cdsteinkuehler;151590 Wrote: > I like the idea of the squeezebox (especially the flac/ogg support!), > and I'm currently testing the slimserver software with multiple > software players to see how well it might work for me. > > The first issue I've run into is support for independent settings for > each player. 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. > > 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. Sounds like a shortcoming of the Random Mix plugin. When you press 'Play', it saves the selected genre list. This affects any new songs added to any random mix playlist, no matter the player. I wonder if anyone ever thought of that.
> I also noticed the gross hack (multiple instances of slimserver with > iptables redirection) required to provide different music library > support to different players: > http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?RunningMultipleSlimServers You're right, it's a gross hack of the ugliest kind. Unfortunately, it's all there is right now. > 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'd go into the player's setup and connect that player to the other server. Takes a bit of time and effort - certainly much more than a menu item to change libraries would. > If it matters, I'm planning on setting up some of the dynamic > auto-playlist generation plugins (ie: SQLPlayList & MusicMagic), which > may help (or worsen) the player cross-coupling issues. > > Is anyone using multiple squeezeboxes with multiple users from the same > slimserver? If so, how well does it work, and how different are your > listening tastes? > > Any advice, pointers, URL's, etc. appreciated. Thanks! Running multiple SlimServers takes some effort, so you really have to want it badly. To do this on Windows you really need to know what you're doing. Setting up multiple IP addresses on the computer, then installing your own MySQL server instead of SlimServer's. Then configuring the multiple instances of SlimServer to use different databases, IP addresses, preference files, cache folders. If you want make each instance run as a Windows service, even more hoops to jump through, and a number of SlimServer bugs that will trip you up along the way. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29289 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
