luuk;202752 Wrote: > An alternative would be SoftSqueeze, but I why install something extra > when I already have SlimServer to feed my SB2? >
Arguably I don't think you actually need to install SoftSqueeze in order to use it. It's kind of already "installed" when you install slimserver. Just launch it, maybe as an applet, from the slimserver interface. Then it's no more installed than any java applet you come across on the web. So to me it seems Softsqueeze would be perfect for you since you can control it from the slimserver interface which you say you prefer. On a more technical note I think that SoftSqueeze is preferable since the stream.mp3 interface is very primitive in comparison. For instance depending on how much cache foobar is using you would not get instant track change since foobar would need to play the part of the current track in it's cache. This could add up to several seconds, especially with low bitrate files. This is all avoided due to the more complicated slimprotocol used by softsqueeze. Moreover as it seems both you and <b>jonhanson</b> need to use serverside transcoding its a bit annoying since with the stream.mp3 interface I think you need to set up transcoding globally. I.e. either all your players play flac, or none do. Softsqueeze gets assigned a virtual mac-address so you can do it per player instead. So, to me at least, softsqueeze is really the prefered thing to use since it really is built as the glove to fit the hand of slimserver... -- bhaagensen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bhaagensen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7418 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
