Refurb'ed Squeezbox Touch on eBay?

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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited June 2012
    Lasareath wrote: »
    Does anybody know if the L & R RCA outputs of the Squeeze Box are variable?, Can I just hook up the Squeeze Box to an Amp and and bypass using a Pre-Amp?

    No you can't just hook it up w/o a pre-amp. Musical quality suffers if the vol control is less than full. It uses an inexpensive digital vol control. Leave it at full at all times and adjust the volume from your pre-amp for best results.

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    teekay0007 wrote: »
    Thanks, audiocr381ve, for your helpful input.

    I guess what I'm really interested in here is a way to get super-easy access to all the music on all of my CDs without having to dig through racks, shelves, closets, drawers, cars, etc. :eek: And, even more importantly, it needs to sound as good as it does from the original CDs. I've been less-than-thrilled by the sound of some other streaming audio (ie. Pandora) and the supposed "CD-quality sound" of the Direct TV audio channels sounds pretty "thin" when played through my home stereo.

    I want to load the CDs in the most lossless (dense) format no matter what the storage requirements are since once this ripping process is done, I'd be very tempted to get rid of all, or at least a great deal of my CD collection. Also, I'd like the stored format to be the best available for later upgrades to the now-existing Squeezebox playback capabilities. I suppose it might also then be a good idea to maybe get an extra external hard drive to store a backup copy of all the ripped CDs. Then, I'd be much less likely to go completely mad when my laptop got stolen, spilled on, or otherwise damaged beyond repair. :twisted:

    Anybody know approx. how many CDs I could store in a lossless (FLAC, Apple Lossless) format on about 600 GB of free hard drive space I have? Are there any rules of thumb to make that conversion (ie. an hour of music per 50 - 60 MB) for estimating how much storage would be needed?

    I have 1781 flac albums on 550GB
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2012
    teekay0007 wrote: »
    Anybody know approx. how many CDs I could store in a lossless (FLAC, Apple Lossless) format on about 600 GB of free hard drive space I have? Are there any rules of thumb to make that conversion (ie. an hour of music per 50 - 60 MB) for estimating how much storage would be needed?

    I have 380 CD's in flac, it takes up 121 GB on my external hard drive. Rough approximation is about 35MB per song, about 300-350MB per album. (16bit/44kHz). High rez (24/96) is significantly higher.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2012
    heiney9 wrote: »
    No you can't just hook it up w/o a pre-amp. Musical quality suffers if the vol control is less than full. It uses an inexpensive digital vol control. Leave it at full at all times and adjust the volume from your pre-amp for best results.

    H9

    Agree. While it can be done, quality suffers. Leave the volume at maximum and run line level to a preamp or DAC. It's a digital volume control, not analog.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • audiocr381ve
    audiocr381ve Posts: 2,588
    edited June 2012
    Mine came in several hours ago and it's up and running already. What a great piece of gear. Super easy to configure. Now I'm going to have to go through that multiple page thread about the SBT tips and tricks :D
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2012
    Just be careful with some of those so-called "tweaks." Enjoy, your wireless jukebox has arrived!
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited June 2012
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Just be careful with some of those so-called "tweaks." Enjoy, your wireless jukebox has arrived!

    +1000, use it as is before monkeying around with it. Most of those tweaks can create other issues and I have found the few I have tried just aren't worth the headaches involved.

    YMMV

    H9
    "Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2012
    I have found no need to mess with the oem config, FWIW.
    Source: Bluesound Node 2i - Preamp/DAC: Benchmark DAC2 DX - Amp: Parasound Halo A21 - Speakers: MartinLogan Motion 60XTi - Shop Rig: Yamaha A-S501 Integrated - Shop Spkrs: Elac Debut 2.0 B5.2
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    I just got mine today. I think I am in love!!
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    Well it has having a hard time scanning all my files. I have ALOT!
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    i am no longer in love. Things not working. On hold for 20 min now w/tech support

    On hold for 32 minutes. They finally answer and then directly hang up on me.

    Thanks
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  • audiocr381ve
    audiocr381ve Posts: 2,588
    edited June 2012
    rromeo923 wrote: »
    i am no longer in love. Things not working. On hold for 20 min now w/tech support

    On hold for 32 minutes. They finally answer and then directly hang up on me.

    Thanks

    Care to explain the problem? Maybe we can help... I just got setting mine up and it was a breeze.
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    I cant seem to access "My Music"
    On the squeezebox itself it tells me I have to d/l software. However that has been done. There is no "My Music" on the menu on mysqueezebox remote.
    Not sure what to do.

    I am starting over. Uninstalled. Reinstalled. Rescanning
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    Ok it is now seeing my music. But now the remote on the computer is not seeing the squeezebox device. Gonna go to bed and deal w/it tomorrow.
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    Well it took a bit of work to get Squeezebox to see all my files. I had to scan them in incrementally. Everything at once was too much and it kept on getting stuck during the scan.
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited June 2012
    How large is your music folder? Mine is 373GB's at the current time. It will take some time for the initial scan. But once that's done, when you select "Status" tab upon opening LMS, at the bottom, change the option to "Look for new and changed media files". Hit rescan and Ok at the bottom. Do this every time you add music to your main library so the Squeezebox will see it. Scans will also take anywhere from a few seconds to a minute depending on how much music was added.
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    I have almost 2TB's of music. Flac albums, Flac Live shows, Mp3 etc.

    Question. Can you use this device to stream something like Bonnaroo You tube streaming? http://www.youtube.com/bonnaroo
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  • Syndil
    Syndil Posts: 1,582
    edited June 2012
    Not directly from that link, no. But if they have an internet radio URL you can add that to your Squeezebox. I wasn't able to find one in my brief Google search. Looks like YouTube is sponsoring the feed, so of course they probably want you to use YouTube to watch/listen.

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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    This squeezebox is great except it seems to have problems w/my music. I added a few albums to my hard drive and the rescan doesnt seem to be able to find them. I wish there was a way I could just drop them into a folder and be done. I have had nothing but issues w/Squeezebox scanning my hard drive. Any suggestions??
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  • Drenis
    Drenis Posts: 2,871
    edited June 2012
    The files may be incorrectly tagged. Try doing a search on the Squeezebox to find your music. Ideally, once you place your music files in the one folder (or multiple folders if you choose) that houses your music and you perform a scan for "new files", once complete, your files should register.

    Try looking under "New Music" on the squeezebox. This usually shows your most recently uploaded music albums.
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  • transmaster
    transmaster Posts: 428
    edited June 2012
    You do not need a separate DAC your Onkyo TX-SR805 AVR will do the job. Make sure you have updated it with the latest firmware. I have a TX-NR709 with the it's DLNA, and a DLNA client such as Mezzmo, it will stream video, audio, you can view photos, the whole thing. With all of the web based music services built into it I have no desire to even hook up the antennas for local broadcast radio.
    If you don't already know about it here is the Onkyo support forum; http://onkyoproductsupport.forumotion.com/
    Radio Station W7ITC
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited June 2012
    Thanks Drenis. I will try that. I am pretty sure they are tagged correctly thoug.

    Transmaster- What the hell are you talking about??
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