Confused by description
A java implementation of the Squeezebox
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I'm new to streaming… but then many potential Softsqueeze "customers" will be.
The main page says….
"SoftSqueeze is a software implementation of the Squeezebox allowing your PC to stream the same music as your Squeezebox."
Is "to stream" not misleading? I thought Softsqueeze was a client? For looking at a media stream from some other source?
Now, an expert might know where I'm going wrong…. but that isn't the point, is it? If my error is common among newbies?
What I think is true…
To have MP3s (etc) on a hard disc somewhere on my LAN, and listen to them on any PC on the LAN (or dedicated "playback" devices), I need…
At least one "media server" to "pump out" the MP3s, etc, onto the LAN. This would probably be software running in the same PC (or NAS device?) that holds the hard drive with the MP3s on it….. and…
At least one "media client" to "catch", and send to speakers, the stream of digital data that the music has been turned into.
(That client, like the server, would consist of hardware and software. The hardware might(?) even be the same hardware the server software was running on, if I connected the client software via LocalHost. But maybe some server/client software won't allow this little bit of….. incest?)
So… as I (mis?) understand things, the server is what does the streaming. And, as I understand things Softsqueeze is not the server. Thus I was confused when the description said "Softsqueeze…. streams".
Just to show how generlly confused I am, I should add that the description above is too simplistic. In addition to the server serves/ client "reads" things already discussed, I believe that there is some communication FROM client, TO server, those messages being concerned with asking the server to send a "menu", and subsequently telling the server WHICH of the many MP3s on it's hard drive to send.
Sigh. Thanks for any help you can render… but the main idea of this is to suggest that you revise the description to clarify the whole idea, and to clarify what parts of the streaming puzzle are addressed by SoftSqueeze.
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While writing… in a similar "market your product" vein… perhaps adding entries to….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_UPnP_AV_MediaServers
…. and ….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPnP_AV_MediaServers
would be in your interest? (Even if SoftSqueeze doesn't stream video, but those pages already have other "audio only" items.)