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Networks and Remotes => Media Network => Topic started by: Mr. Tuesdays on December 04, 2011, 09:37:31 pm

Title: Controling the Squeezebox Touch
Post by: Mr. Tuesdays on December 04, 2011, 09:37:31 pm
I've been reading the Squeezbox threads here and have not found a cure for my Squeezebox blues.  Maybe someone can help.
Here's the hardware involved:
The Software:
My hope was to have the Squeezebox Touch be a stand alone player with a USB HDD plugged into it that could be controlled by JRiver.  That did not work out.  :(
So the Logitech server is running on the desktop computer where the music files are. The Squeezebox is connected to that server via ethernet.  MC16 on the laptop controls the Logitech server as a Zone, the Logitech server then controls the Squeezebox.  Round-about, but it works, sort of. MC16->SB server software->SB touch.

The main problem is that tracks will not advance.  While controlling with MC16 to get to the next track I have to double click it or use the Next button.  Tracks won't play one after the other. 

Anyone have any idea why the the tracks don't play one after the other?  I know this is an odd setup and I'm not crazy about it, but it almost works. It seems that the SB touch can't be controlled directly via DLNA, thus this crazy routing from laptop to desktop to SB Touch.  I don't want to have the music files on the laptop, that's the reason for running the server on the desktop.

Any help or pointing me in the right direction will be much appreciated, thanks!
Title: Re: Controling the Squeezebox Touch
Post by: MrC on December 04, 2011, 09:56:27 pm
SBS 7.7 DLNA is focused only on Revue hardware, and may not work correctly with non-Revue products.  There is no attention being paid to non-Revue.

I'm using Whitebear media server, and use MC on my Macbook (in a Parallels VM) connected via Library Server to my Desktop MC system (where tracks reside, and SBS runs).

Connected to my desktop MC Library, I simply set the zone to one of my SBs and initiate track playback just as if on the desktop MC system.

I posted re: Whitebear and SBS last night - have you had a chance to see that thread?

Also, does the SB playlist actually contain more than 1 track?
Title: Re: Controling the Squeezebox Touch
Post by: vagskal on December 05, 2011, 12:37:37 am
Check that Repeat is not activated in MC (or LMS).
Title: Re: Controling the Squeezebox Touch
Post by: MrC on December 05, 2011, 12:45:52 am
Quote from: vagskal on December 05, 2011, 12:37:37 am
Check that Repeat is not activated in MC (or LMS).

Ah, that's right... you had the same issue.
Title: Re: Controling the Squeezebox Touch
Post by: Mr. Tuesdays on December 05, 2011, 08:41:47 am
Thanks guys, I'll check into what you've mentioned.

I'm not using a playlist per se, just whatever files are in Now Playing won't advance.  Similar to previous versions of MC controlling another instance of MC on a remote computer.  If the renderer were not in Theater Mode, the tracks would not advance.
Having read about Whitebear I'm still not sure what it does. Does it run along side SB server, or take its place?