I had originally never intended to buy a Squeezebox. I think for what they are, they are over priced and currently I'm not willing to pay that premium. (just think you can buy a full PC for that price now - or even a network player that's also capable of video)
I had looked at the Pinnacle Soundbridge, which to me seems a very sensible price for a consumer product. However unfortunately it seems that has been crippled in terms of it's support for SlimServer. I'd been playing with UPnP on FreeNAS and was very disappointed with the facilities in the software players available. So when I came across SlimNAS and SoftSqueeze it seemed like quite a good solution. Back to the issue with the WMA streams... So yes it sounds like I do need AlienBBC to transcode the WMA streams so SoftSqueeze can play them. I know I could just use Windows Media Player on the client PC, but now I've played with SqueezeCenter, I like the idea of everything in one place and the ability to synchronise players. Yes Michael, I've followed the instructions on your web page to alter the custom-convert.conf file and can listen to all the BBC ra streams fine. I'm wondering if the mplayer you've used can cope with these wma streams, especially as pba has said they work on his setup (which I'm assuming is a full OS rather than SlimNAS) - but currently I haven't found a way to debug what AlienBBC / mplayer is doing so I can see any error messages. I've increased the network timeout to 20s and after pressing play, I just see the counter count up, but don't hear any audio. Every now and again the counter resets (sometimes at 30s, 6s there doesn't seem to be a pattern at the moment). Liam -- liam.whiteside ------------------------------------------------------------------------ liam.whiteside's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14546 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41436 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
