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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
grunt #210581 06/04/08 11:56 AM
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Tom,

Regarding your Squeezebox not doing play lists..
Because the whole Squeeze thing is open source, there are tons of free add ons to do pretty much whatever you need to do with playlists. "Moose" is a popular one. I personally didn't find the interface appealing but it did do everything I needed, including allowing me to build long or short play lists or create ones by mixes of genres and still play random. I like random for some reason. Anarchy rulez!! \:D
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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
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Thanks, Murph. I'm going to give it another go sometime. But not today. It would be cool if the new version of the server software solved my "zones out of synch" problem. I'll look into Moose. I appreciate the tip.

Dean, that's very valuable information. Thank you for pulling it together.


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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
grunt #210648 06/04/08 04:51 PM
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I gotta stop trying things while sleep deprived.

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Fred, I think the way the cables work is a stereo mini plug to two RCA plugs.


Well, that would make sense. You know, a simple image of a y connector next to the plug would be such a helpful clue...

I'm going to be even more embarassed if I go back to the Gigabyte manual and it tells me to use a minijack to 2 RCA connector...

Now, let me just verify one other thing. There are 3 different connectors I could have:

RCA - standard 1/4" easy to ID, one channel
Mini Jack: 3/32 (not that common according to Ratshack), two channel
Headphone: 1/8", two channel

I believe the connectors on the mobo are 1/8" as that is what fits.

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I’m not sure how things would work if you only connected a jack

I think I quite accurately described how it works in my last post. :rolleyes:

On a somewhat related note, I wonder if the HDMI on this board is 3.1?


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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
fredk #210652 06/04/08 04:55 PM
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HDMI 3.1 would be a problem but 1.3 would work nicely;\)


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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
jakewash #210711 06/04/08 11:57 PM
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 Originally Posted By: fredk

I'm going to be even more embarassed if I go back to the Gigabyte manual and it tells me to use a minijack to 2 RCA connector...


Yes you want 3.5mm or 1/8inch (as you called it, I thought Canada went metric?) mini jack to dual RCA. BTW I’ve yet to meet a motherboard manual that bothers to tell you this.

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HDMI 3.1 would be a problem but 1.3 would work nicely


What’s this HDMI “1.3a” crap I’m seeing. I thought the silliness was supposed to stop with vanilla 1.3


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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
grunt #210904 06/07/08 02:06 AM
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Huston, we have liftoff... well, ignition anyway.

After 3 nights of 10 hour sleeps I am now merely exausted instead of comatose. I read over the sparse reciever manual again and it actually mostly made sense.

I picked up one headphone/rca stereo converter and tagged it as sub/center out, left the other outputs with my wonky wiring and fired up LOTR. Wadayaknow, sound out of the center and the sub all at once with the receiver doing passthrough.

Off to bed again. Lucky me I'm working yet another Saturday.


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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
fredk #211000 06/08/08 11:53 PM
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Cabling is fixed, we finally have liftoff.

I found the best source for cabling yet at my local surplus store when I went there to pick up some acrylic for my M2 stand. I was looking for a coax audio out to plug in to the mobo (which they didn't have).

Now I need to get an spl meter to ballance things out.


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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
fredk #211032 06/09/08 03:40 AM
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Good to hear you got things going.

 Originally Posted By: fredk

Now I need to get an spl meter to ballance things out.


I got mine here:

http://www.svsound.com/products-parts.cfm


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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
fredk #211654 06/15/08 06:03 PM
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Some progress at last!

Add a little heat, a bend here and there and voila...


On the TV

I actually made a little 'hook' at the front so that the stand locks in place on the TV. I also put some double sided sticky tape in a couple of places to hold it down.

And the finished result.

Once my son is finished playing with the new video game he 'bought me' for fathers day, I'll fire it up and see how it sounds.

The M2s stacked in front didn't actually sound that bad. For the most part, voices were centered on screen, but for 5 channel music, the sound stage seemed lowered.


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Re: Fred's Setup Thread
grunt #211674 06/16/08 05:35 AM
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 Originally Posted By: grunt


What’s this HDMI “1.3a” crap I’m seeing. I thought the silliness was supposed to stop with vanilla 1.3




Actually 1.3b is the newest but according to the powers that know the difference is supposed to be negligent to the end user

http://www.hdmi.org/learningcenter/faq.aspx#112

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