John, if you like to make the combination of Music Label 2008 and SlimServer to work as you like, it would probably require some development work. It might be easy or it might be hard, it all depends on how open Music Label 2008 is for third party development.
Some solutions that might work: 1. Extend the Music Label software so it sends a signal to SlimServer with the tracks you have selected to play. SlimServer has several programmatic interfaces to receive this information already today, so changes would only be required on the Music Label side. The natural choice would be to use the SlimServer CLI interface. All this either relies on that the Music Label developers implement this or that Music Label is possible to extend with plugins. In case Music Label is possible to extend with plugins, you can do it yourself or get some third party developer to do it for you. 2. If the Music Label database has an open interface, it would be possible to build a SlimServer plugin that read information from the Music Label database. This would probably require a lot more work than solution 1 mentioned above, but it wouldn't require any changes on the Music Label side assuming it's database already has an open interface. The solution would result in that you would get the information stored in the Music Label database into the SlimServer database, you would have to select what to play from the SlimServer/SqueezeBox interfaces but you could browse by the Music Label data. So if you really want to select what to play from Music Label, this is not a working solution. 3. If you are running Windows, you could install the Wave Input plugin in SlimServer. This will make it possible to play tracks in Music Label but SlimServer will pickup the audio from the sound card in the PC and transfer it to the SqueezeBox. I'm not sure how a low quality sound card in the PC will affect the sound quality from the SqueezeBox in a scenario like this. The advantage of this solution is that it wouldn't require any development work. I think this solution was mentioned earlier in the thread. Solution 1 and solution 2 is already today used by another external catalog software called MusicIP, so we know solutions using these concepts will work. It just requires some development to get it up and running. The iTunes integration in SlimServer is another example that uses the solution 2 concept, where the iTunes database is read from a SlimServer plugin. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and Database Query plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39597 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
