No, is the short answer, as others have posted already, but there's another app that's better.
As others have just said, Squeezebox does not control iTunes. In fact, it doesn't control anything (unless you use the Squeezebox's remote control - see below). It is just the box that plays your digital music, with a converter (quite a good one although you can plug in a different/better one if you're not happy with it) to translate it into the analogue form needed by your amps and loudspeakers. You control the box with software (used to be Slimserver, then Squeezecenter, lost count of what it's called now) running on your computer. The software sets up your internet browser so you an use it and the computer to act as the remote control, for the Squeezebox (es), and it can act as that control wired, wirelessly, or as a hybrid, depending on how you set up both the computer and the Squeezebox. The browser based software is quite independent of iTunes. It makes its own Squeezecenter library (which is really just a catalogue, as is the iTunes library) quite independently of iTunes, although it may (and usually will) refer to the same music files as the iTunes library. They are different entities. However, Squeezecenter, if you tell it to, can use the iTunes library to set up its own. You just tick a box which instructs it to pinch the information from iTunes for its own purposes. The resulting iTunes integration works very well in my experience. You can control the Squeezecenter software either directly using mouse/ keyboard (like iTunes, but not iTunes) or the remote control for the Squeezebox which tells the Squeezebox what to tell the Squeezecenter that it should tell the Squeezebox what to do. But as all the other posters in your thread are advising, the really easy way of controlling the software is by using an iPod touch or iPhone running the application iPeng. This has an excellent GUI, infinitely better than the server's native one, and also has the advantage that it sends signals over your Airport (or other wireless network) directly to whatever wireless-equipped computer on which you have loaded the software. And that means that, once again, the Squeezebox is purely passive, receiving rather than relaying instructions. And if I've succeeded in making something that works very simply in practice into an explanation that's clear as mud, my sincere apologies! Cunobelinus. On 6 Oct 2009, at 17:23, jrgrott wrote: > > Hi, > I am thinking of getting a Squeezebox Touch. Right now I use iTunes > w/ > an Airport Express and use my iPhone REMOTE app to control iTunes and > the volume. If I do get a Squeezebox Touch, and use that for > streaming > my music to my stereo, can I still use my iPhone REMOTE app at all, > most > importantly to control the volume? I do not quite understand how the > Squeezebox contols iTunes, so I don't know if I used my iPhone app to > control iTunes would do anything. Any comments would be > appreciated. I > know there are some other iPhone apps for Squeezebox. The big > advantage > to using the iPhone REMOTE app is it is wireless, I think the > Squezebox > Touch remote is line-of-sight. > > > -- > jrgrott > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > jrgrott's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33329 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69265 > > _______________________________________________ > discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
