Wouldn't it just be easier to use SoftSqueeze? Once the player is
connected to SS, you could adjust whatever settings for that player/ip,
and they could browse/listen to your music as though they were sitting
in your living room. Why should they even use the SS Web UI?
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nicketynick;189456 Wrote:
Wouldn't it just be easier to use SoftSqueeze? Once the player is
connected to SS, you could adjust whatever settings for that player/ip,
and they could browse/listen to your music as though they were sitting
in your living room. Why should they even use the SS
azinck3;189460 Wrote:
That's mostly true, but I assumed that with MrSinatra's emphasis on
simple that he wouldn't want to force people to install a new piece
of software or learn how to use softsqueeze (after all, if Slimserver's
too complex for these users then who's to say softsqueeze
nicketynick;189465 Wrote:
That's the point - all the nit-picky stuff can be set by whoever is
'controlling' the server!
This is no less true with mp3 streaming.
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No, no, it was probably me with an antagonistic tone! Sorry. I was
imagining differently, and it seemed to me Softsqueeze was the easier
way. I think the problem with stream.mp3 is that the user has to use
the webUI for playlist generation, etc. which is to be avoided - no
telling what else
To a degree the whole idea of using Softsqueeze brings up a point that
some people have wanted: an easy way to duplicate player settings. As
it stands now, when I change SlimServer to a different version I have
to change all of the menu, display, and audio settings for 2 SB3s and 2
Softsqueeze
4mula1;189484 Wrote:
To a degree the whole idea of using Softsqueeze brings up a point that
some people have wanted: an easy way to duplicate player settings. As
it stands now, when I change SlimServer to a different version I have
to change all of the menu, display, and audio settings for
What would be great if you could open a port on your router and ten
connect a Squeezebox from work by just entering the mysqbox.dyndns.com
in the squeezebox and log in using a pre defined Username/password...
Just imagane being able to set up a squeezebox connected to your music
collection from
i have mentioned this before, but i really would appreciate it if SD
would create a way for me locally to control and configure SS's public
face...
in that way, i could set the bitrate, give them the skin i want them to
see, and simply let the person connect to the addy i give them, and
either
MrSinatra;189335 Wrote:
i have mentioned this before, but i really would appreciate it if SD
would create a way for me locally to control and configure SS's public
face...
in that way, i could set the bitrate, give them the skin i want them to
see, and simply let the person connect to the
azinck3;189342 Wrote:
I don't really understand your request. I think that's because I don't
understand the use case here...why are these random people connecting
to your copy of slimserver?
ok, let me explain, it isn't random people, its friends or people i
want to show it to, but it COULD
Have you considered launching a pirate radio station but only telling
your mates?
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MrSinatra;189349 Wrote:
ok, let me explain, it isn't random people, its friends or people i
want to show it to, but it COULD be random people if i wanted it to
be...
the way i understand SS to work, is that it uses sessions kinda like
XP does.
so i could be sitting here locally
MrSinatra wrote:
does this make more sense?
It explains what your particular use-case is.
However, Slimserver isn't designed to do what you want it to do, which
is why you consider it confusing.
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azinck3;189365 Wrote:
This sort of functionality is well outside the design parameters of
slimserver which is designed to serve and support slim devices'
hardware (SB/transporter)
THEY are the ones who put the ability to stream a stream to someone on
the net, including supporting a software
I didn't really explain one of the things I said very well:
Slimserver does not associate a particular viewer with a particular
player. All viewers (and yes, there can be an unlimited number of
viewers -- all you're doing is making page requests) are peers who
have full access to all of
MrSinatra;189370 Wrote:
allow me to restate my request entriely, and tell me if this is
something not too far from SS now:
i would like the ability to control locally the skin and the settings
(like bitrate limiting) for any single remote user who happens to
listen to my SS.
as it is
MrSinatra wrote:
i would like the ability to control locally the skin and the settings
(like bitrate limiting) for any single remote user who happens to
listen to my SS.
That's a reasonable request - others have asked for similar things. Try
searching enhancement requests or raising a new
Well now I am Mr Happy - I recieved my SB3 on Sunday (Thank You Her
Indoors) so now I have to work on sorting all my tag info out, whilst
listening at home and work.
