MrSinatra;277055 Wrote: > > the first computer powering the SB is currently playling a playlist it > is making on its own via random mix.
Not quite: it is currently sending a selection of tracks to a specific SB. It isn't playing anything. It is a subtle but important difference. > > i simply want to tie a second computer, via winamp, into that currently > running playlist. In other words, you want to sync two players, one being stream.mp3 and one being a hardware player. That doesn't work. (There is no protocol to keep the two in sync.) > > is it not possible to do this at all? > Not via stream.mp3. You can get much closer with SoftSqueeze, but, no, stream.mp3 is not a peak at "what is streaming to other players" (how would that work for those with multiple players? which would it stream? or would it mix all of them into a mess?) Stream.mp3 is a seperate player, but with limited functionality (since WinAMP doesn't pass back things like "next track" or "please play this song instead") > > or is it something winamp can't do, but softsqueeze can? Exactly: stream.mp3 has no "back channel" for syncing. Softsqueeze does. (How well it works is another matter, mainly due to how Java keeps you from messing too closely to the hardware layer, which is exactly what you need to do for real syncing: there is no way java can know the size of the buffers at the various layers between it and the sound card, or how much the soundcard has in its output buffer...) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44423 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
