Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Nojelc;627653 Wrote: As an aside it makes we wonder why SbS does not come with a Player as standard. I would have thought it would be a reasonable common requirement to play audio from the PC you run SbS on, controlling output from the web interface. When I purchased my Vortexbox (VBA) it came with an integral player. I always use SoftSqueeze (a plug-in) because it makes for very a easy install on remote machines (at friend's houses, for example.) On the remote machine, you go to the Home page of the webUI, open extras and select Softsqueeze. It's well worth installing the Java MP3 plugin (from here: https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_Developer-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=javamp3-1_0-oth-JPR@CDS-CDS_Developer) on the target machines. P -- pski real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages- them.. It is truly the Golden Age of Wireless pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Thanks pski, just what I wanted. As an aside it makes we wonder why SbS does not come with a Player as standard. I would have thought it would be a reasonable common requirement to play audio from the PC you run SbS on, controlling output from the web interface. When I purchased my Vortexbox (VBA) it came with an integral player. -- Nojelc Nojelc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Nojelc;627653 Wrote: As an aside it makes we wonder why SbS does not come with a Player as standard. I would have thought it would be a reasonable common requirement to play audio from the PC you run SbS on, controlling output from the web interface. I agree that can be confusing for new users, but one fairly obvious reason is that they don't make any money on the software, only on the hardware. A second is that with very scarce development resources, they don't have the time/people to support any of the software players, all of which are either 3rd party contributions or perpetual beta. Third, for a lot of users the idea of SB is to play music _away_ from the computer. Why bundle a player with the server software when (a) many people aren't interested, and (b) it's easy to download separately? The last point also pertains to SB's cross-platform nature. For example, in my case, when I want a software player it's usually on Windows or Maemo (Nokia N800). But my SBS is on debian Linux, so a bundled player probably wouldn't be useful anyway. Vortexbox came with an integral player because it's designed to be a straight-out-of-the-box solution. The VBA people also make their money on hardware, not software, and including squeezeplay in the distro allows them to market the VBA as a player as well as a server. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Not sure what you mean by Windows Services. I am starting SbS by having Startup at Logon selected in the Control Panel. I am starting squeezeplay by having a shortcut to in the Startup folder. Somehow I just want to delay the startup of Squeezeplay by a minute or so. -- Nojelc Nojelc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Not sure what you mean by Windows Services. I am starting SbS by having Automatically run at Login selected in the Control Panel. I am starting squeezeplay by having a shortcut to it in the Startup folder. Somehow I just want to delay the startup of Squeezeplay by a minute or so. -- Nojelc Nojelc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Nojelc;627456 Wrote: Not sure what you mean by Windows Services. I am starting SbS by having Automatically run at Login selected in the Control Panel. I am starting squeezeplay by having a shortcut to it in the Startup folder. Somehow I just want to delay the startup of Squeezeplay by a minute or so. Instead of the shortcut in the startup folder, create a text file called something like startplay.cmd The .cmd is essential- you may have to change folder options by using control panel/folder options/view and uncheck Hide extensions for known file types. In that text file,enter timeout x c:\program files\squeezebox\squeezeplay\squeezeplay.exe where x is the number of seconds you want to wait before trying to run squeezeplay. Then, put a shortcut pointing to startplay.cmd in your startup folder. P -- pski real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages- them.. It is truly the Golden Age of Wireless pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Nojelc;627214 Wrote: Just been setting things up in my second/holiday home. I normally use 2 Duets, but here I have the PC running SBS right by my audio so I have been trying out Squeezeplay. I want to be able to just power up the PC and then be able to select music from the Controller as soon as it is up and running. To achieve this I have got both SBS and squeezeplay auto starting. The problem is that squeezeplay gets up and running sooner than SBS, and being unable to find a server does not connect. When SBS is up and running later I have to frig around with the controller to get the player connected. If however I manually start squeezeplay after SBS is started it just works. So the question is can I delay the auto start of squeezeplay until SBS is up? What operating system? P -- pski real stereo doesn't just wake the neighbors, it -enrages- them.. It is truly the Golden Age of Wireless pski's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15574 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Apologies for omitting crucial info - Vista -- Nojelc Nojelc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
What do you mean when you say SbS and SqueezePlay are 'auto starting'? Are they running as Windows services? SbS can easily be set up to run as a Windows service through the included Windows control panel app. If you're doing the same with SqueezePlay, it would be important to know how you're doing it. -- JJZolx JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Auto starting SBS and squeezeplay
Just been setting things up in my second/holiday home. I normally use 2 Duets, but here I have the PC running SBS right by my audio so I have been trying out Squeezeplay. I want to be able to just power up the PC and then be able to select music from the Controller as soon as it is up and running. To achieve this I have got both SBS and squeezeplay auto starting. The problem is that squeezeplay gets up and running sooner than SBS, and being unable to find a server does not connect. When SBS is up and running later I have to frig around with the controller to get the player connected. If however I manually start squeezeplay after SBS is started it just works. So the question is can I delay the auto start of squeezeplay until SBS is up? -- Nojelc Nojelc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14353 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87245 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