Oh great Joy :-)
BT
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This sounds like its getting increasingly complicated...
Work firewall issues aside, all you should need to do to allow audio
streaming remotely (from your home slimserver to you at work) is this:
1. Configure your router firewall to forward incoming TCP port 9000
traffic to port 9000 on the
Good, comprehensive description, Chris. Two small things to add:
chris.mason;188018 Wrote:
4. Open your media player, and point it at http://your home ip
address:9000/steam.mp3
there's a typo there, it should be stream.mp3
Also, to use softsqueeze rather than stream.mp3 (you want to use
Many thanks for all your helpful comments and suggestions.
Having now tried everything apart for SSH tunnel, it looks like a
tunnel is required. I have no joy with anything so far, always getting
the same 'connection timed out' problem.
I did get a hamachi connection to link my home to work pc,
azinck3;188023 Wrote:
Good, comprehensive description, Chris. Two small things to add:
there's a typo there, it should be stream.mp3
Also, to use softsqueeze rather than stream.mp3 (you want to use
softsqueeze, trust me, stream.mp3 is a strange and horrible beast)
you'll need to
chris.mason;188028 Wrote:
Could you elaborate on why stream.mp3 is strange and/or horrible? I
steam internet radio (typically shoutcast and lastfm stuff), and my
music via mp3 to work. I usually throttle it to 160kb so as not to
affect my home upload bandwidth (other people at home use the
BigTony;188027 Wrote:
I have forwared ports 9000 and 3483 on my router, and I can listen to
internet radion on SS at home.
To be clear, port forwarding doesn't really have any bearing on your
access to slimserver within your own LAN. The port forwarding you've
set up is what allows devices
I can access my PC from a wirless acess point (so not from my home
network).
Anyways - just to add to the fun I have Actually Got It To Work :-)
I resorted to SSH tunnel - wasn't to tricky to setup.
However, music is choppy as hell ... do I need to flip some valves on
SS on my home pc? I made
BigTony;188046 Wrote:
I can access my PC from a wirless acess point (so not from my home
network).
Anyways - just to add to the fun I have Actually Got It To Work :-)
I resorted to SSH tunnel - wasn't to tricky to setup.
However, music is choppy as hell ... do I need to flip some valves
Way to go Big Tony! Which set of directions did you use to set up SSH?
As much as chris.mason assures us its straightforward, I'm still
intimidated - it looks like the kind of thing where I could manage to
irreparably break something, and lose all functionality!
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Wireless SB3,
nicketynick;188051 Wrote:
Way to go Big Tony! Which set of directions did you use to set up SSH?
As much as chris.mason assures us its straightforward, I'm still
intimidated - it looks like the kind of thing where I could manage to
irreparably break something, and lose all functionality!
I
shadowboxer;188053 Wrote:
I second that request! I have hamachi working most of the time.
Wondering if ssh would be effective and would love to know where and
which ssh program you downloaded.
thanks in advance
dale
It is straight forward, honest! Would I lie to you..? ;-) I think
azinck3;188050 Wrote:
Great! You need to turn on bitrate limiting. If you go to your
slimserver web page you should see your new player listed on the left.
Click it to edit the player settings. Go to the audio settings. Turn
bitrate limiting down to 128kbps or something like
azinck3;188035 Wrote:
I'm surprised you haven't run into the awkwardness of stream.mp3.
Perhaps some streaming clients work better than others.
This is why I don't like it:
1) Setting bitrate limiting for the first time is a little strange.
You have to connect to your server, then
Well I really must give a big thank you to everyone thats helped me to
finally get music streaming here in my office .. now I can happily
listen to Zappa all day :-)
I just hope that the IT wrecking crew don't start poking about and tell
me to switch it all off.
A few points that were not clear
BigTony;188074 Wrote:
5) If you can't get onto http://HOME_PC:9000 straight away - don't muck
about - go for a SSH tunnel, it works and it was the easiest of the
options I've had to setup this week (took about an hour)
So I take it you used the instructions chris.mason pointed to for
Yes, that and a tutorial I was also pointed to, but it was really quite
easy on windows XP.
