Logitech Squeezebox Touch Owners Thread - Page 7

Originally Posted by duffer_mcmulliga

iPeng: full featured, but it seems to want to put every song in a playlist before it will play. Just clicking on the first song in an album plays that song, but nothing else. Really a headache to get working.

Originally Posted by duffer_mcmulliga

Playlists have been a royal PIA.

Originally Posted by fiske

Hi there!

Have listened to music that I didn't know I had in my collection.

Originally Posted by fiske

Have listened to music that I didn't know I had in my collection.

Originally Posted by Rick Col

Hi everyone, I got my Squeezebox Touch a few days ago and I am loving it. So easy to setup and sounds great.

My only question is on the server startup options. What do you guys set it to? Don't start automatically, Automatically run at login or Automatically run at system start? I always shut down the computer at night. Just wondering what is the best way.

Thanks,

Rick

Originally Posted by Rick Col

Hi everyone, I got my Squeezebox Touch a few days ago and I am loving it. So easy to setup and sounds great.

My only question is on the server startup options. What do you guys set it to? Don't start automatically, Automatically run at login or Automatically run at system start? I always shut down the computer at night. Just wondering what is the best way.

Thanks,

Rick

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

None. Whatever format the mch signal is in works for me. All Channel Stereo does not simulate multichannel, it is just a party mode.

Originally Posted by CDLehner

Let me follow-up on this; again, I don't plan to make a hobby of this...I'm a 2-channel guy, and not really looking to get into multi-channel. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious.

Normally, when I'm ripping DVD-A, I just take the hi-res 2-channel tracks; but out of curiousity, I pulled a few multi's and would like to check them out.

I have a streamer in the HT that will pass multi-channel...but as I asked before, what "dsp" or "setting" should I have my Pre/Pro on for "true" multi-channel audio? Kal said "none", but I don't understand what he means by "none"; I assume you don't want "fake" processing, like "all-channel stereo"...where it takes 2 channels and makes-up its own multi-channel mix...but I don't know that my Pre/Pro can be put in "no" mode?

So what do I set it at?

CD

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Direct is the equivalent of "no" on most prepros and will permit it to use the native decoder for the particular file, if it has one. LPCM is the default for multichannel. Which one do you use and what prepro do you have?

Originally Posted by CDLehner

Kal, I have a Integra DTC-9.8, and I think you're right; I decided to RTFM and I think "Direct" should do the trick. I'm so used to "Direct" bypassing circuitry for a pure 2-channel signal, that I didn't even think about it as the way to also get multi. Again, my brain just isn't wired that way yet.

CD

Originally Posted by CDLehner

Let me follow-up on this; again, I don't plan to make a hobby of this...I'm a 2-channel guy, and not really looking to get into multi-channel. But I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious.

Originally Posted by CDLehner

I have to wonder if KR secretly smiled a little when I said this, knowing that once upon a time he was likely a devout 2-channel guy as well...and that he knew, perhaps better than anyone, what I was getting myself into.

This is my way of saying I thoroughly enjoyed my little multi-channel experiment! I mean, of the extremely limited catalog that I have right now, the Neil Young Greendale was no great shakes (doesn't really lend itself to the multi-channel thing), and the same goes for the Diana Krall title I have. However, Talking Heads in multi-channel; I just grabbed the opening tracks from a few titles, but holy smokes...songs like I Zimba, Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On), Burning Down The House, seem like they were absolutely made for multi-channel!

And...because I'm doing some work in the HT...I didn't even have my Center hooked-up (and the Sub was set-up for movies, so it wasn't exactly integrating smoothly into the mix)...and I was still pretty wowed by 4.1...lol. I could see where someone would get hooked, and go about setting up 5 really musical speakers for dedicated multi-channel listening.

So...did we ever determine if the Touch will pass this multi-channel signal or not?

CD

Originally Posted by tmauceri

I just read the review of the Squeezebox Touch in Absolute Sound and I am very interested in using this device as a dedicated music server. My intent is to buy a 2 terabyte USB drive for storage and connect via optical to my Denon AVR. I would use iTunes to rip to Applelossless. My initial questions are, what brand USB drive works well with the Sqeezebox? Is Applelossless the format for the best quality sound from CDs? I have a large collection of SACDs and DVDAs is there a way to rip those formats? I would appreciate any input from the experts on this forum even if not specified in my questions. Thank you.

