider temperature extremes, especially
cold. If you're in dry climes, with very moderate temps you'll proba
and if so,
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Sure. You can rename all the directories you want hidden so that they
begin with a dot. For example, hide your "photos" directory by renaming
it ".photos". That's the standard way to hide a directory in *nix, and
it keeps the TinySBS scanner from lo
Yes, you can have the Boom stream music from the Touch. At present the
"replacement" for the SB Boom is the SB Radio. It is not known whether
or not there is a "Boom 2" in the works. Personally, I do
but performance wasn't very good as I recall. Search
the forums on "NFS" and "Touch" and you'll find the relevant threads --
I think there are at least 2-3 of them. Here is one of them:
http://forum
You mean the stricter treatment of upper/lower case in tags? You only
have to fix your tags once, and then you're done with that. Imo, even
though 7.6.0 created problems for a lot of users (fortunately it went
smoothly for me), the upgrade to 7.6.1 is worth it.
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d via ethernet? And are you using the
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ng and _holding_ the desired
album/track on the touchscreen. That will give you a context menu, with
options such as play, play next, and add to end of playlist.
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e Touch to that switch. With that arrangement you should
be able to keep the music playing even when the router reboots,
especially if you have static IP addresses for the server and Touch, or
at least reserved DHCP addresses. It would be much easier than
configuring the computer with two
psp;650857 Wrote:
> Where do you go to download previous SBS versions? (I've searched for
> ~45 min and come up empty.)
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/
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(b) never, ever connect to mysqueezebox.com.
There are more complicated ways to avoid the update prompts, but the
approach above is simple and works.
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internet.
The standard setup is to use a home network router. The computer
connects to the router, and so does the Touch. Done.
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You can use the Controller with the Touch's wifi disabled. As you
surmise, the Controller doesn't "talk" directly to the Touch, it goes
through your wifi router.
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for the cost of the WNCE2001 alone. But if you still don't want to go
that route for some reason that's certainly your choice.
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stronger, with one possible exception. If your wifi router is an 'N'
router, then running 'N' from the router to the WNCE2001 may give you
more bandwidth. However, it's still limited to the 2.4GHz band, so if
you h
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For Touch you want the file that begins with 'fab4' and ends with
'.bin'. Which version (eg, r9408, r9471) you want is up to you,
depending on which version of SBS you're running.
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> I just copy the bin file to the root of my attached USB drive and I
> don't have to reboot or power off the touch
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SD card in the Touch. After the
stick/card is recognized, do Settings > Advanced > Software Update on
the Touch's menu and see if it takes. I'm not 100% sure that this will
work, but I'm sure it won't break anything.
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nix and ports are available for Windows and OSX. But if
you're not familiar with it then batch search and replace is as
automatic as it gets for fixing a situation in which you've moved the
track to a completely different place from wh
is written to disk, and then the pc is
powered off completely, so there can be no fan whirring if it is
hibernated. The downside of hibernate is that it takes a little longer
to come out of hibernation than it does to come out of suspend; the
downside of suspend is that the continues to draw some minim
most people who
have tried it said that performance is lousy. If you know your way
around Linux a bit and want to try it, search these forums for Touch
and NFS.
If you can't or don't want to leave the pc on overnight, have you
looked into letting it go into suspend or hibernat
ters, and from the reports I'm seeing from both newbies and
experienced users, it's still only beta quality in far too many
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switching between SBS and mysb without doing the "firmware dance".
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> Yes but offering an update to a version to that below the server is not
> normal, is it?
No, it's not. But I was responding to the OP, whose problem is
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local SBS) that require different player firmware. And it's not as if
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Do a wipe and rescan on the Touch. That will rebuild the database,
wiping out the references to deleted tracks.
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u at least upgraded from the firmware that ships with the
Touch? You should at least try 7.5.5, and if problems continue, try
7.6. But if you can't meet the basic suggestions already given re
powered USB drive, partitions, etc, then you are very likely going to
conti
USB drives or scanning, but it is what it
is. So your best options to me look like trying these simple steps
and/or returning it.
And please do tell what (different) device has the features you cite
and costs the same as an externally-powered USB drive or powered US
ssimistic than
usual because of the extreme heat :-(
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-only device like a Boom 2.
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king up) needs to have a wired network
connection.
Strictly speaking, there is also WoWLAN (Wake on Wireless LAN), but as
far as I can tell that is still pretty obscure (see
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rsonal, and you may prefer the sound of
the Creatives.
Most of all, there is no substitute for actually listening to the
speakers, using music with which you are very familiar. And ideally,
listening to them in the place where you'll be usin
Playing view, touching the screen when Now Playing is active
will cycle through the selected screensavers. One of them is the VU
meters. There may be a way to cycle through them using the IR remote,
but I forget how.
You can also customize various other VU meters wit
sted are $83, $128, $200, and $200. The only ones I've heard have
been the Audioengines, and I think you would be hard-pressed to beat
their sound quality in a $200 powered speaker. But if you get the
chance you really should listen for yourself, even if it means taking
advantage (in the good sen
can rarely be 100%
sure where spammers get your address, but I don't think many -- or even
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anipulate the files
on the USB stick -- including adding new files -- from any other
computer on the network.
