Welcome to the forums,
BrockStone;285467 Wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> 1) I have a large house. If I have 4-5 receivers running will
> streamed music be synchronized across multiple rooms? (useful for
> party hosting situations) I've seen numerous answers on this and would
> like one definite answer. The things I can see streaming are local
> mp3s/FLAC, Shoutcast internet radio streams, and sirius radio
> (canada). From what I gather it may be able to have some types of
> streams synced and others not? Obviously some rooms will be able to
> hear the music from other rooms so synchronization is VERY important.
>
>
andyg, who is a slimdevices developer/employee posted this definitive
breakdown in synchronization capabilities.
Code:
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SC7 SN (new datacenters)
MP3 radio Yes No
WMA radio No No
Pandora Yes Yes
Slacker Yes Yes
MP3tunes Yes Yes
Rhapsody Yes (up to 3) Yes (up to 3)
LMA Yes Yes
--------------------
so there you have it. The Rhapsody limitation is not a technical one,
but rather due to licensing afaik.
>
> 2) How many different streams can be going at once? Is the limit
> simply bandwidth? How is what is playing on each receiver set? Does
> the remote know about each receiver and you set the music on each that
> way?
>
The (bandwidth)sky is the limit :) The Controller controls one player
at the time (unless they are synced). One explicetly chooses "a
current player" to control.
>
> 3) I've seen hints that it cannot stream Sirius Canada streams, this
> would be a shame. True?
>
I don't know, but this page indicates you can (I only skimmed):
http://gregbrown.net/squeeze/sirius.htm
>
> 4) Any chance the remote headphone jack will be usable one day? It
> would be handy to toss the remote in my jacket and use it while out
> working in the yard. Or line out from the remote into a portable
> "boom box" that I could place at rendom locations where-ever I was.
>
afaik there has been no official announcements, but I think it is
likely it will happen at some point. A player application
(squeezeplay) developed in the same framework as the Controller runs
is in the works, so who knows. Also as you noted yourself, it's open
source, so I think at some point someone will cave in and do it. There
is also a cli player called squeezeslave which has been ported/compiled
for
the Controller and sort of works. But is is VERY rough atm.
>
> Thanks for any advice. I'm excited to order one once I finish my
> research. I'm conversant in perl among other things so I'm also
> looking forward to poking around at some development :)
>
New contributions are always welcomed.
Cheers,
Bjørn
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