Logitech this week pushed out a major update to their Squeezebox Server software, which controls the Squeezebox range of digital audio receivers. An add-in for Windows Home Server v1 is available, while Windows Home Server 2011 owners can install and run the standard Windows application via a Remote Desktop Connection.
New in this release are a swathe of feature updates and bug fixes:
v7.6 (25th July 2011)
Apps
You’ll find many changes with Apps in this release
- Orange Liveradio
The Orange Liveradio experience is now available for all Squeezebox players. It’s your guide to over 11,000 radio stations and 5,000 podcasts from your country and around the world. It’s free too! To add the Orange Liveradio app, go to App Gallery->Podcast Services. - TuneIn Radio
The free RadioTime app has their new name — TuneIn. Otherwise, it’s still the same great app that gives you access to over 50,000 of your local and worldwide radio stations. Find and listen to unlimited music, sports, and talk radio. - Third Party Apps for Radio and Touch
Starting with this release, Logitech offers Third Party Apps for your Radio and Touch. These are created by independent app developers. Unlike previous Squeezebox plug-ins, most of these Third Party Apps do not require Squeezebox Server. Just go to App Gallery->Third Party Apps from the home menu.Two of the apps available with this release include:
- BBC Radio: Listen Now and Listen Again to national, regional and local BBC stations from where ever you are in the world.
- Font Replacer: Add Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters to your Squeezebox. Follow this link to find out more about the available third party apps. All third-party apps are not approved or tested by Logitech. Contact the app developer for support.
- Players More Reliable and Easier to Use
We’ve listened to feedback from customers and improved our Radio and Touch players and Squeezebox Controller:
- Alarms on Radio and Touch tweaked to make them easier to use when you’re barely awake
- Better networking
- Improved network connectivity
- Simplified network connectivity indicators
- More troubleshooting tools to help repair networking issues
- New simplified way to customize your home menu. More details are here.
- Audiophile Changes for Radio and Touch. Some changes in this release are for our audiophile users:
- New support for higher-fidelity audio formats
- 24-bit ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
- Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless
- WMA Professional (Windows Media Audio 10)
- When connecting an external DAC, the volume output of Touch can be set to be always at maximum. Go to Settings->Audio Settings and choose Fixed Volume
- More Reliable and Versatile Squeezebox Server. We’ve added some of the most requested features and bug fixes to Squeezebox Server:
- 100% new software to support accurate cataloging, sorting, searching and display of music libraries with alphabets and characters from around the world
- More reliable scanning of your computer when cataloging your music library
- Any Two Squeezeboxes Can Be a Stereo Pair. If you have two Squeezeboxes, you can designate them a stereo pair — one is the left speaker and the other is the right speaker. Ideal if you have two Radios, you can actually do this with any two Squeezeboxes. Sorry, Squeezebox Server required for this new feature. More information on configuring Squeezebox Server for some of these new features here.
Download: Squeezebox Server 7.6
