[SlimDevices: Beginners] Basic "Newbie" Questions re:- SqueezeBox Operation

[radish]

thenoo;309650 Wrote: 
> 
> In order for the Squeezebox to access and play this music on my Hi-Fi
> speakers , must I have this SqueezeCenter running ?
> 
If you're playing locally stored files, then yes. The SB doesn't know
how to read things off your hard drive, it only knows how to talk to
SC. You don't have to have the web page up though, SC keeps running in
the background.

> 
> Why is it necessary for SB software to have to look in
> "127.0.0.1:9000/" when all my music is already there on my hard drive ,
> i.e. in my case in the path G:/Itunes Library.
> 
It's not, your browser (IE, Firefox, Safari, whatever) is. 

SB <---> SC <---> Browser

In your case you happen to be running SC and the browser on the same
machine, but it doesn't have to be so. When you click the link the
browser sends a request to SC (in this case on 127.0.0.1:9000) and
waits for it to respond, hence the message.

> 
> Does this mean that my music data has now been transferred to some Web
> address and can only be found there by SB ?
> Is this data now "somewhere on the Web" ?
> 
Yes and no. It hasn't been sent anywhere, it's still right where you
put it, but I guess you could say it's now on your very own private
corner of the web.


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