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One of my pet peeves is the almost constant use of cell phones by people while driving, shopping, dining, in line at the store and most especially at the beach. Who the hell wants to have a conversation at the beach? Between the music and the sound of the surf, how could anyone hear to have a conversation? Does no one know how to say, ‘I’ll call you back?’ Well, it has gone beyond that now with phones being used in supposedly relaxing getaway places such as the beach. This is beyond inconsiderate. While on the beach recently, I had to sit there and listen to this woman chatter on for at least an hour as she pranced back and forth in front of me. I couldn’t concentrate on my book. I really wanted to relax, work on my tan and read this great novel but noooo, this chick had to yammer on and on. Take a look at these images and you’ll see what I’m talking about. How could anyone get a chance to read a book when this woman was spending all of this time talking on the phone right in front of me. Cell Phone Rudeness | MoonDog Sports

Ric, Some thoughts - no observed issues here. Are you using the analog outs or digital to a dac? If analog, what is the input sensitivty/range of what you are connecting it to? What track are you using? what are the replay gain tags of the Track? what does the wave form look like in Audacity?

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It would be interesting to see the QA/Test logs for this. Did you Photograph / write down the Serial # ? (Any way of getting / noting firmware # / revision )

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Think 'Judasphone' vs 'Jesusphone' (http://www.yourdictionary.com/computer/jesus-phone) - make sense now?. But your are right, the Judasphone has an Achilles' heel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Think of it like a van, that should have been all shiny and new, but instead repeatedly caught fire. Demand satisfaction!

Well, the BlacX experiment worked well [ATTACH=CONFIG]3387[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]3388[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]3389[/ATTACH] It was a WD 750GB Sata Drive with a mixture of Flac, MPs and video files. searched for and and identified some ~10K files Them scanned them in about 45 minutes, Then about 5 minutes for the art work. Played locally, now serving a Squeezeplay on the PC

Sounds like you should have gone with the IT Crowd advice from the get go http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpmLrz_lSuE

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24 Bit files ... I tested the Touch last night with 24/44.1 24/88.2 and 24/96 FLAC files without issue on the embedded server ALAC versions of the same files scanned OK, but played with no sound This seems confirmed by the Wiki Article Squeezebox Touch as a Home Music Server - SqueezeboxWiki esp. Squeezebox Touch as a Home Music Server - SqueezeboxWiki Note sure the restriction is a hardware issue (as in - will never work) or a software issue ( not deemed high enough priority ) given that people have asked for 24/192 (!) flac , and been told that its technically possible - although it would require a custom software image 24/192 - Squeezebox : Community : Forums esp Squeezebox : Community : Forums - View Single Post - 24/192 My advice would be, that given that if you are using a directly attached storage device with the Touch, dedicate that device to the touch, and transcode files to FLAC when you put them on the storage device, problem solved! I haven't had any issues I can recall with 7.5.0 / 7.5.1 But I already had a good system prior to upgrading. The community feels different, since the departures of the founders, and logitech seems less open than SD. Fewer dev resources, yet upgrades to software and firmware have appeared along with bug fixes. It does what I need to, and I run my own server so not too worried, but the world has changed, depends on what your use case / requirements are. Carl. Touch as server, uses the Touch. I'm using a computer as a SB server. General opinion seems to be that while NAS's are a nice idea in theory, they tend to be compute underpowered, leading to a poor user experience, and often require custom software builds and thus lag the main software development. Decent, powerful enough machines are cheap enough these days - refurbs, cast -offs etc. If you can out them out of the way - that solves the noise issue. Wake on Lan solves the energy/ cost issue. People have pointed out whats the ROI / break even point in buying a new "energy efficient" vs re-purposing an existing machine - plenty of discussions on this on the forums. You could use vortexbox os the os/image, or just buy an appliance from them. vortexbox.org (But don't forget your backups ) Don't see why not, as it appears a powered USB Device. I may try it tonight ... The SHDC card is a nice feature, as if you have ~1% capacity spare (see wiki) you could use the same card full of Flacs in your Touch, or HiFiMAN HM-801 (edwood : ) )

Yep, runs an embedded server on the resource constrained device itself. Use a USB stick / SDHC card and you have a fanless / no moving parts system.

Good News Ric! The answer is yes. [ATTACH=CONFIG]3380[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]3381[/ATTACH] I had to use dBpoweramp to convert FLAC to ALAC. Confirmed conversion using foobar 2000 ALAC Decoder. Copied files onto am 8MB SDHC card that already had bunch of flac albums. Inserted SDHC card into slot in touch. Touch sensed card, started up local Squeezebox server, from Settings->advanced->squeezebox server watched Discovering Files ... Complete Scan New Files ... Complete Artwork Scan: ... Complete The tagged ALAC files showed up the the right places (by artist / album / year / new music ) And played ! ( through a pico slim / JH-13 in this case) Internet Radio - (Radio Paradise / SomaFM / TSF Jazz Paris) isn't too bad, either. Enjoy your bargains 30% off'ers Note: it will work as another network player, for an existing Squeezebox server, and can be used as a touch based controller for them as well!

Lazed by/in the pool, then out to meet up with some fellow Brits and associated natives for an easy hike in a local state park overlooking the bay, where we encountered several deer and some wild turkeys just to keep it interesting. Then having worked up an appetite, on to an Indian (restaurant) for Curry and some Bistromathics. We bemoaned the absence of decent (or any) Onion Bhaji's on this side of the pond, and then managed to be the last group to leave, just before they shut up shop for the night. And it wasn't even chucking out time. Which is entirely the wrong way round!

And He loves you, He really, really loves you! bow-chica-wow-wow

Congrat Al on the Ooh Shiney! Remember, if you get caught talking in your sleep while camping, it must have been Cl-Ayre they heard

Nah, what about the T-shirt! Flash T-Qualiser T-Shirt (TQ Raver) Edit: plenty of youtube videos show this in action ...

Just before this degenerates into an entrenched Subjectivists vs Objectivists "debate", may I say Me, I'm a fan of the scientific method. If subjectivism works for you, as an individual, that's great. But, where's the predictive capability?, and how else do we get a feedback loop that improves stuff over time?