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ljeii on VBP not registering on mysqueezebox.com

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:10:33 +0000

So follow up. It looks like the update is the problem. I installed from iso on another system, and all the apps show up properly in the my apps section. But on the system i had yum updated, if the app wasnt in my apps before (which changed between version 7.0 to 7.5 at some point) it didnt get added.

So the point that i was trying to get to work which is VBP regsitering on the mysqueezebox.com site, is still not happening. But that is not so bad, as long as the app in on the appliance doesnt complain, which it isnt on the fresh install. But the upgrade just lost the pandora program link altogether.

Thanks.

vdeknock on VBP not registering on mysqueezebox.com

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:55:00 +0000

For sirius can you not install the plugins and from that menu enter your username and password for access.

Look in the slimserver forums under 3rd party applications - there are a couple of plugins that people discuss for working with the SBS server.

ljeii on VBP not registering on mysqueezebox.com

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:38:05 +0000

I have gone through the forums and supplemented with google searches, and have tried all the suggestions from that seemed to apply to my situation.

I deleted the mac address and hit submit.

I've updated through yum, and through the GUI (just in case)

I uninstalled rpm -e vbp, sbs, and squeezeslave then reinstalled just sbs and vbp.

The machine is working fine headless and internet radio is fine, but i really want my sirius and pandora, so i really need myapps to work.

Unless there is a more manual way of accessing pandora and sirius without having to have the player registered at mysqueezebox.com.

This is the real problem, the vbp wont show up on mysqueezebox.com.

any suggestions? let me know what file contents you would need to see, i'll be happy to get them to you.

Thanks, Larry

chabelo on VB Player Stopped working

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:49:04 +0000

I've been using VB Player successfully for about a month with a Turtle Beach USB device. It's recently stopped working and I can't figure out why. I tried removing and reinstalling all VB Player devices from the control screen. I'm seeing the following in my MPD.log

Aug 28 20:02 : decoder_thread: curl failed: couldn't connect to host

ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM

Aug 28 20:03 : output: Failed to open "Family Room" [alsa]: Failed to open ALSA device "": No such file or directory

Aug 28 20:03 : player_thread: problems opening audio device while playing "http://localhost:9000/stream.mp3?player=00:04:20:6c:ef:ae"

I've tried reinstalling VB Player and MPD to no avail. I suspect that some lock file didn't get cleaned up or some file got corrupted in a power-down (it's summer -we get those in SoCal).

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have a Mondo backup but I really don't want to resort to that. My music collection is 900+ GB. A rebuild would be a two-day affair. Everything else seems to be working fine.

Thanks

steveh on How to play music on USB port

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:00:51 +0000

No idea but yes you can set up 3 players with 0,0 analogue out; 0,1 spdif out ; 0,3 hdmi out

kevin82 on How to play music on USB port

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:27:51 +0000

Thanks! with your MB you can have 3 VP players if i see correct right?

steveh on How to play music on USB port

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:53:18 +0000

Not sure of the MB but it's an Asrock ION 330 pro nettop.

kevin82 on How to play music on USB port

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:11:25 +0000

off topic: steve what motherboard are you using?

kevin82 on VB player crossfade option

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:46:56 +0000

Is there a way to add this? This is a feature i really like of my squeezebox duet receiver

Andrew on VB player crossfade option

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:44:12 +0000

I don't think crossfade works on VortexBox player.

kevin82 on VB player crossfade option

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:21:42 +0000

For my squeezebox i have a crossfade option for the VB internal player not, it here something i am overlooking?

cheers

Christian Look on some flac folders/files are not playable through squeezebox touch

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:53:38 +0000

Hi, had problems previous with some CD rips into flac-format. They sounded distorted in the high-spectrum. So I ripped the CDs as WAV-files with I-tunes and converted them to flacs with Media-coder. Play-back on the PC with any program for flacs (winamp, foobar, etc. all works totally fine, no distortion). When I load these flacs onto the vortexbox into the files/music/flac..folder, the Squeezebox touch will find the folder and song-files, but will not play the files. I get this error: Problem: Song cannot be opened for:

Please, can anybody help, I am at the end of my own solution paths. Each attempt to rip with Vortexbox appliance will only end in distorted files. But the ripping as WAV and then the conversion to flac with PC that are playable, show that the CDs are fine (earlier opinions suggested that the CDs would be faulty, but that is clearly not the case).

Thanks for your tipps and hints, they are greatly appreciated.

Cheers from Germany

Christian

nlcrookm on How to play music on USB port

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:42:57 +0000

I have been looking around the forum and noticed that I do not have vortexbox-player directory nor the vortexbox player in SBS.

Could that explain some of the problems?

steveh on How to play music on USB port

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:09:31 +0000

It's not showing the DAC audio ports,below is the CA DACmagic port list. I can also get spdif out by running alsamixer and tabbing along to activate the spdif port.

ALSA device list

0 [NVidia         ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
                      HDA NVidia at 0xfae78000 irq 23
1 [default        ]: USB-Audio - C-Media USB Headphone Set
                      C-Media USB Headphone Set   at usb-0000:00:04.0-6, full speed

List of audio device ports

  2:        : timer
  3:        : sequencer
  4: [ 0- 3]: digital audio playback
  5: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
  6: [ 0- 1]: digital audio playback
  7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  8: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  9: [ 0- 3]: hardware dependent
10: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
11: [ 0]   : control
12: [ 1- 0]: digital audio playback
13: [ 1]   : control

nlcrookm on How to play music on USB port

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:29:24 +0000

I am trying out a Hegel HD 10 DAC and have a few problems with getting music from the USB port.

My configeration looks as follows:

ALSA device list

0 [Intel          ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                      HDA Intel at 0xfea38000 irq 16
1 [default        ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio DAC
                      Burr-Brown from TI               USB Audio DAC    at usb-0000:00:1d.3-1, full s

List of audio device ports

  2:        : timer
  3:        : sequencer
  6: [ 0- 2]: digital audio capture
  7: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
  8: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
  9: [ 0- 0]: hardware dependent
10: [ 0]   : control

Is the device configuration correct?

How do I get music to the USB output?

In the past I managed to play music on the built-in sound card through Subsonic and choosing the external player, but with the USB port is does not work.

I also tried a multitude of ALSA configurations, but none of them worked apparently either.

Some help here would be much appreciated.

Regards, Michael

Name	MAC address	Audio Device	Soft Vol.