[slim] Re: Playing songs not in library

2005-12-19 Thread radish
What I've done in this situation is copy the file into the music folder, play it with Browse Music Folder, then delete it and hit rescan. I don't seem to have the same problems some people do with rescanning so it's pretty transparent to me. -- radish ---

[slim] Re: Playing songs not in library

2005-12-19 Thread alex_london
Just to add something - all this should be possible, but the ideal solution for me would be to control all this through SlimServer. Perhaps something like "Browse Music Folder" which plays stuff but doesn't add them to the library... -- alex_london -

[slim] Re: Playing songs not in library

2005-12-19 Thread alex_london
I did consider that... cost is not an issue, as VLC supports audio (and video) streaming to the network... and it's free! I tinkered with it a bit but haven't been able to get it to work. Having said that, I only spent 5 minutes on it, but as soon as I get some time I'll try and get it to work.

[slim] Re: Playing songs not in library

2005-12-18 Thread JJZolx
alex_london Wrote: > Is there any way I can play songs that are not in my SlimServer library > (and keep them out of it after playing them)? Nope. Drives me crazy, too. :) I believe this capability is being worked on for SlimServer 6.5, which will be the next major release of SlimServer. Still