DrNic Wrote: > It sounds like you are only using the software, and don't have a > hardware squeezebox, otherwise you wouldn't be so fussed about using > iTunes to "listen" to your stream. No, I do have a hardware Squeezebox. The reason I'd like to use iTunes is so I can listen to my music when I'm at school. I don't have an iPod and I can't fit my entire collection on my laptop drive, so it'd be nice if I could listen to my collection (which is on a 250GB drive at home) even when I'm not at home.
I guess I should have made that idea more explicit in my original post. I keep a shadow library in AAC format so my wife can update her iPod, hence why I asked whether SlimServer could simply stream those AAC files rather than transcoding them to MP3. DrNic Wrote: > Another thought though, can't iTunes share its music library across the > network? Yes, but only on a local network because iTunes Sharing uses Bonjour (nee Rendezvous). If I'm not at home then this wouldn't work, unless someone knows of a way to do iTunes sharing across the internet. There is software out there that allows two widely-separated LANs to behave as part of the same LAN, but it is not a transparent solution. DrNic Wrote: > If using a real Squeezebox the AAC files can be made to stream > uncompressed (WAV) or into FLAC so you don't take the double hit of > transcoding to another lossy format. Of course. My main library is in Apple Lossless so it's transcoded to FLAC for use with the hardware Squeezebox. But when I'm away from home and want to stream to my laptop, I was hoping to stream my shadow AAC library rather than transcoding the ALAC to mp3. -- cepheid ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cepheid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3845 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23929 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
