[SlimDevices: SqueezeNetwork] Windows Media Player Streams Squeezenetwok Favorites

[Fleury]

Much as I appreciate all the hard work that went into Softsqueeze, it
has been very unreliable and quirky for me, with frequent dropouts,
frustrating hangs, and even a borderline system crash (it was sucking
up 98% of my CPU!). So I looked around for alternatives, and found a
thread or two about using Winamp as a slim stream player. This worked
well, and I could bookmark the stream for future reference etc. But
winamp may intimidate the novice user (read: most of our wives and
children) with its plethora of features and menu options, so I tried to
set up Windows Media Player to run a slim stream. There may be an easier
way, but here's how I got it to work:

Get Slimserver up and running. From your slimserver web interface
select a station and click play (I use MyPicks loaded with my SN
favorites - see my thread on this nifty feature - thanks again, Andy!).
Fire up WMP (version 10, which I recently went back to after a week of
cursing version 11). In WMP - File/Open URL...type in your Slimserver
URL, for most of us: 

http://localhost:9000/stream.mp3

Click OK/Play and the stream you selected should buffer and play. Now
you need to save the stream URL as a playlist with a distinctive name
(File/Save Now Playing List As...). To play the stream in future, start
WMP, click the drop down menu "Now Playing List" (right panel top of
WMP), select Open Playlist/From File, and voila there is your SN
favorites list. To make life even easier, paste the slimserver playlist
file directly into your Windows Media Player folder, now file/open or
right click/open and select your playlist file. Clunky, but it works!

Now if only I could figure out a way to synchronize the WMP OC feed
with my SB....


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Fleury
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