Re: [slim] Using Squeezebox as wireless DAC
d6jg wrote: > Think some people might of got the wrong end of the stick here - do you > mean you want to play ANY audio that's on your laptop to one of your > Squeezebox devices ? > > If so then do you have a working LMS on your network ? Assuming you do > then you need to run it with upnp switched on then your squeezeboxes > will appear in Windows Media Player etc as players. How you switch upnp > on depends on what OS LMS is running on. Thanks for pointing that out, d; yes, to clarify, I want to play ANY audio through the squeezebox. For example: youtube, BBC iPlayer, movies on my hard drive or DVD. I do already have LMS running on Win 8. Your suggestion about upnp sounds interesting. Do you have more info or can you point me somewhere? Phonophobe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63939 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103003 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Using Squeezebox as wireless DAC
RonM wrote: > LMS needs to be involved, so you need to install that on your laptop. > > Normally one would have a wifi router acting as intermediary between the > laptop and the players (with the speakers built in to the Boom). In the > absence of that, you can set up the laptop so that it is in effect both > the server and the router. You do this by implementing an "ad hoc" > connection between the laptop and the device. "Ad hoc" is what it's > called in the Windows context. > > I've done this with my laptop and a Boom, when on vacation. Allowed me > to control the music from my laptop, from the Boom and using a remote. > Could use an Android/iPhone as well. > > Ad hoc connections are not the most straightforward things, but > ultimately work fine. There are more difficulties implementing these on > Win8, but it's not impossible. > > R. Thanks for this, RonM, very interesting. I do usually use a router between my laptop and the players but I have been having connectivity problems, possibly due to my wireless extender (but that's a whole other issue altogether!), so I'll look into the ad hoc connection. Unfortunately I am running Win 8 at present. Phonophobe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63939 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103003 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[slim] Using Squeezebox as wireless DAC
I want to play audio from my laptop through my hifi wirelessly. I already own two Squeezebox Classics and a Boom. Is it possible to set these up as simple wireless DACs so that any audio which would normally be heard from my laptop speakers is played through the hifi? Many thanks! Phonophobe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63939 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103003 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
