bpa wrote: > IIRC the LocalPlayer plugin enables a player on same system as LMS to > play files directly and not have the audio data streamed via TCP from > LMS. > > Squeezelite is the same player just version included with the plugin has > not been updated. > The plugin provides a subtle enhancement to reduce network traffic - not > that important. Not sure that installing Squeezelite was its primary > purpose.
There is an option to turn local access on/off in the settings for the plugin but its purpose seems to be, right now anyway, to enable playback on a machine running LMS, which as per the description for the plugin includes the player. I think the plugin will install the bundled player regardless of a player being present on the machine or not but I can't read the source well enough to tell. As far as I can tell the plugin is getting updates, latest one in october 2020, but I can't tell if the binaries are getting updated or not or if it just using different builds from the ones Ralphy are releasing, say without libraries to explain the significant difference in size (139K vs 4M). I think I'll go with Man in a vans suggestion until I know more as I don't think Ralphy would spend years working on the player for no good reason. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ v2k's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=71576 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97766 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