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By changing libraries do you mean changing servers? Or changing between
SBS and mysqueezebox.com? It sounds as if one of the libraries is using
the current SBS version (7.5.4) and the other is using an outdated
version. Update the one with 7.5.1 to 7.5.4 and the Touch will be
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gets power when the A5s go into standby mode. I would guess not, but
that's just a guess, and easy enough to test if you have the A5s and
any device with a battery that charges via USB.
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Sounds like you're connected to mysqueezebox.com instead of to SBS. As
Mnyb suggests, try choosing "My Music" on the Touch and then connecting
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Yes, yes, and a very big yes on the last one.
Try them all. You won't break anything.
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#x27;re right that it conflicts
with the Touch, so it's necessary to wipe out that extra stuff if you
want to use the stick with the Touch.
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Also, it may not be a 2.0 vs 3.0 issue at all. Does the thumb drive
have more than one partition, say for example, a special partition that
includes some bundled software such as backup or encryption utilities?
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using a regular file browser (not SBS). So it is definitely a
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n_written_to_disk_. If you create a playlist and
don't save it -- or try to save it but don't succeed for some reason --
then the playlist is only in active memory (ie, not written to disk)
and will get wiped out by a clear and rescan.
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Which "same Music Library File"? If you mean folder, the answer is no.
The location of the database ("index") varies depending on the
operating system. You can find yours by going to the SBS web ui and
selecting Settings > Information and scroll down to where it says Cac
and if you don't see it there, make sure the associated plugin is
installed. You can check that in the web ui using Settings > Plugins.
It's a Logitech plugin (not 3rd party), and I thought it was installed
by default, but maybe the package for your NAS doesn't instal
y want to do re setup of SBS is to choose which genres
to include in your random mixes. For example, I usually don't want my
handful of comedy albums, holiday albums, or classical music coming up
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What version of SBS are you running? The beta 7.6 has some DLNA support,
which may be why your Synology shows up.
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you need help figuring out what you have that's wrong, post back here
with some details about exactly which unwanted files are creeping into
the album, and what the contents of the tags are.
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No time zone setting is bizarre. I thought all current Linux distros had
a time zone setting, although not all of them are very obvious. Are you
sure it isn't buried somewhere in an environment variable or timezone
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Lynxo;634863 Wrote:
> I don't see why it does not save the file to the hard drive for quicker
> playback.
In fact it does save the database to your hard drive.
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definitely not the best way to go.
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g this setting above 100
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Yes, TinySBS has a max playlist size of 100 tracks. Unlike regular SBS
there is no way to alter this on TinySBS. Well, maybe you could hack
the code in TinySBS. But the 100 track limit was put in place for
performance reasons, so even if you hacked it you might not like the
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permutations.
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on exactly what it is you're trying to
accomplish, so I may not be able to help much.
Finally, are all of the tracks in a given compilation album in the same
directory/folder? SBS counts on that to keep compilation tracks from the
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That's a good one: the "Windows ME" folks pointing to other software as
crap.
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COMPILATION tag. But either way the albums and tracks should all
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o if you make a mistake it can be damagin. And it can't be SBS because
SBS has the ultra-safe feature of never writing _anything_ to your files
(SBS is strictly read-only).
Or there's Mr Hyde
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e for
any computer-based audio playback, even the "ordinary-Joe-friendly"
iTunes. And many who can't bother with tags get by fine with Browse
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Explorer (Tools > Map Network Drives). If you are on Linux or OSX you
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ses when it
has been inactive for a while. If I connected a USB drive directly to
the Touch I would probably use spin-down mode, and leave the drive on
but "sleeping" when not in use.
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about 7.6.0, which has a completely different scanner. Unless you're
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ll need to find the files with genres you don't wish to
use and re-tag them. Or if you don't want to eliminate those tags, then
would browsing by genre do? If neither of those help you, you may want
to look at the
Alternative firmware? Is one of the trimmed down debian versions
available for your LS? That's what I've used when I used to run SBS on
older LSs. That could resolve both the safe mode limitation and the
outdated version problem.
RichardLittlewood;631768 Wrote:
> You're right, straight internet radio doesn't require it.
Neither do services like Soma, Pandora, etc. Pretty sure Deezer, too,
though I can't say for sure because it's not available where I am. Just
use them all via SBS running on the Li
c and try streaming from SBS to that. The
software players are not as full-featured or robust as hardware
Squeezeboxes, but they are a great way of trying things out before you
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anager plugin
(http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SettingsManager.html). I'm not sure if
it works with Radio and Touch because those have fewer settings exposed
in the server, but it's worth a look (though the site appears to be
down at
management you need on
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MrC;630352 Wrote:
> It is more important that you use a nearby server.
+1
And note that http://www.pool.ntp.org has nothing to do with "the
generosity of the Debian people." ntp.org is not a Debian enterprise.
It's a public resource that is put out there to be
they supply happens to leak. But it's worth a try.
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knows what the URLs should be, will have to come back
with the correct URLs.
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plug or switching the outlet off via a power strip or switched
outlet. I'd say leave it in standby. In standby it draws about 3-4w.
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le way for you to run your
network audio system, but it would at least resolve some of the puzzles
about why SBS is not working for you when it really _does_ work for
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