TivoSlim­server­Client

What is it?

TivoSlim­server­Client is a soft­ware appli­ca­tion that turns your network-enabled Tivo Series2 DVR into a stream­ing audio client for SlimServer.

TivoSlim­server­Client makes it easy to nav­i­gate your music col­lec­tion, and offers the added ben­e­fit of jukebox-like song queuing.

Features/Screenshots:

• Stream­ing: The most basic func­tion of the client is to play an mp3 stream on your Tivo. This fea­ture is greatly enhanced if your tele­vi­sion has decent speak­ers, or is con­nected to a home audio system.
• Brows­ing: The sec­ond most impor­tant fea­ture is enabling you to find music that you want to hear. TivoSlim­server­Client lets you browse by genre, artist or album. Unlike Tivo Desk­top, which presents your music library in long lists, TivoSlim­server­Client divides albums or artists alpha­bet­i­cally, allow­ing you to quickly nav­i­gate to the item you want.
  
• Playlists: Slim­Server sup­ports playlists, and will even import your iTunes playlists if you ask it nicely. TivoSlim­server­Client lets you browse and lis­ten to all the playlists in your Slim­Server library.
• Song Queue/Jukebox: As you browse your music library in TivoSlim­server­Client, it is easy to select songs to lis­ten to. You can choose to play a song imme­di­ately, add it to the end of the queue, or even add it to the top of the queue; it will play next.
  You can add whole albums at once, or even whole gen­res or all songs by an artist. And, of course, you can Play Now, Play Next, or Add to Queue.
• If you change your mind about a selec­tion, you can eas­ily remove it from the Song Queue. TivoSlim­server­Client allows you to delete queue items and change the order by mov­ing songs up or down.
• More screen­shots:
  

Mac users:

Down­load the dmg. It con­tains a crude app bun­dle to make life eas­ier for Mac users.

Double-click the dmg file to mount.

Drag TivoSlim­server­Client to your hard drive.

Unmount dmg.

Stand­alone users (com­mand line):

Down­load the app + hme jars version.

From the com­mand line, change to the TivoSlim­server­Client folder:

cd /path/to/TivoSlimserverClient

Type the fol­low­ing com­mand, and hit Enter:

./start.sh

You should see some out­put sim­i­lar to this:

HME SDK 1.4 (TiVo, Inc.)
LOG: added fac­tory
MDNS: http://127.0.0.1:49297/tivoslimserverclient/

Run to your Tivo to try it out!

Galleon users:

To use TivoSlim­server­Client with Galleon, down­load the jar ver­sion. Copy the jar into Galleon’s “hme” folder and add the fol­low­ing line to launcher.txt:

com.edmondcho.tivoslimserverclient.TivoSlimserverClient

Restart the Galleon service.

Source: Galleon FAQ

Change Log

0.1a

Ini­tial release

0.2a

made selec­tion bar wider for Choose Player

made generic “Art­work Not Avail­able” graphic

added Max­i­mum Bitrate preference

added song length to main info screen

made server sta­tus queries more efficient

fixed excep­tion that occurred when slim­server cli com­mand was prepend­ing player address at launch.

0.2.1a

com­pat­i­bilty with Slim Server 6.5

0.2.2a

fixed “play­ers count ?” crash

fixed dura­tion dis­play to sup­port hours and lead­ing zeroes

Tivo Remote Short­cuts help screen now scrollable

added dura­tion to Song Info screen

using generic art on Song Info and Album Info screens

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