Happy New Year to you too!
I think you misunderstand the architecture of the Slim products.
The Slim in slim devices comes from the concept of a slim or thin
client, a music player that contains only the bare minimum needed to
get the job done. Everything else is on the network, meaning it profits
from economies that come down the pipe in later years without locking
you into the ones in the client. For instance, cheaper hard disks,
etc.
In practical terms, what that means is that the squeezeboxes contain
very little.
They have the hardware and firmware to
play music from the network,
display text and graphics on the display,
receive remote control codes and send them up the network.
Now, there is also limited firmware to display messages during client
bootup, to handle network setup, and to handle a few remote codes (like
reboot the client). But it's pretty limited.
So when you send CLI messages, you are sending them to slimserver, who
interprets where they need to be sent, and sends them there.
That's why all those people were looking for NASes that could run
slimserver. Because it has to be running *somewhere* just to work at
all.
There is also slimnetwork, where a web site on the internet substitutes
for slimserver and sends you music (but only from internet radio
stations, not songs on your own hard disk).
There is a project under way to break up the slim server code into
several smaller pieces. Because I think most people recognize that the
low level stuff that keeps the boxes supplied with audio and display
stuff is quite different in nature (and dispatching priority) than the
stuff that scans your music library and handles the web interface.
Then the different pieces could run at different priorities in the same
processor, or on totally different processors (if they communicate via a
network protocol).
Some people, like me and I gather you, want to actually drive the music
selection in a different way or by using different software. Then we
could leave some pieces of the supplied software out and substitute for
them ourselves.
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Michaelwagner
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