Using Squeezebox with a player other than Slimserver

[malone]

I often play my MP3s with Total Recorder because it offers more flexibility than Slimerver (eg skipping a certain amount of seconds forward or backward, and a wide range of editing functions)

I wonder whether there is any way of directing the output from Total Recorder, or from any other MP3 player for that matter, directly to my SqueezeBox rather than my computer's sound card?

Or does this question demonstrate my complete lack of understanding of what's going on?

[ceejay]

Sorry, Squeezebox absolutely needs a copy of slimserver to talk to.

You can use whatever player you like to send audio to your computer's audio out, and then use one of the various available kludges to catch that and send it though slimserver to the SB, if you really want to.

Or you could investigate one of the alternative player-controllers for slimserver, like Moose (see 3rd party board).

HTH

[funkstar]

Have a look at the WavInput plugin. It takes whatever you are playing on your sound card and routes it through SlimServer to your SqueezeBox.

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?p=205598

[Hercules]

You can skip forward in large steps in SqueezeCenter via the web interface by clicking on the required position in the playback progress bar

[malone]

Thanks for those ideas. I just been trying WaveInput which sounds the most productive direction, but I can't get it to work at all on my laptop with WinXP Pro SP2. It appears in all the Slimserver menus and says Audio 0 is playing but there is no sound from the Squeezebox...

[funkstar]

Could be that the sound card in your laptop doesn't support digital loopback.

I'm not an expert on the WavInput plugin, but i've heard this mentioned before.

[malone]

Yes - I think you may be right. I've just managed to get Wave Input working on another (desktop) computer with a much superior sound card. But it's very poor - lots of drop-outs. I'm still looking into it....