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Gear / Technical Help => Playback Forum => Topic started by: bl6216@yahoo.com on January 02, 2007, 09:28:13 PM
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I want to know if any use the Squeezebox or the Transporter and if so what do they think about how it works. I also would like to know if any one knows of any other devices that dose the same thing.
-Brian
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a number of peiople use them. They are beloved here. I've got slimserver running, and its truly awesome.
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I have an SB3 that I run wireless in my living room so I don't have to run a CAT5 cable to from my office and so I have a small, easy interface for accessing my music catalog. I'd rather not have a laptop floating around my very small LR for accessing music. I run the SB3 digi-out to my Sony STR-DA3000ES, mostly at 16/44 for older and studio recordings, 24/48 for newer.
The SB3 interface works well for finding music to which one wants to listen, i.e. one already knows the intended recording. Since it scrolls through recording entries one-by-one, it's not great for browsing, however. As a result, I run Foobar on my desktop in my office and simply run soundcard digi-out to my DAC / rest of playback. An SB3 for listening same-room as the HDD-based music catalog seems like a waste to me.
Wireless comments...
FWIW, at first I had trouble running 24/48 over my Linksys Wireless-G access point (WAP54g v.2). My WAP was 5 thick, old-construction walls away from the SB3, and I had trouble with skipping. I also had trouble with reliable wireless for PC in the same room. Not so much a squeezebox issue as a wireless issue, it turns out. I applied a hacked firmware to my access point to increase it's broadcast strength, and no problems since. Couldn't be happier. I'm totally media-free now in my listening: PC > DAC > Audio Experiences Symphony / McCormack DNA-1 > VSA VR-1s in the office, PC > router > wireless > SB3 digi-out > STR-DA3000ES > VR-1 for living room, and iAudio M3 for portable audio. Love it across the board.
And finally, keep in mind if you move to HDD-based playback, you may want to consider adding redundancy to your PC HDD storage setup, like RAID or reasonable redundancy without RAID (http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,65307.0.html).
The SlimServer s/w's available for download to try out. SlimServer's a little slow to catalog my music every time I re-scan, but...no biggie, I just let it run overnight. For reference, I have 576 "albums" (mostly live, still ripping and storing my studio discs), ~13k songs. No problems with lag-time browsing on the SB3. Any lag-times I've experienced have cleared up when I swap fresh batteries into the remote.
In four simple words: I love my SB3!
I don't know of alternative devices with the same feature set, though it wouldn't surprise me if they exist.
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Dose any one know if any one can mod a SB3 to do 24/96.
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Dose any one know if any one can mod a SB3 to do 24/96.
Not that I know of. I know one of the recent releases of Slim Server (or maybe it's the SB3 firmware) will resample 24/96 recordings to to 48 on-the-fly, but I don't think they plan on supporting 96k with the SB3.
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Dose the Transporter. I see it is a lot more and found a lot on mods for it. Here is the link.
http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/
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Hey skalinder, I don't have an SB3 yet, but intend to get one, but I am still running slimserver, primarily to stream my collection to my work computer. One of the features that I love about slim server is the ability to randomly select albums, as I am way, way, way to indecisive to pick something to listen to. Does the SB3 have an equivalent of a random album select?
thanks man
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Does the SB3 have an equivalent of a random album select?
You can just hit 'Add' while on any directory and everything under it is added to the current playlist. There is a 'shuffle' button that toggles between 'no shuffle', 'shuffle by album' and 'shuffle by song'. I regularly listen on shuffle and then de-randomize when I hear something I want to hear more of.
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Does the SB3 have an equivalent of a random album select?
You can just hit 'Add' while on any directory and everything under it is added to the current playlist. There is a 'shuffle' button that toggles between 'no shuffle', 'shuffle by album' and 'shuffle by song'. I regularly listen on shuffle and then de-randomize when I hear something I want to hear more of.
f yeah. Beautiful.
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What do they go for new and used. Where did you get them from.
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299 brand new direct from slimdevices. Used, they hold they value extremely well at the moment, maybe 225-250 at best.
slimdevices.com
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Hey Daryan what do you think about the Bolder mod for the Squeezebox and what mods did you get.
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Hey skalinder, I don't have an SB3 yet, but intend to get one, but I am still running slimserver, primarily to stream my collection to my work computer. One of the features that I love about slim server is the ability to randomly select albums, as I am way, way, way to indecisive to pick something to listen to. Does the SB3 have an equivalent of a random album select?
thanks man
Yes, the SB3 can do this, since Slim Server is running. I noticed it last night (but didn't try it out).
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Yes, the SB3 can do this, since Slim Server is running. I noticed it last night (but didn't try it out).
Random on 48,000 tracks is a trip ;)
That it is (though I don't have nearly that many in my library).
I think I'll try to random album thing tonight and see how that works. I prefer to listen to albums rather than single songs anyway.