V3: client / Server Play audio default on server?

[lar282]

Hi
Ok trying to switch the other machine to V3 now and that one has a touchscreen laptop acting as a client. HOW do I tell xlobby to play music on the server zone when I use a full XL V3 as a client. Now it plays the music on my client not the server. I never want to have music playing on my client, so can I change this ?
I do not even have a zone skin page in my skin!

Found another one:
How do I load a playlist from a client that will play the music on the server?
Even If I set zone to 2 and then load playlist it plays on client.

//Lasse

[billberet]

are you set up with mimic mode.
on mimic mode, you can just open up the music and play.
my wireless Q1 client connects with mimic mode so every click i do on the client happens on the server.
just open up the zones and choose the zone you want to work in, then choose music to play.
if your server is set up correctly, the zone will play in the correct room.

your music will only play on the client if you choose that zone to play.
example
if your server has 3 zones (1,2,3)
and your client has one default zone (4)
when you go into mimic mode, on the control page, you will have access to 4 zones (1,2,3,4)
so if you don't want to play on the client, just ignore zone 4

**if you don't have a zone skin, copy the default control page, this will give you your zones**
it's alot to make from scratch, no need to invent the wheel.

currently the only drawback is you have to use the volume control of the 'control' page
instead of the master volume on all the pages, that volume is for the default zone only.

wes said he would look into making the volumes control whatever the active zone is. but i don't know how far that is on the list of ta-do's

[lar282]

i have mimic mode

I have no zone control screens

when I press play on the client it plays on the client UNLESS I execute an event set zone 2, but I do not want that.......

//Lasse

[billberet]

you have to choose the zone if you want to direct the music there.
if you are using V3 then you have the default skin control page.
just copy that and all the events associated to it.

unless i'm missing the whole point?

remember in mimic mode, it's just like being on the server pressing the buttons.
so the screens and events you have on the client have to be on the server as well.

[samsonlov]

Hi lar282,

If I understand your question, maybe this will help:

On the client, in F2 (after connecting to the server) check to make sure the server's audio zones appear under the "Audio" tab as "Internal Audio Zones".
If you are properly connected to the server, you should see "default" followed by the names of the audio zones on the server.
You can now play music on the server from the client.

Once you can see the server's audio zones in setup, you can use a simple event to "cycle" through the available zones.
(Create a button that tells you what zone you are controlling, and also acts as a "step through the available zones" event.)

The button text can be something like "Current Zone: %zone>current%", and the event you assign to it is "music:zone next"
Now put that button on any screen where you're controlling audio or getting audio feedback like "nowplaying info", and the controls and info will correspond to whatever is on "%zone>current%"

Here's my typical setup:
Movies and music stored on the server.
Server has 4 audio "zones" that feed distributed audio system and "telephone music on hold."
4 "Client machines" each play movies and music locally, and have the ability to output music from any of the server's 4 audio zones.
The server's 4 audio zones (I call use them as streams: "Mom's", "Dad's", "Kid's", and "Bkgnd") all appear on each of the clients in the system.
I use something similar to the suggested button above to indicate which "zone/stream" is being controlled.
One of the best things about the set-up is that XLobby DOES NOT need separate screens/buttons for each audio zone!
When playing music on the "Local" zone, everything happens locally; if a "server zone" is selected all the commands get sent to the server automatically.
If you are in front of the client, it looks like everything is happening on the client (good for waf), but the client is actually sending "server commands"
The result is that the client is always updated in real-time, and the server doesn't have to have the same pages as the client.
In-fact, the server runs 1024x768 touch-screens on VGA, while the clients all run 1280x720 HDTVs through a matrix switcher on component.
Not sure if your hardware can run a "full/fat" V3, but if it can, you'll never want to go back to "static" screens that need "refresh" commands and never really give you real-time updates.
Not sure how this applies to playing movies on the server from a client since I don't have any reason to even try, but for audio it rocks!