Squeezer 1.5.1 App on Android 8

[Richard]

Just a quick post for anyone using version 1.5.1 of Squeezer App for control of SB Touch, Boom, etc, to say it works perfectly (for me anyway) on Android 8

Since losing use of the original Logitec app with a previous update of Android OS I've tried a few apps and changing OS has been a concern but this is the best yet (home wi-fi network using remote PC server with phone control of SB Touch and Boom all via wireless). It's very stable, fast, fluid, doesn't drop or hang, connects immediately - ooer probably jinxed it now many thanks to the authours!

[pre65]

It has been said that the SB Touch is old hat these days with all the Raspberry Pi and DAC variations, but I still like my Touch.

I now use a Beresford Caimen SEG DAC.

[Richard]

Morning Philip and happy new year. Yes, I'm still very pleased with the sound. My SBT is running Triode's Enhanced Digital Output app which works great and allows USB asynchronous connection to a Mk1 Arcam irdac. The pleasant surprise now is finding the Squeezer app working so well with latest Android

[bikerhifinut]

I'm about to try this app Richard for my SB touch. New Motorola Play 5e Android phone.
I'm struggling with getting to grips with the whole network audio , my technophobic geriatric brain doesn't get computer stuff at all.
But we would like to get some sort of integrated networked entertainment.
So how do you get media files off a Computer/hard drive and into the squeezebox and thus to DAC and Stereo? It used to work via iTunes but I believe that its now discontinued or about to be?
I'm using the SB as the interface to the DAC as I don't want to have a computer cluttering up the equipment shelf. Mostly I still listen to LPs or CD so the SB etc is for more casual use and also for streaming internet radio, and that seems to have gone worse since the BBC "improved" their streaming.

Andy.

[bikerhifinut]

Its a waste of time, I can't even work out how to get the blessed thing to talk to my phone or do anything more than stream crappy MP3 radio at low bitrates. This really has to be one of the most useless items of kit I have ever had the misfortune to encounter. I used it in the past with my old Phone and it would play music off a networked PC HDD or a USB connected offboard HDD, I had to use iTunes though to get files off the home PC. I'm going round in circles and its heading for the bin if I can't get it to work without a bloody rigmarole of setups.
Bloody hell this is progress? I pop a CD in the player and I get music without any pain...………… If it wasn't for the fact that theres no FM signal worth using here even with a bloody great big Ron Smith aerial I'd have given up ages ago, at least I can get radio down the freeview but that entails switching the telly on.

[Richard]

Evening Andy. What's a waste of time, the Squeezer app or the Squeezebox?

The app is easy to load; search Squeezer from Play Store, it's the orange square icon with white android in it.

The app controls Squeezebox via wifi and will list the music files and radio links available.

You also need a PC or server to hold the music files and connect to the web if you want to stream from outside, ie radio stations or music services.

On this PC/server you load LMS - Logitech Media Server, which is a free server programme. In library you point LMS to your music files held on the PC hard drive.

So you now have,

1) A PC/server holding your FLAC/MP3 music files and which can connect to the outside world for radio,

2) LMS server software on the PC/server which knows where your music files are,

3) Squeezer app on your phone to view and select the music,

4) Squeezebox Touch connected (via DAC if reqd) to your hifi.

All talks to each other via wifi.


Forget any Logitech website or connections as (I think) they don't stream or do radio anymore. You are looking to set up local FLAC music replay and radio stations via their web URLs.


It sounds complicated but it's just a case of familiarity and will take a bit of getting used to. Start with 5 CDs. Rip them to FLAC and file them in your music folder on the PC. Open LMS and point them to the CDs in the library. Open squeezer on the phone, select and play.

Take each step separately and ask anyone here specific questions