cdsteinkuehler;151590 Wrote: > It appears that each player sports independent playlists (and some > formatting settings) in the slimserver web interface, but I'm having > problems with 'cross-coupling' of other settings. > Anything specific to a player (such as display, formatting, audio, playlist etc) is, well, specific to a player :) The server settings are things like library management, security, web interface settings, etc.
> > For my first test, I simply set one player to use a "Random Song List" > playlist (using all available music). This worked fine until I hooked > up a second (software) player on a different machine and set *IT* to > use a "Random Song List" as well, but this time restricted to only > christmas music. Once I added the second player, my first random > playlist started adding only christmas music, apparently 'inheriting' > the genre filter setting from the second player. > That sounds like a bug, it certainly shouldn't happen that way. What version of slimserver are you using? > > I also noticed the gross hack (multiple instances of slimserver with > iptables redirection) required to provide different music library > support to different players: Support for multiple libraries (or a single, fully partitioned library) has been a fairly frequent request, although nothing really exists yet. There are various plugins which attempt to solve similar problems (such as by allowing you to define your own browse criteria) which may help in the interim. > > Is somthing like multiple instances of slimserver required to keep them > from "cross-coupling"? I hope not, as my wife and I have very different > listening habits, and I don't really like the way the multiple instance > thing is setup (ie: what happens if I want to listen on my wife's > player?). > You mentioned one specific instance where the random playlist generator seemed to have a bug. What else are you concerned about? I have players in many rooms and each has control of it's own playlist. Display & formatting settings are also per player, as that tends to make the most sense (i.e. in a large room the font size is big so it can be read from a distance). I'm not really sure what you mean by "cross-coupling" and what your concerns are? -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29289 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
