Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch + which compact powered speakers?

2022-02-25 Thread sodface
I bought a set of Neumi speakers, I posted about them here: https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?114270-Aopen-Chromebase-Mini-with-Alpine-Linux-Squeezelite-and-Jivelite=1024799=1#post1024799 They are pretty nice I guess but probably don't fit your definition of compact.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running without Internet Connection

2019-03-20 Thread sodface
Though slim on details, another possible solution here (a swap partition on the USB stick?) https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?109026-Is-it-possible-to-disable-the-mysb-com-integration-completely-on-the-Touch=913388=1#post913388 silentcreek wrote: > Good catch! :cool: > Yes, I have

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running without Internet Connection

2019-03-20 Thread sodface
joegorin wrote: > After thinking about it, I reject the bad file hypothesis without > further experiments. My logic: > > Assume there is exactly one bad file out of 40 hours of music. The > probability of coming upon that file when randomly shuffling is 63% in > 40 hours, and 95% in five days.

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running without Internet Connection

2019-03-19 Thread sodface
Earlier in the thread, mherger said: > It doesn't wait 5 days before crapping out, but it does work for 5 days, > plays music. At some point it can no more. This can be an artwork cover > too big, or the screensaver displaying large images. But it will fail > for whatever reason. Lack of

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running without Internet Connection

2019-03-14 Thread sodface
Fizbin wrote: > My own hypothesis at the time I owned the Touch, using the internal > server, was more along the lines of memory leak. The longer I used it > the more it would crap out. I ended up shutting it off after use. Of > course, once I wised up and installed LMS on my PC, all was

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running without Internet Connection

2019-03-13 Thread sodface
kidstypike wrote: > The Touch's inbuilt server doesn't need an internet/wifi connection to > serve local music, and doesn't "phone home". It will play local music > forever, until the user starts to send multiple button presses, then it > just can't handle it and "cr@ps out". User then needs to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running without Internet Connection

2019-03-13 Thread sodface
Not that it matters or changes reality, but, I agree with joegorin on this. A product that includes a local music server instance and includes ports to connect media locally should be able to play local music without an internet connection, and apparently does but only for 5 days or so. If an

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Running without Internet Connection

2019-03-03 Thread sodface
Do you have the crimp tool and connector to make an RJ-45 loopback plug? Attached are a couple of pinouts. I think for 10/100, all you'd need is the second one, and you might be able to get by with just cutting one end off of a spare cat5 cable and making the connections as shown, preferably