The Local Player plugin provides local playback capability from the server computer.
Local Player installs a playback application (squeezelite) on the server computer which is automatically run by the server and which can be controlled via the web interface or other squeezebox control applications. It is intended to simplify the installation and configuration of the squeezelite by installing it via a plugin.
Squeezelite is a new headless (no user interface) software emulation of a squeezebox which supports high resolution playback, gapless, crossfade and most other squeezebox playback features. It was originally written for linux and has been discussed on the linux forum: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ux-(alsa-only). It now supports Windows and OSX too.
To install please look in the "Other 3rd party plugins" list on the LMS plugins page.
The plugin should install the relevant version of squeezelite for your server machine and then automatically start it. On linux it supports intel and arm machines. For arm you will need to visit the settings page to select the appropriate architecture (armv5te, armv6, armv6hf). You can select the audio output to use from the settings page.
In some cases linux users will need to add the server user to the audio group to allow squeezeplay access to the audio output device.
Please note the plugin download does not include all codecs. On linux use your normal distribution installation process to install the libraries given on the setting page. On windows/osx wav,aif and flac are supported by default. Other codecs are supported via the server transcoding.
Squeezelite binaries may also be downloaded direct from here: http://code.google.com/p/squeezelite/downloads/list if you want to run it on other machines. Note there are no controls other than the command line options - it is controlled from the server using your favourite control application or web interface.
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Local Player installs a playback application (squeezelite) on the server computer which is automatically run by the server and which can be controlled via the web interface or other squeezebox control applications. It is intended to simplify the installation and configuration of the squeezelite by installing it via a plugin.
Squeezelite is a new headless (no user interface) software emulation of a squeezebox which supports high resolution playback, gapless, crossfade and most other squeezebox playback features. It was originally written for linux and has been discussed on the linux forum: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...ux-(alsa-only). It now supports Windows and OSX too.
To install please look in the "Other 3rd party plugins" list on the LMS plugins page.
The plugin should install the relevant version of squeezelite for your server machine and then automatically start it. On linux it supports intel and arm machines. For arm you will need to visit the settings page to select the appropriate architecture (armv5te, armv6, armv6hf). You can select the audio output to use from the settings page.
In some cases linux users will need to add the server user to the audio group to allow squeezeplay access to the audio output device.
Please note the plugin download does not include all codecs. On linux use your normal distribution installation process to install the libraries given on the setting page. On windows/osx wav,aif and flac are supported by default. Other codecs are supported via the server transcoding.
Squeezelite binaries may also be downloaded direct from here: http://code.google.com/p/squeezelite/downloads/list if you want to run it on other machines. Note there are no controls other than the command line options - it is controlled from the server using your favourite control application or web interface.
Please try and post feedback here.