On Oct 7, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Phil Meyer wrote: >> Yes, Live365 is now a SN-based service; it is used to provide the >> menus of stations and handle the now playing information. SN >> maintains a database of current Live365 stations so your SlimServer >> does not have to talk directly to Live365 and can get the list of >> stations much faster. >> > I don't understand what benefit there can be for holding a list of > the statons in SN, other than if I wanted to connect to SN if I > didn't have a local server running. Couldn't the local > SqueezeCenter hold that cache?
It is far easier to develop plugins that use an SN web service as the backend. If SN is down it will be unavailable but this goes for a lot of things such as RadioIO, Pandora, Rhapsody, MP3tunes, etc. We don't anticipate any downtime, and we are rolling out redundant datacenters to make it even more reliable. > > I'm wondering if performance would be slower for non-US based > streaming. Why? They used to have to use a (slow) Live365 web service in the US. Also, SN will soon be served from Germany as well as East and West coast US. > > Will SN always be a free service? Will SN always be able to keep > up with demand? Of course. _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
