> I understood it was the only way to get my art covers to be displayed on > my SqueezePlayers. Have I understood this right?No, it is not the *only* way: > as you yourself said, there are indeed two ways to play to a Squeezeplayer:
1) Library (by Whitebear) => Player (by Whitebear) 2) Library JRMC (*) => Player (by Whitebear) (*) or another control point like Windows Media Player, Foobar, etc. In case 1) SBS/LMS is sourcing the all music track data and all its meta data and cover art images. The control point just informs Whitebear about this, and Whitebear just informs SBS/LMS to refer back to back to its own data. The control point only sends control commands, via Whitebear, to play this or that track, but no actual data (be it meta data, music stream or cover art), needs to be transferred because that data is already inside SBS/LMS. Therefore everything works smoother. In case 2) the control point is sourcing the track data, which it then gives to Whitebear, which Whitebear then passes on to SBS/LMS. The track meta data and cover art come from the control point; and the control point is also actually providing the music data stream too. Therefore there is far more "stuff" being passed between control point, Whitebear and SBS/LMS, so the data integration is more complex, and it risks to run less smoothly. Also if Logitech messes with things in the server (as they just did in v7.7.x), it risks that I also have to change things in Whitebear to match (as I just did in this new build). Notwithstanding the above, case 2) works fine in the test version that )p( is now kindly testing. It displays all track meta data (albeit on one line), the cover art, and obviously it plays the track itself. (In some cases, the control point might not support the seek function on all formats; but that regrettably is not the fault of Whitebear). )p(;682505 Wrote: > Using jrmc's library will give you much more flexiblity in building your > own view schemes.I don't really know enough about JRMC to judge whether )p( > is right on this. But clearly he prefers case 2). But then again, I have to say that I prefer case 1). So finally it is just a matter of choice... -- AndrewFG Regards, AndrewFG Try out Whitebear. The middleware that joins the two worlds of: 1. UPnP/DLNA media clients and media players, and, 2. Squeezebox Server and Squeeze Players Download it for free here: http://www.whitebear.ch/mediaserver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndrewFG's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15838 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90842 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
