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SkweezyDs is now available as pre-beta code.

http://oss.linn.co.uk/trac/wiki/SkweezyDs

This allows SqueezeCenter and Squeezebox controllers (IR, Duet, Web) to operate and media serve the DS. Code appears stable, but requires further testing, especially in different setups and use-cases.

Audio is served to the DS in its native format (flac/wav/aiff/alac/mp3)
Local audio and Shoutcast (or any other mp3 streamed) radio, are supported

Please let me know how you get on

OMG, thats good news.

At the risk of being troublesome, has Linn evaluated if there are any sonic differences? If not, i would say that Kinsky will be quite redundant if this works as good as it does with the Squeezebox.

No sonic differences - it is only the control and media serving that is changed. The DS unit itself is operating as before

I'm sorry to hear that you have had to do this by yourself on your own spare time. But this is really great news! The SB3 is very intuitive for control via the display. And to have this interface with the sound from a Linn DS makes me very happy! I still don't have a DS, but it's only a matter of time. And then this will be my main control interface.

This application is also very helpful when it comes to "selling in" the DS players to our "no-tech" wives. Great stuff Rockfather! Tell your boss that this will drive DS sales and make them pay for your work! (And support it like a regular application...)

Splendid.
Will it be an enourmous task to get this into a NAS with linux core?
Although i will try in on a windows pc within a couple of days...

Hmmmm...does this also mean that iPeng (http://penguinlovesmusic.de/?page_id=27) will now work as an iPhone/iTouch controller?

Now THAT would be fantastic news!!!

Hello,

it dosn´t work on a Mac.
I have edit the ini:

# Initialisation file for SkweezyDS

<SqueezeCenter Port> 9000
<SqueezeBox MAC> 00:04:20:16:19:c3
<LinnDS Name> Main Room:Majik DS
<Ethernet Interface>
<Log Level> kAll

and run the py-script in the Terminal:

Mediaserver:~ thomas$ python /Users/thomas/Downloads/SkweezyDs/SkweezyDs.py
All : Logger started
Info : Reading SkweezyDs.ini configuration file
All : FAILED to read SkweezyDs.ini
All : Logger byebye

What have I done wrong?

Yours Thomas

Firstly the port should almost certainly be 9090. 9000 is used for the web interface, 9090 for the CLI. This can be checked on SqueezeCenter web page under

Settings->Plugins->Command Line Interface->Settings

This means exactly what it says - SkweezyDs either could not find, or failed to read the ini file. SkweezyDs expects the ini file to be in the folder from which it was started.

Try

Or alternatively copy the ini file to your current folder and try again

Please let me know how you get on - it has not been tested on a Mac yet

It works now, thank you very much.
I am now testing and hearing :-)

Yours Thomas