I'm very happy with SlimServer (and my SqueezeBox), but have a suggestion for a 
possible future enhancement.

I run SlimServer on a relatively low power x86 machine running Gentoo Linux. 
Because of this, I keep it nice'd to -10 to prevent audio stuttering if I'm 
doing anything else on the server at the same time. This works very well, as 
child process inherit the increased priority.

However, while there is no audio playing having the server niced to -10 means 
that it's a bit CPU hungry when it could really be a bit fairer and run at a 
normal priority.

As SlimServer runs on a number of different architectures and people have their 
own requirements, this is probably a feature that would not sit well directly 
implemented in SlimServer. However, a method of hooking notifications to 
external scripts/programs probably would. My idea is as follows:

1. Have a 'hooks' folder within the SlimServer directory tree. This folder would 
normally be empty, but could contain scripts to hook into notifications from 
SlimServer.
2. Introduce a couple of hooks:
  * First streaming started
  * Last streaming stopped
(The reason this wouldn't be playing/stopped is there may be multiple players)
3. I could write scripts that received these notifications and did any re-nicing 
as appropriate.
4. Other hooks could be added for other things, I suppose.

If anyone needs clarification then just shout.