How to install / use Squeezeslave on Windows

[Anonymous]

Despite a fair amount of searching, I have not been able to find any documentation describing how to install and use squeezeslave on Windows.

I found the 0.9-95 downloads.  This includes three executables - squeezeslave, squeezeslave-asio, and squeezeslave-pastable.

1. Do I have to put the executables in a particular location?
2. What is the difference between those three executables?
3. Are there other dependencies I must install?

I tried just running squeezeslave from the command line.  SqueezeCenter finds the running instance of squeezeslave and allows me to fire up an Internet radio station, but back in the cmd window squeezeslave displays:

libmad: (mp3) bad stream pointer (0x0235)

What does this mean?

Where can I find other documentation about how Squeezeslave works?  For example, can it stream Ogg Vorbis files natively, or does it have to transcode them to mp3?

[ralphy]

It means the stream is not 44.1KHz, 2-channel stereo.  Which is the only format supported.  Squeezeslave streams flac, mp3, ogg vorbis and wave formats natively.  See the Logitech forums for a script that transcodes all unsupported formats to the above.  http://forums.slimdevices.com

[kabe3]

Well, that answers the detail question. But not the key topic, which is also my key question: how to install?

I now get things running, double clicking (and then approving) the squeezeslave.exe.
Yet, this opens a black (commandlike) window. And the system works only as long as I keep this window opened. Is that the endgame: that I always have to open, approve and keep opend this black window?

Or should some file(s) (which?) be copy-pasted somewhere (where)?
(BTW: I work on windows/vista in case it would matter)

Thanks in advance,

kabe3

[mr-br]

AIUI you don't install it, as such. It's a stand alone command line program.

I have recently migrated to SqueezePlay which replicates the Controller on Windows i.e. so gives you a fair sight more UI functionality than SqueezePlay. It's also being actively maintained.
You can download SP from the nightly builds.

[imcon]

This topic is exactly what I'm looking for.
I really appreciate the work people do for Open Source projects, although it often leads to problem with documentation, quality of the UI, descriptions… exactly the case as with all the Squeeze products.

I have Squeezebox Duet, my SqueezeCenter sits on Synology NAS and now I'd like to use some Soft player for my PC's. Of course I can use Winamp, Aimp or simple Windows Media Player - which are much better then messy Squeeze products, but I want the database of payed songs at my SqueezeCenter to be updated, I want to rate the songs etc… Therefore I'm looking for a good soft player for my SqueezeCenter.

When I run squeezeslave.exe, it quits straight away - because my SqueezeCenter does not sit on the same machine.
I need to add address of the server. But How?
No documentation about it here.

Thank anybody for the support.

[mr-br]

Have you tried giving it the ip address of your SBS server?

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/SqueezeSlave#Command_Line_Switches

Ironically I've just gone back to using Squeezeslave as it supports bit perfect output (unlike SqueezePlay).