mattoleriver;520255 Wrote: > I've had my SB Radio for about a week now and I keep finding new ways to > confound and confuse myself. Do I have to choose between > mysqueezebox.com and squeezeboxserver? How do I determine which is best > for me? Where/how do I make the choice? > Thanks > George
Usually you need to run squeezeboxserver to access your music collection (unless you subscribed to online storage like mp3lockers.) You also need squeezeboxserver if the internet radio station or online music is in a format requiring transcoding (e.g. realaudio stream, some mms streams). Also, if you want to use some plugins like powercenter (to control X10 devices), you need squeezeboxserver. Chances are you will need to connect to squeezeboxserver from time to time. The main advantage of Mysqueezebox.com is that you do not need to power on your own computer if the music you want to listen is supported by your squeezebox. It is mainly about saving power. The downside is that you may need to switch between Mysqueezebox.com and squeezeboxserver from time to time. It is sometimes confusing for people, especially other family members. Therefore a lot of people (me included) just connect to squeezeboxserver all the time. Those people usually either have a very power efficient computer/NAS running 24/7 or with a regular computer but set up auto-standby to sleep in combination with wake-on-lan to save power. -- Honva ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Honva's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14948 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=75463 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
