Softsqueeze is a music player for your PC that works with the Slimserver
software.
It complements the Squeezebox2, Squeezebox and Slimp3 hardware music
players developed by Slim Devices.
Softsqueeze supports synchronization
with hardware players and remote
streaming over the Internet
using ssh tunneling. It has been
developed in Java, allowing this useful application to work with
Windows
PCs, OS X and Linux systems.
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Version 2.0 includes (new
features in bold):
- Audio Playback
- Native playback of Flac,
MP3, WAV and AIFF audio.
- Support for Ogg Vorbis,
WMA and AAC by transcoding in the
Slimserver.
- Gapless playback for most
audio formats.
- Synchronization with
Squeezebox2, Squeezebox and Slimp3
(requires Java 1.5)
- Pause, volume control
and mute buttons.
- Supports Windows Direct Sound
on a Windows PC.
- Squeezebox2
Graphics Support
- Emulation of the new
320x32 graphic display.
- Full support for all
Squeezebox fonts.
- Spectrum Analyzer, VU
meters.
- Skins
- Slim Devices skin with
horizontal or vertical remotes.
- Excession and
Excession
Large skins.
- LCD skin, designed for
use on laptop computers.
- Quick link to slim
server web interface
- Window snapping
- Also supports headless
operation
- Music
search and playlist editor
- Emulation of Slim IR Remote
control
- Button auto repeat (for
example press and hold pause stop's
the player)
- Keyboard shortcuts
for
common remote control functions (uses the same keys as winamp and
xmms).
- Slim Protocol
- Supports Slim Server
version 6.0 upwards.
- Support for password
encrypted servers.
- Auto reconnection to
Slim Server when connection is lost.
- Built-in ssh tunneling
support for
remote connections.
- Slim server discovery.
- Installers
Alternative Players
Softsqueeze is unique because it emulates the new Squeezebox2 digital
music player. It uses the new TCP based slim protocol, this allows it
to be used across the Internet and through firewalls/NAT routers. It is
also cross-platform, running on Windows, OS X, Linux and Solars
computers.
These alternative software
players can be used to listen to your
music stored on your Slimserver using the older slimp3 UDP protocol:
- slimp3slave
is a slimp3 emulator for Unix (Linux/Solaris/etc) computers.
- Kslimp3
is a KDE
slimp3 emulator that works on Unix computers. This program integrates
into the KDE desktop.
- TripleFat
is a Java client that emulates a slimp3 display and remote control.
This does not play music.
- WinAMP (or other music
streaming client) can be used to listen to
streamed music from the slim server. Your playlist can be managed from
the slim server web page. One reason I wrote Softsqueeze was because I
did not like the long delay (caused by buffering) when using WinAMP
with the Slimserver.
Acknowledgments
- Slim devices,
especially
Dean Blackketter and Vidur Apparao.
- ej-technologies
for the install4j installer.
- Graham Scott for skin
development.
- The slim-discuss
community for feedback and enhancement ideas.
- Thanks to Peter van der
Landen for the Softsqueeze name, testing
and encouragement.
- Douglas S. J. De Couto for
the vfd display character set, copied
from TripleFat.
- Patches from Dolf Dijkstra,
Brain (canned), Vidur Apparao, Michel
Marti.
- Java
Layer MP3 decoder.
- JFlac
FLAC decoder.
- JSch
for SSH
tunnelling support.
- Tritonus
project for
additional Java sound libraries.
- Java FFT
routines by Bruce Miller at NIST.
- Ostermillerutils.
© Richard Titmuss
2004,2005
