thx for bearing w/me... more dumb questions... snarlydwarf;277065 Wrote: > 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 follow you i think, its sending the data to the SB for it to play it. snarlydwarf;277065 Wrote: > 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.) well actually, forget sync'ing. what i am asking is, is it at all possible for anything, be it a second SB, Soft squeeze, winamp, whatever, even if it is NOT sync'd, to "tune in" to an already in-session playlist of SC to SB? it sounds like what you are saying is only a second SB or soft squeeze can do this, is that correct? and of the two, only a second SB is really adept at syncing? snarlydwarf;277065 Wrote: > 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?) well, for people with only one SB, it would work great. :) it would be a nice feature to embed into SC for folks who would like to do what i thought i could already do. i'm not real keen on installing soft squeeze just to do this, but i guess its my only choice. can i install softsqueeze on a windows machine without installing the rest of SC? i don't needs SC on the second machine otherwise. snarlydwarf;277065 Wrote: > 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") got it. basically i simply misunderstood how it worked. i thought SC was more like a robust shoutcast using some extra data to keep multiple players in sync. i see now i was way off. it might be an idea though, b/c it would be cool to allow people to connect any client they want to SC to a currently in play playlist. (i realize perfect syncing then wouldn't be possible) snarlydwarf;277065 Wrote: > 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...) got it. very interesting. thx for the info. -mdw -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SC 7.0.1beta - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=44423 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
