Note that after changing tags with mp3tag (or any other tagging program)
you have to do a clear-and-rescan on Squeezebox Server to get the
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password and such.
Of course, if the infrared works for setup then you may as well use the
regular IR remote that comes with the Touch...
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5) Thanks - I didn;t know that. I assume one needs to ssh into the
device to do this?
Nope, it's right there in the Touch's menus. I'm not near my Touch
right now, but I think it's under Settings Advanced.
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about Oz, but in North America most people think PC=Windows. It would be
good to be clearer that SBS is available for Linux PCs as well.
But all in all a good review, and I completely agree with the main
points about the pros and cons.
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genuine FLAC encoder. Something that also does secure ripping and/or
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checking out. I
suggest re-ripping with another program and see if the problem
disappears.
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(even a low power Atom
box or sheevaplug) the Touch is extremely reliable.
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souwalker;580002 Wrote:
Will this SB server software or the Touch able to read his external
drive attached to his mac?
Sure. More precisely, SBS will read the music on the external drive,
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i have to agree with aubuti,but if you want to spend a bit more money
because you think more money means better then use cat6a u/ftp solid
cable.regards scott.
:-)
And in the same vein, I should have said that cat7 also sounds the same
as the other cats mentioned earlier
on your PC or
NAS. Instead you would connect to mysqueezebox.com, which is an SBS
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laptop to run SBS. If you like you can also experiment with connecting
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cable has the same impact on sound quality: zero. And the corollary is
that simple facts like that don't stop some people from spending more
than necessary because of some perceived benefit that isn't really
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_you_ prefer.
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should also check to make sure the tags are okay on the
files you want to keep, and if they're not okay, edit them until they
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...and be glad that you hadn't gotten to the point of replacing the
power supply, because that would have voided your warranty. That is,
you didn't finish 'this project'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=570366#post570366), did
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a factory reset.
People here have reported generally good expeiences with Logitech
warranty returns. Your case is a bit more complicated because, strictly
speaking, you voided your warranty the minute to connected that
non-standard power supply. Good luck.
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something about the update process goes wrong, or if there is a
particular problem with the new firmware itself.
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of the software players like Squeezeplay or SoftSqueeze is a
very good way to test drive a SB, especially if you keep in mind that
an actual SB is much much better than any of the software players.
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fab4_7.6.0_r9075.bin). You can then put
it on a USB stick or a SD memory card, plug the stick or card into the
Touch, and then do Settings Advanced Software update.
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to reboot).
Be advised that 7.6 is beta software (some would say that 7.5.2 is beta
and 7.6.0 is alpha) with major changes that are still being made. It can
break on you at any time. I routinely use beta versions, but you have to
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Standard .m3u format playlists (the kind that SBS creates) are simple
text files that list the pathnames and filenames of the tracks in the
playlist, in the desired order. So neither you nor SBS should ever put
the actual tracks in the playlist folder.
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controls are a good idea.
But maybe these things won't matter that much if you're mostly looking
for background music in the kitchen, where acoustics usually suck
anyway.
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, but it's certainly not plug-n-play, and quite possibly too slow to
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Nothing high-end, but music anywhere I want it, and it's '100% wind
powered' (http://www.cleancurrents.com/). MSI Wind desktop (Ubuntu
10.04) feeding: Living room: SB Touch + SBC NAD C325 BEE
Vandersteen 1; Kitchen/Dining: SB2 + SBC AudioSource Amp100 2
.
And, has been pointed out before, if the Touch and SBR are sync'd, your
IR commands for stop, play, pause, change playlist, etc apply equally
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was a conscious decision related to hardware limitations. I
doubt you'll ever see many (any?) plugins for TinySBS on the current
Touch hardware.
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massive thread (1400+ posts!) on SrvrPowerCtrl'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521[/url) and search
for LightsOut.
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Mars Warrior;566242 Wrote:
Leaves me with the Controller waking-up the server problem while the
Touch is shutdown, ie no player active...
If you connect the SBC to mysb.com before shutting down the server I
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consumption in Iceland, Norway,
Finland, Canada, Qatar, Sweden, Luxembourg, and Kuwait. I'm confused.
(Not really -- I know yanks consume too much energy. I just don't see
why you dragged out evidence _against_ the point you were trying to
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player active is in advance of triggering an alarm.
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, not applets), which are only
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reasons, but that's the first one that comes to mind at present.
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There was this thread (and threads referenced therein) with posts by a
couple people who got NFS mounts with Touch:
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HuguesB;564201 Wrote:
IMHO, even if the shuffle mode is on, I think it would be more natural
to begin with the selected track, and let the SB choose the next ones.
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to appear, I'd
suggest buying the FitPC2 and having your programmer friend help set it
up. It is sure to be a much easier install than the LaCie NAS you were
asking for help on.
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Welcome. Do you have shuffle mode on?
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Which server are you using? On regular SBS you can already do it with
peterw's plugin. On TinySBS there is iPeng, and possibly a future
update of peterw's work. On mysb.com there's nothing, and pretty
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right about the low price implying low specs, but it
could also be priced low because it appears to be a discontinued model.
All they had on the LaCie site was 1TB models and larger.
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have a USB drive that you will use for your music
library. It's inexpensive, powerful enough, demands little electricity,
and is well-supported by the community. Another good option to look at
is the Vortexbox Appliance, although that is more expensive.
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reasons for wanting to do things this way, but
I don't really get it yet.
