Squeezebox Controller SD Card Slot

[Dogberry2]

I don't see an SD card slot in my controller. At the base, between the charging posts, there is an indendation that looks about the right size, but it's covered up. What am I missing?

[kidstypike]

I don't see an SD card slot in my controller. At the base, between the charging posts, there is an indendation that looks about the right size, but it's covered up. What am I missing?

The SD card slot is inside the controller, just above the battery.

kidstypike

[jmschnur]

So what is the card for?

Joel

[funkstar]

So what is the card for?

Joel

So you didn't bother reading the thread then?

In brief:
- You can store large font files for non-European languages (some are far larger than the internal memory)
- Collecting of log files
- manual forced updating of the firmware

sheesh! it's not a long thread!

[jmschnur]

I had hoped there was more than that.
Joel

[mherger]

> I had hoped there was more than that.

what more did you expect?

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Michael

[bpa]

You can store your own applications on it and so make the SBC do whatever you want.

I had a version of squeezeslave on the card so SBC could play audio a year ago.

[funkstar]

I had hoped there was more than that.
Joel

The SBC is efectively a tiny little Linux computer so you could write software or plugins that run from the SD card and could bo virtually anything. Patches welcome

[Howard Passman]

You can store your own applications on it and so make the SBC do whatever you want.

I had a version of squeezeslave on the card so SBC could play audio a year ago.

....and play them when you are out of wireless range? Could you make it one of your music folders or another server?

Howard

[bpa]

squeezeslave is a "C" version of Softsqueeze with no UI. It meant SBC behaved like a PC - the SBc UI had to connect to the player to play normal SC audio.

I used "aplay" to play audio files stored on the card - the problem is not the playing the files but the effort required to develop a UI to select/play/stop/ffw/rew etc either as a separate boot (i.e. instead of SqueezePlay) or as an applet. It is not feature I need so I haven't bothered doing anything else.