SqueezeCenter for Windows Home Server

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Terry Walsh in Media

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Experience Level: Standard

This add-in provides a simple method for installing SqueezeCenter (used to control and manage Logitech Squeezebox digital media receivers) on your home server.

Developer: Logitech

More Info: Download | Support Forum

Release History

v7.4.2

This release fixes Squeezebox Radio bugs found by 7.4.1 users. It is required when operating the Radio with the optional battery.

  • Squeezebox Server
    • Improved alarm reliability.
    • Various scanner-related tag reading fixes.
    • Fixed audio glitches at the end of WAV/AIFF files.
    • Fixed gapless playback when playing PCM on Squeezebox 1.
  • Radio
    • Improved alarm reliability
    • Improved network connectivity with MySqueezebox.com. Improves alarm reliability when connected only to MySqueezebox.com
    • Maintains battery charge
  • Software Versions
    • Squeezebox Server: 30215
    • Radio: 8423
    • No change to software for Controller, Squeezebox 2 / 3, Transporter, Receiver and Boom

v7.4.1

  • pps:
    • Added Queen app.
  • Platform Support:
    • Binaries and tarballs are now available for the following platforms:
      • i386 FreeBSD 7.2
      • ARM EABI Linux
      • PowerPC Linux
  • Scanner bug fixes and improvements:
    • Improved speed of FLAC scanning.
    • Improved accuracy of FLAC seeking.
    • Re-added support for ID3v2 tags in FLAC files.
    • AIFF: Fixed error when reading ID3 chunks with a bad chunk size.
    • MP4: Fixed parsing of files with short TRKN tags.
    • #14241 – Fixed Win32 crash when seeking in FLAC files
    • #14462 – Fixed reading of WAV files with 18-byte fmt chunks
    • #14476 – Fixed crashes when files contain very large cover art
    • #14658 – Fixed reading of MP4 tags on certain platforms
    • #14705 – Properly read ID3v2 frames in a file with a corrupt frame
    • #14728 – Try to work around broken taggers that write UTF-16 text to ID3v2.3 tags without a BOM
    • #14788 – Fixed crash when reading certain WMA tags
  • Bug Fixes:
    • #10429 – Added pref for extracting iTunes artwork, off by default
    • #13264 – If sleeping at end of song, don’t start crossfading the next track
    • #13892 – Can’t store music folder with non-latin characters
    • #14068 – Installer should pause longer when shutting down SqueezeTray
    • #14230 – Pause, play, starts a new track. Intermittent
    • #14340 – missing strings on controller
    • #14444 – Cannot View music folder with Traditional / Simplified Chinese folder name
    • #14438 – Non-Default skins lack My Apps menu item
    • #14451 – New install of Squeezebox Server 7.4 on ReadyNAS NV+ creates 2 instances of SBS
    • #14453 – Home menu inconsistent: App Gallery precedes My Apps on SqueezePlay, but follows on ip3k
    • #14470 – Scan crashes on MusicIP (Windows) import when encountering non-latin path/file names
    • #14471 – Can’t open Control Panel if SBS is password protected
    • #14472 – Document CLI change from music_services to apps
    • #14485 – After 7.4.0, IR doesn’t work
    • #14476 – Scanner fails when files contain very large artwork
    • #14503 – Browse Music Folder broken
    • #14506 – Control panel does not show information on password protected server
    • #14519 – Debian installer doesn’t migrate settings from old squeezecenter
    • #14520 – ReadyNAS – starting with wrong locale information
    • #14521 – Save Playlist (on current playlist screen) causes reconnecting screen
    • #14573 – iTunes import crashes on DISCC for remote tracks
    • #14580 – ReadyNAS – Cannot playback AAC files
    • #14587 – Duplicate albums due to bad MuiscBrainz tags
    • #14588 – Scanner reports ‘File not found’ for non-ASCII characters
    • #14590 – ServiceManager should treat Windows 7, 2008 et al. like Vista
    • #14594 – No FF and REW in Napster tracks
    • #14599 – Control Panel Opens When Starting Squeezebox Server
    • #14597 – AAC to MP3 fails because of bug in convert.conf file
    • #14745 – Wrong Date on Squeezebox Classic when in standby
    • #14758 – iTunes imported music is not mixable in MusicIP
    • #14762 – Cyrillic encoding is broken in Browse Music Folder
    • #14783 – WAV -> FLAC on OSX fails: SOX error

v7.4

Bug Fixes:

  • Different behaviour with browsing shortcuts in Music Folder
  • MP4 -> FLAC conversion – big endian vs. little endian
  • Poor recovery from empty stream
  • PCM != WAV
    Add (restore) WAV seek capability
  • Most transcoding doesn’t work with non-ascii-characters in filename
  • Failure to resume song on connection recovery after short network disruption
  • Allow SqueezeCenter to downsample WAV using SoX
  • WAV convert to LAME (MP3) fails
  • Transcoding Framework only replaces variable once (need global replace)
  • SC reverts to last stream played if ShoutCast server reached max. # listeners
  • Now playing remote stream shows duration bar initially
  • Allow SqueezeCenter to downsample AIF using SoX

v7.3

  • Initial release

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6 Responses to “SqueezeCenter for Windows Home Server”

  1. Vishal Vishal

    06. May, 2009

    I changed from stand alone application to Add In and it broke the Windows Home Server console. It took me 3 days to figure it out to uninstall the Squeezebox server. I still havent figure out how to uninstall any Addin from remote computer, as Console crashed every single time.

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  2. javi

    01. Jul, 2009

    Try the new version 7.4 – the admin console crashing issue now seems fixed and it installed and started working without any problems

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  3. Rusty

    07. Sep, 2009

    If you already have the standalone application installed does this give any added benefits or functionality or is it just an easier method of installation?

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    • Urmaster

      06. Oct, 2009

      Yes the new control panel is now extended onto the connector settings window. This allows you to make changes to the server without having to Terminal Server in (just use the connector).

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  4. Carleton Wu

    26. Sep, 2009

    The newer 7.4 beta for WHS messes up the Squeezenetwork connection. It will only work with test.mysqueezebox.com and you won’t be able to use your Squeezenetwork settings or favorites. BEWARE! Anyone know where I can download a 7.3.x for WHS version?

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    • Urmaster

      06. Oct, 2009

      There was no official version for WHS at 7.3; you should be able to use the normal windows distro. If you’re a member of Wegotserved post a thread.

      Just a note to the Editor the addin is now called “Squeezebox Server for Windows home server”.

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