Cheers
BT
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BigTony;188074 Wrote:
To view your home SlimServer via your tunnel or VPN, TURN off local
proxy or such like settings, that sure did waste a few hours of my
time. Not sure how I can switch them on/off in IE, but when the system
is set up and running you don't need to log onto SS as much.
Very glad that you've got this working!
I feel I should stress though that you should really avoid opening your
slimserver directly to the world through ports 9000 and 3483.It
presents a security risk. Using SSH (or VPN) is a much safer approach.
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Is there anyway to have a squeezebox directly accessing a remote
slimserver using Hamachi?
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agentsmith;188213 Wrote:
Is there anyway to have a squeezebox directly accessing a remote
slimserver using Hamachi?
No, you have to go through a proxy of some sort because the SB can't do
the encryption.
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Thanks for all your helpful comments, but I'm still no closer to geting
it to work.
I used port forwarding on my home system, for the required ports
through my router. I also checked my external IP address to make sure I
was trying to connect with the correct one, but I still get timed out
It's down to two firewalls then: your own at home and your employers'.
Your own at home will not allow SlimServer to communicate out to the
Internet without you specifically allowing it to.
And your employer's firewall often blocks the needed ports. This you
can't change, you'll have to work
BigTony;187328 Wrote:
Dear All,
Having just become a convert to SS, I also would like to listen to
music at work. I have had a go browsing the forums, but I seem to have
spent a good few hours and I'm not really any nearer what it is I need
to do.
My Setup:
SS running on my PC at
A good step at this point may be to verify that your home network can be
connected to from outside the walled garden. Try to access it from a
computer that is a friend's or relative's just to make sure it does
work as expected. This way you are outside of your employer's network
and don't have
Thanks for the Hamachi link. I have tried that but still not joy, when I
try and ping the network between my office and home, I get request timed
out error.
Looks like my office firewall has the better of me.
Cheers
BT
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BigTony;187575 Wrote:
Thanks for the Hamachi link. I have tried that but still not joy, when I
try and ping the network between my office and home, I get request timed
out error.
Looks like my office firewall has the better of me.
Cheers
BT
I thought Hamachi works over port 80, i.e.
'Does your home SlimServer have full Internet access on your home PC?
You avoided that question earlier.'
erm .. not sure what the answer is ... how do I check this?
I forwarded the ports on my router (3483 and 9000)
I can use the server from within my home network, but I've not tried to
BigTony;187585 Wrote:
Humm, do I need to use
http://My_External_IP:9000/ on a PC at home to see if I can see the
server from the outside..
That kind of loopback doesn't usually work.
Here's something that's easier to try: play Internet radio through
SlimServer. If you can play Internet
BigTony;187575 Wrote:
Thanks for the Hamachi link. I have tried that but still not joy, when I
try and ping the network between my office and home, I get request timed
out error.
Looks like my office firewall has the better of me.
Cheers
BT
BigTony:
You have hamachi installed both
shadowboxer wrote:
BigTony;187328 Wrote:
Dear All,
Having just become a convert to SS, I also would like to listen to
music at work. I have had a go browsing the forums, but I seem to have
spent a good few hours and I'm not really any nearer what it is I need
to do.
My Setup:
SS
First off make sure there aren't any firewall settings that are
interfering with the connection. If you have port forwarding set in
your router (correctly) you either have a firewall problem or aren't
allowing hosts other than localhost to connect. I don't know exactly
where that setting is but
BigTony;187328 Wrote:
Things I 'think' in need to do :
Portforward 9000 (and the other port) to my router
You're on the right track. Forward the two ports and also be sure that
you're using the right ip address for your computer at home: you'll
need to find your global IP address
Remote streaming, SSH, firewall, etc... what a hassle! And nothing more
than a solution looking for a problem.
Just get a portable player (or USB hard drive) and plug it into your PC
or speakers at work. Side benefit: you can listen to your collection in
your car on the way to work.
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fathom39;187413 Wrote:
Remote streaming, SSH, firewall, etc... what a hassle! And nothing more
than a solution looking for a problem.
Just get a portable player (or USB hard drive) and plug it into your PC
or speakers at work. Side benefit: you can listen to your collection in
your car
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