Please keep the list cc'd since others may know more than I do.
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, stan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 04:29:18PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote:
Sorry for the brevity earlier. The squeezecenter software is intended
for use in supporting the Squeezebox family of hardware music players
made by Logitech, hence the "congrats". You *don't* actually have to
create any account, and I'm not sure why they ask you to. You don't
have to buy a player either; I use the included Java Web Start
"virtual player". On the web interface, look under Extras ->
SoftSqueeze and use either the applet or the JWS. Or you could buy a
player [later], or both.
Thanks for taking the time to help out with this. What I am trying to
do is make the music available to some friends of mine, who live in a
diferent city. I want them to be ble to downlaod the songs, so that
can play them on thier Ipods, and alos listen to the music streamed
from my machine.
I would first get it working on your local network, then work on the
remote part.
OK, I downloaded, and ran that.
You also need to put your music on the server in order to serve it
(!). I have mine in a hierarchy of directories for artists and
albums, but I guess you could just put your (properly tagged) mp3s on
the machine somewhere. Tell squeezecenter where it is and have it
re-scan.
Right, I have them in the webservers tree. I figured out how to point
the software at them, and created a new directory for the "project",
Now I can work my way through picking musinc, but when I press that
"play" Icon (right hand top of the screen). it does not play the misc.
What am I doing wrong?
I'm guessing that when you say "screen", you mean the web interface to
the Squeezecenter server, accessed via http://your_servers_ip:9000. That
screen talks to the server; it does not control the local machine on
which you are browsing to it. Presumably the local machine has the X
display, sound card etc. Just to confuse the issue some more, the server
can run on the same machine as you're browsing from.
Although you don't need to buy a hardware player, you (and whatever
friends want to listen later) will have to run some sort of player. As I
said before, if you don't want to buy a hardware player you can use
either of the two built-in Java-based software players.
HTH.
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Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org
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