Lunch wrote, "... I use Media Server to access my MP3's from various clients scattered around my house. Should I be able to connect a handheld (in this case a Creative Nomad 3) to one of the client machines, and queue tracks to be transferred to the handheld, or is this only possible from the server machine (i.e. the machine where the MP3's actually sit ..."
It is not clear whether your requirement is to:
1- hear the songs you want throughout your house, in which case streaming from Media Server would be adequate
or
2- Transfer a file to you Nomad, so you could take the file elsewhere and play independently of JRiver's Media Center.JimH responded to requirement 2, with a 'legalese answer' about the propriety of such things .. i.e. a physical 'transfer' of a file is a copy of the file.
I doubt that JimH views a real time stream of a file, from one computer you own to another computer you own, as having any such 'legalese' concerns .. else there would not be the existing Media Server module???
I am only interested in requirement 1, i.e. streaming in one's home.
Steve G, so to get back on track, and since you seem to be 'the man' for handhelds:
1- Does it make sense to leverage JRiver's already written Media Server software to run on a Microsoft's Personal PC 2003 handheld environment?
2- Doesn't Microsoft's current handheld 'Windows' OS use most of the APIs, etc, that desktop Windows already uses?
My thinking is that if this was not too much of an effort, committing to support the handheld Windows OS would give the most leverage for JRiver's already in place technology for playing media anyplace in a house, including multiple wireless streams. Sheeeesh ... with wireless you could even be in your backyard or in your car in driveway and have access to you Media Center files and organization.
Could you have this is place for next Monday? Dell has a special for their wireless Axim for only $299 ... ;-) lol.
Keep up your good work on handhelds. Thanks.