strange one..

[Scott]

os x 10.4
ss 7.0

ok, this is a bit wierd. I have 4 squeezeboxes. The other day, the one in my son's room stopped working right. Specifically, it turns on, gets an ip address, displays the screensaver correctly, displays the songs, and even looks like sound should be coming out. However, there is no sound! When I sync this machine with one of the other boxes, it works fine. When I unsyc, the sound stops (but the display continues to mark time, as if it is working ok)

any thoughts from the smart folks out there?

thanks in advance,

scott

[SoundBoy]

Scott - I never used the sync options. SS7 put one of my SB3 in endless reboot loops while the other one was working fine.

There is something fishy about that!!

sorry... I hope the final SS7 version is working on all SBxs correctly.

Best

os x 10.4
ss 7.0

ok, this is a bit wierd. I have 4 squeezeboxes. The other day, the one in my son's room stopped working right. Specifically, it turns on, gets an ip address, displays the screensaver correctly, displays the songs, and even looks like sound should be coming out. However, there is no sound! When I sync this machine with one of the other boxes, it works fine. When I unsyc, the sound stops (but the display continues to mark time, as if it is working ok)

any thoughts from the smart folks out there?

thanks in advance,

scott

[funkstar]

SoundBoy, did you post a thread about your problems?

If you didn't then there is every chance your problem still exists. These things can happen to very small numbers of units. Helping the development team to diagnose the problem could save someone less technically proficient some trouble when they upgrade

[Mark Lanctot]

os x 10.4
ss 7.0

ok, this is a bit wierd. I have 4 squeezeboxes. The other day, the one in my son's room stopped working right. Specifically, it turns on, gets an ip address, displays the screensaver correctly, displays the songs, and even looks like sound should be coming out. However, there is no sound! When I sync this machine with one of the other boxes, it works fine. When I unsyc, the sound stops (but the display continues to mark time, as if it is working ok)

any thoughts from the smart folks out there?

thanks in advance,

scott

Try rewriting Xilinx, unplug power, press and hold 1 while replugging power.

[Scott]

what is Xilinx?

thanks

sb

[Zaragon]

From memory it is or is associated with the digital to analog conversion. Being software reprogrammable I believe is his suggesting that it is set back to its default code in case it was corrupted.

[Scott]

ok... i unplugged, then replugged back in while holding "1". Then the player worked... for about 20 minutes.... I guess the player is broken?

sb

[Mark Lanctot]

The Xilinx is a CLPD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPLD It's a chip which can be reprogrammed, which is what you do when you go through the "press and hold 1 on power up" procedure.

I believe it handles the codecs and some of the general audio operation (the digital to analog conversion is handled by the DAC though). In the rare event I get an audio glitch, this usually clears it up.

I think this is what is known as SlimDSP - the codecs are in software so new ones can (and have) been added and others can be changed.

This usually fixes it for me. Unfortunately in your case it does sound as if something is malfunctioning, you shouldn't have to redo it every 20 minutes.