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

[thenoo]

radish;309657 Wrote: 
> 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.
> 
> O.K. That answered my first question . Thanks for that and also for the
> extremely prompt reply.
> 
> It's not, your browser (IE, Firefox, Safari, whatever) is. 
> 
> SB <---> SC <---> Browser
> 
> I'm not certain I understand fully this answer - I do accept , however
> , that , in order to access my music , I have to go along the path
> 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. 
> 
> That is something I didn't realise. Thanks again.
> 
> 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.
> 
> O.K.
> 
> 
> 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.

I'll try and think of it like that and see if it helps.


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