On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:50 PM, bordo wrote: > > I'm a new user trying to understand how the SB works. I think I'm a > little confused on how audio streams (like internet radio) get to the > SB. My assumption was that the SB simply gets the url from the > slimserver or squeezenetwork and then the stream goes directly from > the > source to the SB. I started to question this assumption when I > tried to > stream to the SB on my local network (from a computer not running > slimserver) by adding my local ip stream address to my squeezenetwork > favorites...it didn't work. The same address works when using > slimserver. My conclusion is that streams go from the source => > slimserver or squeezenetwork => SB. Since squeezenetwork couldn't get > to my local stream it bombs. Is my conclusion correct? Can the SB > access a stream directly or is it always through a middleman? Thanks > in advance for straightening me out.
You need to add #slim:noscan=1 to the end of your URL if it's not accessible from the internet. SN tries to scan the URL to determine the type of audio it is, the title of the stream, bitrate, and so on. _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