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The CLI is a function of the server, not the player. If you mean is the
CLI the same for the regular Squeezebox Server and the Touch's built-in
server (TinySBS), then I am pretty sure the answer is yes.
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I just saw your other post in the Dev forum. Where are you that the Duet
is not available? Although the standalone SB Duet _Receiver_ is out of
stock most places, I haven't heard reports of supply issues with the
Duet package.
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If you know of a location that has the Duet Package in stock that ships
in the US I'd love to know (or even the Receiver standalone).
In stock at amazon.com (ships from and sold by Triplenet Pricing).
Price $365.
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already.
This, I'm afraid, is one of the downsides of buying into a closed
system. Unless you can get root access to the command shell, you're at
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flipflopping of firmware updates/downdates. The main exception to this
is the older players like SB2 or SB3/Classic, which aren't getting as
many firmware updates of late.
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Are you sure that's designed for Touch? I know there's a 'snowflakes'
plugin for the IP3K devices, and that certainly wouldn't work on the
Touch. I haven't heard of anyone writing a new 'snowflakes' for the
Touch, but that doesn't mean no one has.
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that I do tend to move things around from time
to time. But maybe seeing a nice installation would help me take the
plunge.
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requirements don't
say you need to have a home network because technically speaking you
don't, but the expectation is that most users of NMPs will have a home
network.
Do you not have a home network at all, even a wired router?
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be a lot easier. And probably
more secure as well. Decent consumer wireless routers are available for
around US$50, so that would be my advice.
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Settings Advanced. To get the full
range of choices you will need to enable 3rd party applets.
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. After that you
probably need to use the Touch's menu to start the upgrade (Settings
Advanced Software update).
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is
the nickname for Radio (as in Baby Boom), and that Caleb was one of the
lead developers for the Radio).
Code:
-Felix:- Caleb: I know hardware supports IR Blasting on Fab4. How about Baby?
-Caleb:- Nope. Baby-no-blasty.
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advanced tweaks to the Touch's
operating system until you have a better handle on what you're doing in
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souwalker;558635 Wrote:
If I disable the Touch to decode FLAC, what is going to decode this
format?
The NAS, assuming that the QNAP is capable of it, which I honestly
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doesn't say anything is wrong with using a
router or switch, does he?
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Kill-A-Watts are fine for what they are, but they're not exactly
professional devices. Try it on a similarly low-watt device and see
what it tells you. Or try to borrow a better meter from an electrician.
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But that shouldn't be a big worry unless you have an absolutely huge
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, and right now I can't test it because my Touch is refusing
to connect to mysb.com.
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To be honest, I don't know if the 12v ps is okay, but I doubt it. I
certainly can't recommend using it.
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It's still a beta, but a lot of users report it to be better than 7.5.0
because it fixes many of the bugs in 7.5.1. I suggest deciding for
yourself based on (1) are you having problems with bugs in 7.5.0, and
(2) are they fixed in 7.5.1 beta.
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Not seeing the problem here. Is it possible that the SB is sync'd to
another SB on which the crossfade is switched on?
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If the feature to which they refer is indeed SQLite, then no, because
with 7.5.0 the Touch's internal server is already using SQLite (with no
MySQL option). Presumably there will be other features/fixes in 7.6 that
will affect TinySC/TinySBS.
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It's available now as _beta_ software, from
downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly. If you use it, be forewarned that it
has bugs and will be constantly changing until it is released. The
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, not by SBS.
Btw, when you change the displayed sort order there is no need to
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Gazjam;547130 Wrote:
You DID say the setting was in Server Software rather than the Touch
itself? ;)
guilty as charged
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a new nightly comes
out. Meanwhile, 7.6.0 is still most definitely beta. See here:
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/ and here:
http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.6.
Look for a 7.6.0 release at the first link, and read the top line of
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the SB line (or any similar product where the price is undercut).
Then who's going to handle the bilingual French/English retail boxes?
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elsewhere. That will show Logitech that
Canadians are price sensitive.
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a screen
that's in common use in phones, GPS units, and other things. And
compared to CDP displays
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the playlist screen, or are you saying you can't read the NP screen
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it with the
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page on album artwork is a
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Personally I name them cover.jpg and put them in the same folder as the
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I'm pretty sure it is one of the many configuration options that is not
available in the Touch's built-in server (aka TinySBS). TinySBS is
quite likely capable of doing it, but there is no user interface for
setting it at present.
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volume sync would still work with TinySBS, whether its relative to
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to that
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, then users who are
really bothered by having a featuer on an ip3k player that isn't on a
SqueezeOS player can remove it from the old players at their
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I've had no problems with the Touch keeping time, unlike the Radio
which for a while wasn't re-sync'ing with the server, and was losing ~1
minute/week on its internal clock.
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than a usual SB setup, but don't be over-optimistic and think that it's
as foolproof as operating a toaster.
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. Just wanted to point out that there are plenty of
comparisons you can read already.
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I haven't bothered to check all of them, but certainly Album Review and
Biography work very nicely on the Touch, assuming you are running SBS
on a computer or NAS and not the Touch's built-in SBS.
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correctly on the Touch, and provide more specific
details than -shows multiple albums, different artwork, etc.-. From
there it should be easier to troubleshoot your problem.
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I had forgotten about that. That's basically the same functionality as
SDT on an SB Controller. Greg did a beta SDT screensaver, with forecast
info in a very small font that bounced around the Touch's screen. It may
still be in his testing repository.
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no, probably because that's usually a function of the preamp or
receiver, not the source.
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a factor
reset of the Touch. If it's a real drive, you may have discovered a new
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