JJZolx Wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to easily be able to use the stream.mp3 > connection method to playback music at work from my home server. The > connection is no problem, I have a VPN nailed up between work and home > and I can easily connect to the SlimServer http server, and I can also > connect using SoftSqueeze. But sometimes I'd like to use Winamp > instead. > > If I pull up the web UI, the office computer player doesn't show up (I > have one called 'WorkPC - Winamp', in which I've set up the desired > bitrate limiting and other preferences). If I try to connect to > stream.mp3 at this point I get a synch error in Winamp. Ok, there's no > stream happening, so I understand that. I guess. > > So I play something to a Squeezebox on my home(?) network. Now I can > connect to stream.mp3 from Winamp, but I get no music. I suppose that > makes sense, the music isn't being streamed to this player. > > Now, at this point the player will show up in the SlimServer web UI and > I can then add music to its playlist. Press 'play' again in Winamp and > I get music on the office PC. > > All pretty damned confusing, as I'm not sure exactly what's going on > here. Is there an explanation, or is this just the quirky way this has > to work?
it would appear that's the way it works unless you use softsqueeze. i was doing the same thing for a week or so -- vain4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ vain4's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3502 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21434 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
