Bug #415

Feature Request: Squeezecenter

Added by rsay almost 15 years ago. Updated about 13 years ago.

Status:Closed Start date:
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:jams % Done:

100%
Category:- Spent time: -
Target version:-

Description

I'd like to see Squeezecenter added as an installation option to R6.

I think the addition of squeezecenter would be beneficial because this perl program is a nice complement to mythtv and provides a media server for Logitech hardware such as Squeezebox, Duet and Boom. It peacefully coexists with mythtv and can utilize the /myth/music directory to serve music over the network.

Squeezecenter can be found at:[[http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/support/download-squeezecenter.html|logitechsqueezebox.com]]

I couldn't find a specific list of the dependencies but they provide .debs and .rpms that would contain the appropriate information at the website listed above.

Concerns: I'm not sure if the licensing allows inclusion in the linHES repository. (Actually I'm not familiar enough with Arch to even know if their software would be in a repository per se or if the repository would simply contain a program that would dowload and install the tar.gz from logitech's server.) This program has always been very easy to install after a knoppmyth upgrade via the debian/ubuntu .deb file. From looking at the arch linux forums, installation appears like it can be quite complicated for an end user under arch. [[http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45988|Arch Forum Post]]

Thanks for considering.

squeezeboxserver.tar.gz (1.8 kB) admin, 11/01/2009 08:55 pm

etc-sv-squeezeboxserver-run (221 Bytes) Golffies, 02/07/2011 03:13 am

History

Updated by rsay over 14 years ago

I found a user submitted PKGBUILD on the AUR that seems to be working on my linhes 6.01 installation:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31569

I also found the licensing information on wikipedia:

"The Squeezebox Server (formerly SlimServer and SqueezeCenter) is a streaming audio server supported by Logitech (formerly Slim Devices), developed in particular to support their range of digital audio receivers. It is open source software.

Squeezebox Server is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License."

Updated by jams about 14 years ago

  • Assignee set to jams
  • Status changed from New to In Progress

Updated by jams about 14 years ago

  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed

Applied in changeset commit:"755a2ed57977bac0ccd50584a9c51b02499eef70".

Hi guys,

SqueezeCenter changed its name to SqueezeBoxServer, and is now at version 7.5.3.

I opened a thread in the forum, about installing that up-to-date version and telling runit about that new service to be supervised. http://linhes.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21992 Integration with runit was far from obvious to me, so might it be for other users. Thanks to support from tjc and a few others, it works. The run script is attached.

An update of the package to a more recent version would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Perl source script and firmware are available as a tarball on Logitech's site: http://www.mysqueezebox.com/download

BTW, the current package (7.4.1-1) failed to configure squeezeboxserver as a service under runit on my LinHES 6.03.00 (LinHES-system 1.1-32).

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