obstreperousness Wrote: 
> Does that mean, then, I can fire an audio stream at the correct TCP port
> on the SB and expect it to turn it into sound, bypassing SlimServer and
> all its advanced features? Would you have to tell the SB anything else,
> like what format to expect? There's got to be more to it than that...

No, I should have qualified my response.

The stream is sent using the SlimProto TCP Protocol.  See here:

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimProtoTCPProtocol

SlimServer generates the SlimProto packets and the SB has an
interpreter to decode them.  If you had a program that could generate
SlimProto packets, then you could replace SlimServer.  I'm currently
unaware of a program that replaces SlimServer entirely.  The alternate
servers here still use the SlimServer CLI to generate packets:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginRemoteControls

There's only one SlimProto player listed here:

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginPlayers

and that's SoftSqueeze, although there's a simple command-line version
called squeezeslave available at the SoftSqueeze SourceForge site in
the Files section.  The other players listed in the wiki are for the
older SLIMP3 Client protocol.

BTW you can try out both SlimServer and SoftSqueeze right now as they
are both free.  In fact, it's a good idea to install SlimServer before
you get a Squeezebox so you can get a feel for it.


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