I think you have a fundamental design decision to make. What you want to do can be achieved a couple of different ways and there are pros/cons of each:
Option 1. Run Slimserver on a single machine but give it access to all the music stored on each laptop (you can put symbolic links into a top level music folder and Slimserver will read all the music stored in the folders which are linked to the top level one). I think this will work if the laptops can access each others music as if they were a network drive. You then have one big library of all your music, and there is a Multi Library plugin (mentioned already) which will allow you just to see your own music. However, the players will only work if Slimserver on the single laptop is switched on. Option 2. Install Slimserver on each machine that has music, and put only the music in that box into the Library. Then use something like the ServerSwitcher plugin (see 'here' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33726&highlight=serverswitcher)) to swap each player between the different instances of Slimserver as you need to. In theory, that is. Never tried it myself. IMHO the time and inconvenience of trying to work out where any individual bit of music is when you want to listen to it makes pooling it in a single place the easier option, but I can see why it would work for you to keep all these separate. My better half and I have about 9000 tracks which exist under seperate top level folders on an old Dell PC. Slimserver reads both and gives us a combined library, but we use Multi Library and filters in MusicIP to seperate out our music when we only want to listen to our own. We've been together for long enough (and plan to stay together for a while more) that it's been worth it to combine the two like this. Can I also throw in an option 3, depending on your broadband speed and number/size of files? Upload all your music to Mp3tunes.com and you can then access it via Squeezenetwork without the need to run Slimserver at all... -- Siduhe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Siduhe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=723 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42906 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
