I think it's reasonable whether the files are local or not. If you want your slimserver to appear as an abstraction layer/appliance you play music through you have to use it in some way. For instance, gathering statistics, rating songs, integration with radio sources as a first class concept and so on.
If you tie yourself to playing files you are coupling to an implementation of music playback. It's generally better to abstract (in my opinion). This is one of my biggest frustrations with SlimServer. It doesn't make it easy enough to do this. Stream.mp3 is primitive (only supports one player for starters) and softsqueeze is really just a marketing tool for the squeezebox, and so its UI is constrained to match it. -- Smiley Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Smiley Dan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5456 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35369 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
