djtopper;181983 Wrote: > Indeed, one system has my computer and some keyboards. Another has a > 200 disk CD changer. Yet another has a CD/DVD player and a tapedeck. > ... > Or ... if I consolodated all my music in one room ... could I stream > CDs, DVDs and tapes through the slimserver software to all my > Squeezeboxes? >
Yes, you could. I have a patch cable going from my receiver's Tape Out analog output to the Line In jack on a sound card in my Slimserver host. On the Slimserver host I am running the free Icecast (http://www.icecast.org/) streaming music server software. I use the free IceS software (http://www.icecast.org/ices.php) to encode the music from Line In as Ogg Vorbis for the Icecast software. (Another popular encoding software option is DarkIce, http://darkice.tyrell.hu/, which can also encode MP3 streams.) The Icecast software places almost no demand on my Slimserver host. That's not the case for IceS -- when my 2 GHz Athlon64 is running at full speed, IceS takes about 7-10% of the CPU capacity. Since my Slimserver host also runs my PVR, I've set up a menu on my PVR screens to start & stop IceS -- I have not yet bothered writing anything that would let me toggle IceS on/off from a Squeezebox. (I'm being pretty cautious about this -- I probably have enough CPU to spare, and the extra load probably is not enough to make my CPU throttling increase the CPU speed, and, therefore, power demands of the Slimserver/PVR host.) This setup allows any of my Squeezeboxes to "tune in" to whatever's playing on my stereo -- a CD I haven't ripped, a tape, a vinyl record, or something I'm watching on my TV set. -- peterw ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32928 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
