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Logitech Squeezebox
I have to say, this is the best music player that I have ever owned!
It has 3 components:
2 hardware pieces;
the remote and the receiver
and 1 software piece that installs on any system of any O/S that can have a drive share.
In addition, you can get a full featured FREE smartphone app that emulates the remote and allows you to use your smartphone instead of the included remote (it needs wifi on the smartphone though to your home network - I use the Samsung Fascinate and FIOS wireless router). The remote also has volume control. You can have multiple receivers being controlled by the same system/remote (one for each stereo in your house if you want). Since all the connections are 802.11, you can be anywhere within range of your wireless home network and fully control your system.
The receiver is very small - like 6"x5"x1". The connection between the receiver to your stereo is either regular RCA or digital (fiber or coax).
All connections are either wired ethernet or 802.11a/b/g wireless.
It took about 10 minutes out of the box to get it working.
What it does:
It is an MP3 and other audio media player. It plays pretty much any format music you have. You store all of your music on the file share and it indexes them all. You use the remote which works similar to an iPod with the shuttle selector. You can select music based on genre, album name, song name, artist name, etc. You can create custom playlists to just play what you want.
The remote has a full color screen that displays the album art and also can display pictures and other stuff. It has a full section of "apps" which I have yet to investigate.
It also accesses online music services like Rhapsody and tons of other ones. In addition, it has the full complement of internet radio. It categorizes that further into local stations, which it finds based on your IP to know where you are and displays any local station that can be accessed through the Internet. Pretty much all stations in this area are on the list. So it is an FM radio as well.
I have not often found something new that is this good. I hate my huge 200 CD player and have wanted it out of my life for quite some time. Now I am burning all my CDs to MP3's and will soon store them all in a closet somewhere and take the 200CD player to the range.
The only negative that I can see is the software server piece needs to be on a computer running all the time (or at least while you are accessing music). Not a big deal since my computer is left on 24x7. But I use an external Buffalo 2tb drive for music storage which is standalone. If they built a server into the receiver piece, that could allow me to access my Buffalo drive share directly and eliminate the server piece. But I understand that this type of functionality would require a lot more support on their part and a lot of research to work with the multitude of different scenarios. Not to mention it would increase the price of the product. So it doesn't really bother me.
What are you waiting for? You need this NOW. So get on it people!
It has 3 components:
2 hardware pieces;
the remote and the receiver
and 1 software piece that installs on any system of any O/S that can have a drive share.
In addition, you can get a full featured FREE smartphone app that emulates the remote and allows you to use your smartphone instead of the included remote (it needs wifi on the smartphone though to your home network - I use the Samsung Fascinate and FIOS wireless router). The remote also has volume control. You can have multiple receivers being controlled by the same system/remote (one for each stereo in your house if you want). Since all the connections are 802.11, you can be anywhere within range of your wireless home network and fully control your system.
The receiver is very small - like 6"x5"x1". The connection between the receiver to your stereo is either regular RCA or digital (fiber or coax).
All connections are either wired ethernet or 802.11a/b/g wireless.
It took about 10 minutes out of the box to get it working.
What it does:
It is an MP3 and other audio media player. It plays pretty much any format music you have. You store all of your music on the file share and it indexes them all. You use the remote which works similar to an iPod with the shuttle selector. You can select music based on genre, album name, song name, artist name, etc. You can create custom playlists to just play what you want.
The remote has a full color screen that displays the album art and also can display pictures and other stuff. It has a full section of "apps" which I have yet to investigate.
It also accesses online music services like Rhapsody and tons of other ones. In addition, it has the full complement of internet radio. It categorizes that further into local stations, which it finds based on your IP to know where you are and displays any local station that can be accessed through the Internet. Pretty much all stations in this area are on the list. So it is an FM radio as well.
I have not often found something new that is this good. I hate my huge 200 CD player and have wanted it out of my life for quite some time. Now I am burning all my CDs to MP3's and will soon store them all in a closet somewhere and take the 200CD player to the range.
The only negative that I can see is the software server piece needs to be on a computer running all the time (or at least while you are accessing music). Not a big deal since my computer is left on 24x7. But I use an external Buffalo 2tb drive for music storage which is standalone. If they built a server into the receiver piece, that could allow me to access my Buffalo drive share directly and eliminate the server piece. But I understand that this type of functionality would require a lot more support on their part and a lot of research to work with the multitude of different scenarios. Not to mention it would increase the price of the product. So it doesn't really bother me.
What are you waiting for? You need this NOW. So get on it people!
