4mula1;160103 Wrote: > There are some ideas here, which is good, I'm glad to see soem interest. > But maybe I need to clarify some things to make what I am really > looking for more clear.
Ok, maybe it needs to be explicitly stated: The capability that you're looking for does not exist in SlimServer. > Like I said before, this is for my parents. My parents aren't computer > savvy, therefore I am the family IT manager. I want a minimum of > things that can go wrong but make it super easy to use. Connecting SlimServer to a library located on a remote network is a _long_ way from "a minimum of things that can go wrong". > I would like to be able to initiate the remote connection from the SB3 > and also be able to browse the remote library as if it were a local > library. Again, this doesn't exist in the long list of SlimServer capabilities. The only thing I can think of (and I have no idea if it would work): Push your library data into their database and then change the URL of each track to something pointing at the file on your server. I'm not sure if that could work, but if it's important to you may be worth exploring. How you'll get the data to them I have no idea. FTP a MySQL database dump, or a delimited text file to their server, then import it into MySQL I guess. You want a tunnel? Build one. > I do understand the slow changing tracks, that's due to buffering. I > see it with SoftSqueeze. > > To be able to browse the remote music collection the remote SS would > have to send the track data formatted for the local SS to format it for > the local player. I prefer Artist - Album but my parents may like > something else. I don't want to shove my preferred format down their > throat if that's not what they want. SS must pass the tag info, > something which current stream.mp3 streaming won't do as effectively. > That's why I believe so much that this needs to be a seperate plugin, > because there are a few caveats to doing this where the local SS needs > to control the local player but needs to parse specially formatted data > from the remote SS to keep everything looking consistent with the local > users' preferences. I thought display formatting was player specific. > For a wider audience, who don't have a static IP address, the ability to > resolve a hostname would be important, especially if using dyndns or > other similar services. I have a static IP address, so that's no issue > for me. My parents have a dynamic IP address, so IP address filtering > comes down to the block of addresses my ISP has, not ideal. Unless they're on dialup the address may be a lot more static than you realize. I've had the same Comcast IP address for going on two years. Other cable company users and DSL users report similar experiences. If you only had to fiddle with a single firewall rule every two years, isn't that good enough? > Integrated SSH may not be required as long as putty or or similar > tunneling tools can keep a persistent connection. It would also need > to be able to reconnect if the remote server goes down (it is Windows, > you have to reboot for EVERYTHING). Even with that, the plugin would > need to make periodic checks for the remote SS availability and if it's > not available show it unavailable and have an option to notify when it > is. Why in the world do you need SSH for streaming audio? If you don't like the ideas given previously, here's what you do: Copy your library to an external hard drive. When you visit your parents for Christmas, attach it to their server, configure SlimServer to look at the external disk, then go drink some eggnog. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30331 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
