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Title: regular computer media director
Post by: 7h3kk1d on March 03, 2011, 10:04:43 pm
Sorry if this has been asked before but can you use a desktop computer as a media director while still in use. I want to know to setup house wide audio without buying a ton of squeeze boxes which I can't afford given the steep price.
Title: Re: regular computer media directoe
Post by: tkmedia on March 03, 2011, 10:20:41 pm
You can run squeezeslave on multiple devices , low cost routers, switches, NAS, Media directors the cores as well as Windows PC's.
LMCE see's them as squeezeboxes and can control them from any orbiter.



HTH

Tim
Title: Re: regular computer media directoe
Post by: 7h3kk1d on March 03, 2011, 10:36:35 pm
Thank you very much. Is it reliable?
Title: Re: regular computer media directoe
Post by: totallymaxed on March 04, 2011, 12:33:58 am
Thank you very much. Is it reliable?

Yes Squeezeslave is very reliable in our experience and as tkmedia says above really performs as a physical squeezebox would from an audio/api perspective. It uses very little cpu so will run on pretty much any kind of machine with a soundcard (or cards...you can run several instances of Squeezeslave + soundcard on a single machine)

All the best


Andrew
Title: Re: regular computer media directoe
Post by: JoakimL on March 04, 2011, 08:29:26 pm
Squeezeslave is very good, but make sure to pay attention to the quality of the sound card. Personally I run a Squeezebox 3, here in Sweden you can get them used for less than €80 and that's a bargain considering the sound quality.

/Joakim
Title: Re: regular computer media directoe
Post by: JoakimL on March 04, 2011, 08:32:23 pm
And one more thing, if you happen to have an iPhone - iPeng now has an built in Squeezeslave. Costs approx €10 and gives you a quite ok solution. Works perfectly with LMCE.
/Joakim
Title: Re: regular computer media director
Post by: 7h3kk1d on March 05, 2011, 12:04:07 am
Thanks a lot for the help. If you don't mind me asking one more question, if I pause a song on a single squeezebox or squeezeslave will it pause all the music in all the zones?
Title: Re: regular computer media director
Post by: JoakimL on March 05, 2011, 12:45:39 am
Only if the players are synced; if not the are controlled one by one.
You sync the players in the web GUI or from iPeng.

/Joakim