dj_ek wrote:
> I have set it up [Silverjuke client/server] already
> and it "works" fairly well, but it's quite finicky. [...]
Silverjuke's music library was never meant to be used from several instances/computers at the same time; it is a little wonder that it works at all. However, we will check, if we cannot make this an "official" feature.
> Related to this was an issue about setting up the
> "settings" file and having it replicate
> on all the "client" machines. I
> remember reading somewhere on here that the
> settings for silverjuke were stored in the
> registry of the machine their running on. Does
> this mean that when I run silverjuke on the
> client machine, it's creating a settings file in
> the registry?
Yes. However, you can use a .ini file instead, either with the command line parameter or just by creating a file named in Silverjuke's application directory. However, again, these .ini file are not meant to be used by different people -- while sharing the database should be possible (see above) this is not good idea for the .ini file as there are user-defined settings (imaging the volume...) saved in.
> Or is there some way I could
> create a "master .ini" file to hold all
> the settings and replicate them on all the
> clients?
You can use a mysettings.ini as a template and copy them to all clients (eg. using a script), but this will overwrite all user settings.
Currently we are working on some network support features - I can't give you any details at the moment, but I can tell you that in one of the next updates all paths to music sources will be saved directly in the database. This should making the need to share any .ini or registry settings obsolete
> I was reading a little about the
> "--instance" switch [...]
For you situation, --instance does (more or less) exactly the same than --ini. The instance command does the opposite of using a client/server system: It allows running multiple instances of Silverjuke on the same computer.
> I think the most pertinent thing I want to be able
> to do is share the settings among all the
> machines [...]
As mentioned above, some user-independent settings will go from the ini/registry to the database.
Erik, thank you for your ideas,
Best regards,
Your Silverjuke TeamStatistics: Posted by Service-Team — 24. Jan 06, 02:35
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