Quoting dSw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am currently trying MusicMagic (about 1 day's worth of validation left to go!) and I was curious about the following option in SlimServer Server settings: "SlimServer can use your MusicMagic program as source for title and genre information. Additionally you can generate instant mixes on genre, artist and song level. Check the box below to import your MusicMagic Library information." Does this mean that if you select that option SlimServer will no longer build and maintain its own tag database?
Slimserver imports the data from musicmagic and merges it with existing data. If you have a music folder/playlist folder, then you have both sets of data combined. You can operate without a music folder and rely on the data from musicmagic alone, if you wish. Either way, slimserver is still creating its own database.
The mixing functions use the musicmagic http API described on the predixis developers pages. This allows slimserver to request mixes based on the parameters you set in the server settings, or on the fly via the remote. Slimserver sends a query string, mmm replies with a 'playlist'.
Musicmagic also uses the slimserver api to send playback commands directly to slimserver if you prefer musicmagic as the front end for your squeezeboxen. Right click on the play button in musicmagic and it should pop up a conext menu of all the players connected to slimserver. This requires musicmagic that musicmagic starts up after slimserver in order to detect the players, but you can also run musicmagic with the --slim command-line option to force the slimserver connection, I believe.
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