dbinder101;683233 Wrote: > "And since it is the Headless system that communicates with Squeezebox, > changes in the MiP database made with the GUI can't be scanned into > Squeezebox until the Headless database is refreshed." > > Is this really true? I always thought that the Headless database is > just a convenient way of having the MIP service always running rather > than having the MIP GUI open all the time?
Good point. This was my understanding. I suppose I got this idea from this wiki article (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Integrating_MusicIP_with_SqueezeCenter) which says (in the section "What is MusicIP?") that Headless is "the version that can be integrated with SC," as though the GUI version can't be. And maybe that was true when the wiki article was written. It's based on MiP 1.8, whereas the "current" version is 1.9. But now that I think about it, the GUI Options screen has a "Services" tab that allows you to define a services port (10002 by default, same as Headless) and that lists various services the GUI can export, including its API. And indeed cparker's instructions advise you to change the port number and uncheck all the service boxes so as to avoid conflict with Headless. In fact, my finding is that you don't have to do this: just leaving the services stopped in the GUI is enough. But if you start the services in the GUI (with the port number that SBS is listening on), and stop the Headless service, then MiP mixes do get created, and with the GUI's settings, not Headless's. I'm glad to have my error corrected. :-) It's still true, of course, that GUI and Headless maintain separate databases, and you have to make sure when you do a refresh that you refresh the database for the version that is talking to SBS. -- dpotts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dpotts's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29782 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92930 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