Originally Posted by CDLehner


I can't imagine any one brand of drive is "better" than another (unless someone posts that there are compatibility issues or something; I don't roll that way). Everyone has had bad experiences with one brand or another, which leads them to believe some other brand...that they just happen not to have issues with...is "better". Read reviews where you plan to buy it, and look in the ratings and try to avoid drives that maybe overheat, have a high failure rate, or have firmware issues.

Are far as the format that has the "best sound quality" to rip to, stay lossless...and if you're intent on using iTunes, I suppose Apple lossless is fine.

DVD-As can be ripped, but not in iTunes. DVD-As, IMO, are relatively simple...if you know your way around the PC, and understand ripping; do some reading on DVD-A Explorer and try and locate a guide from Computer Audiophile. It would be news to me if the hi-res layer of SACDs could be ripped; and I thought I knew everything there was to know about the subject.

CD

Originally Posted by tmauceri

I just read the review of the Squeezebox Touch in Absolute Sound and I am very interested in using this device as a dedicated music server. My intent is to buy a 2 terabyte USB drive for storage and connect via optical to my Denon AVR. I would use iTunes to rip to Applelossless. My initial questions are, what brand USB drive works well with the Sqeezebox? Is Applelossless the format for the best quality sound from CDs? I have a large collection of SACDs and DVDAs is there a way to rip those formats? I would appreciate any input from the experts on this forum even if not specified in my questions. Thank you.

Originally Posted by tmauceri

I'm not set on iTunes just very familiar with it. What would you recommend for ripping?

Originally Posted by IcemanDallas


Don't buy a drive that gets it's power from the USB connection. Some Touch users have had problems with those.

Originally Posted by CDLehner


Listen, I'm not an iGuy, but OTOH I don't know that Steve Jobs is any more the devil than Bill Gates is. People talk about being "locked-in" to the Apple world; it is "closed", and they like to control everything about their devices...but, they also work just fine.

iTunes is certainly easy...but there is some talk about how it's not the most accurate ripper. dbpoweramp to FLAC is about the hi-end de-facto standard (for non-iGuys that is). Some might try to sell you on EAC, but they just haven't heard that dbpoweramp is as good, and ten-times easier to set-up yet.

BTW, I hope you see that Iceman said to steer-away from drives that get their power from USB.

CD

Originally Posted by CDLehner

iTunes is certainly easy...but there is some talk about how it's not the most accurate ripper. dbpoweramp to FLAC is about the hi-end de-facto standard (for non-iGuys that is). Some might try to sell you on EAC, but they just haven't heard that dbpoweramp is as good, and ten-times easier to set-up yet.

Originally Posted by Jarrod2750

A couple of questions for confirmation :
I can copy my iTunes library to a USB hard drive and it will work with squeezebox?

Where can I downlaod a free copy of dbpoweramp

Originally Posted by CDLehner

In a word, NO. Again, I don't use an USB drive with SB...so I'll step lightly here; but the SB Touch (and all other SBs for that matter) needs SB server software to feed the unit that plays. That software used to have to run on a separate PC (or NAS device) if you wanted to play your own, stored files (you could play stuff from the Internet without having to have a PC on)...which was one of the "drawbacks" of SB.

Now, with the Touch, you can run that SB server on the USB drive...so you don't need a PC on when you want to use it. However, you can't just copy your files from iTunes to a USB and rock-n-roll. For one, obviously, you need to set-up SB server on the drive first...and two, depending on what iTunes format you ripped to, I don't think they're all compatible with SB. But, if I recall correctly, you were going to rip into Apple Lossless...which is compatible with SB.

You can DL dbpoweramp here http://www.dbpoweramp.com/. Google is awesome.

CD

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson

Sorry. There is a tiny SBS built into the Touch itself and that makes it cable of playing tunes from a library on a USB drive. It is clunkier and slower than using the SBS on the host but it works.

Originally Posted by Jarrod2750

Thanks I appreciate the response. Is there an easy way to convert the hard drive I'm going to use with SB to a server. Or does it make sense to only copy over the iTunes library. Hopefeully this makes sense and it was a follow up question to the prior posts.

Originally Posted by CDLehner

It is? It doesn't need to be on an SD card or anything?

That I didn't know.

CD