The squeezebox always needs a server to connect to. The server controls almost every aspect of the device. The server tells it what to display (even the time display in the off state is sent by the server), sends the audio data, even button presses on the remote control are sent to and processed by the server. When you want to listen to your own music you need to connect the squeezebox to your local slimserver. You can also listen to internet radio this way. The server software reads the data from the internet radio stream and sends it to the squeezebox. If you listen to BBC streams slimserver delegates the processing of the stream to AlienBBC because it cannot handle the data format of the stream. AlienBBC converts the stream into a format slimserver understands and can send to the squeezebox.
SqueezeNetwork is nothing more than a public slimserver in the internet. Instead of connecting to your local server you connect to a server provided by Slimdevices. You can only connect to one or the other, not both. Because none (except network settings) of your preferences are stored in the squeezebox (it's a rather dumb device, remember?) but on the server you won't have the same settings in SqueezeNetwork and your own server. You won't be able to listen to any streams that require AlienBBC when connected to SqueezeNetwork because AlienBBC is not installed on that server. I hope this gives you an idea of how the squeezebox, slimserver and SqueezeNetwork work together. -s. -- slimpy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29700 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
