bpa;257162 Wrote:
Minimal s/w development approach - you could consider the following:
1. Take the current SqueezeCenter sourceand disable all user menu
options you don't want to provide to your users. I'm sure some advice
will be given how to scale to 500 users.
2. If MP3 files are on
Just some initial comments.
1. I didn't say only one hardware server. I can't see any reason why
you can't have multiple servers - you just need some load sharing to
manage the incoming conections. AFAICT this is the basis for
Squeezenetwork which handles 100's of concurrent users in more than
erland;256935 Wrote:
If thinking about writing your own server, this thread may be of
interest, it contains two alternative simple servers:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38173
erland thank you very much,
Of course, i am not thinking on developing a new server from scratch.
Minimal s/w development approach - you could consider the following:
1. Take the current SqueezeCenter sourceand disable all user menu
options you don't want to provide to your users. I'm sure some advice
will be given how to scale to 500 users.
2. If MP3 files are on the same server as
Heh everyone wants to write their own server... have fun, it's a lot of
work!
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bpa;256451 Wrote:
The SB is a thin client - which in this case it has a basic
functionality to fetch audio but all the display control has to come
from a server. SB has a proprietary control protocol - called
slimproto.
The main server is Slimserver/SqueezeCenter. Servers such as Itunes
moschous
I think you'd get better answers faster if you described the actual
problem you're trying to solve rather than talking about possible
solutions. What's your server hardware? How many players? What's the
network topology? What file types? Usage scenarios? It may be that
there's already a
radish;256818 Wrote:
moschous
I think you'd get better answers faster if you described the actual
problem you're trying to solve rather than talking about possible
solutions. What's your server hardware? How many players? What's the
network topology? What file types? Usage scenarios? It
If thinking about writing your own server, this thread may be of
interest, it contains two alternative simple servers:
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38173
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Hi,
first of all i would like to thank you for your response on this
thread. Besides on this, i think that this is a good
opportunity to start a thread related to performance / scalability /
reliability / stability of slim server while
talking for providing a service (mp3 library service or
moschous;256367 Wrote:
Hi,
first of all i would like to thank you for your response on this
thread. Besides on this, i think that this is a good
opportunity to start a thread related to performance / scalability /
reliability / stability of slim server while
talking for providing a
if the internet radio can deliver native formats such as WMA and MP3
then the SB communicates directly with the source and Slimserver is not
used except for screen text. Similarly for podcasts.
This is the basis for Squeezenetwork (which is essentially a set of
public slimservers with no local
bpa;256380 Wrote:
if the internet radio can deliver native formats such as WMA and MP3
then the SB communicates directly with the source and Slimserver is not
used except for screen text. Similarly for podcasts.
This is the basis for Squeezenetwork (which is essentially a set of
public
The SC code is very scalable, SqueezeNetwork serves many thousands of
concurrent players.
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BTW, has anybody was ever able to connect SB to any other streaming
platform ?
The SB is a thin client - which in this case it has a basic
functionality to fetch audio but all the display control has to come
from a server. SB has a proprietary control protocol - called
slimproto.
The main
moschous;256019 Wrote:
a. There is a software called slimserver which also includes some
predefined internet stations (shoutcasts, url to playlists, etc) that
Squeezebox is able to connect to.
Yes, but it also serves as a media server for local files amongst other
things.
b. There is
moschous;256019 Wrote:
I guess that the restrictions will come first from the bandwidth-side.
is there any way to setup load-balancing while delivering mp3's on big
number of squeezeboxes?
That depends on a lot of factors.
Wireless: You have 10-15 mbps of bandwidth (as long as your
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