Because it just happened that way. I had a single squeezebox server and I was unable to reliably get both live and listen again to work reliably for some time. After one of the BBC format changes some months ago I started having trouble (with my original squeezebox server). I tried to follow advice about AAC, flash etc. in the forums and posted a few questions but often found I needed to the restart the server before I could get one of the services to start and was always changing the check boxes but with (from my view) unpredictable results.
As the machine running the squeezebox was a heavily used workstation that has had hundreds of things installed on it at various times and has had seen several updates to squeeze server, i-player etc. I decided to build a brand new clean Windows 7 dedicated virtual machine with nothing else on it; then install a brand new squeeze server and apply the latest i-player plugin and leave everything with default settings. I was somewhat disappointed to find that when connected to this server I couldn't get live - it appears to start and sometimes flashes buffering 2% or 3% (never more) before remaining stuck on "connecting" [this is the one that has all but WMA checked]. Since I had a system in which changing library allowed me to have live or listen again (and this is quite easy on the radio - less so on my SB3s) I decided to live with it since I had now got back to where I was 6 months ago (with my original server) in that I can now hear either which is much better than what I had before. Ideally, I'd have one server by I am loathed to change anything and get back to frustrating scenario I had most of the summer. In particular, I am nervous of making I don't feel I understand what the various option actually do- in that I don't have a matrix in my head of pros, cons, radio program type and actual low level protocols associated with each of the options. e.g. I still don't understand why I should need the choices - isn't there just a correct configuration fora UK user? -- IanCHC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IanCHC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13400 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
