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13Feb/126

Playing Last.FM radio on Squeezebox outside UK, US and Germany

Posted by Pål Eie

Due to usage rights Last.FM only supports music streaming on Squeezebox in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. For the rest of us this is a real hassle!

As a paying customer I never settled with this idea, and have struggled to find a way around these limitations, and with some extra testing I finally discovered how I can trick this :)

10Jan/120

Troubleshooting Squeezebox network connections

Posted by Pål Eie

squeezebox duet networking problemsTroubleshooting network connection errors on your Squeezebox is hard! Once the Squeezebox Duet is fully configured it is important to remember that you actually have two devices connected to your network: The Squeezebox player/receiver and the Squeezebox Duet controller!

If you eg. change network provider, router etc. you can easily set up your controller again, but you will have a very hard time reconfiguring or connecting to your Squeezebox receiver SBR as it is still configured for you old network!

In many troubleshooting situations the easiest and fastest solution is to do a full facotry reset and reconfiguration (as the full setup only takes about 1-2 minutes). Follow the steps provided here!

1Jan/101

SqueezeBox Server won’t scrobble to LastFm

Posted by Pål Eie

For the second time this week, I saw that my Squeezebox Server won't scrobble my played (and loved) tracks to last.fm! I started investigating, and in the server log of my Squeezebox server, I found the following errors: