Firebat Wrote: 
> I'm new to Slimeserver and couldn't find the answer to my question in
> the FAQs or forum.
> 
> When you perform an album search from a Squeezebox, is the Slimserver
> itself perform the search and returning the output to the Squeezebox or
> is the Squeezebox itself accessing the database and performing the
> search itself?  
> 
> Are all of the commands/menus that you select and use on the squeezebox
> local in the Squeezebox or is Slimserver sending the menu text, etc to
> the squeexebox for display (i.e, is the squeezebox a dumb client?)

Just about anything that isn't music decoding is done on the server. 
The Squeezebox is dumb...  or to be more polite, "slim".

(This does lead to neat tricks like the 'lazy search' plugin... it's a
feature that the client is slim since the server code is opensource and
had lots of plugins.)


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