who has a squeezebox ??

[mapes]

Wow I agree you guy's are old. I thought I was the only Who fan still alive. Anyways Caddy thats the squeezebox radio

The Duet looks like this.


I have an extra receiver (the little box)downstairs in the wetbar. The Boom looks like



Like I said the older models still work. Originally the product was called slimp3 and then Logitech bought them and re-branded the slimp3 looks like this



I think the slimp3 can only play mp3s although I think the server will reencode ogg or whatever other format you have on the fly.

[Rand{CLR}]

So we know what it looks like. What does it do?

And don't say "play music." Why is it a special radio?

-Rand

[mapes]

Basically speaking think of them as endpoints for music that is streamed over the network. The smaller units connect to a house stereo and some units have built in speakers. The stream can go over wifi or cat5.

Where does the music stream originate? In the most basic form you run the squeezebox server (win/unix/osx) on a computer. You point it at your music and it will catalog your music either based on tags or directory structure.

Now you can select what music to play(artist, album, genre) and how to play it (playlist, random, shuffle, repeat) and what end point to play it on (in my case wetbar, family room, bedroom or link any combination of the three).

You can select stuff in a couple of ways. The server has a webpage or the wifi remote in the duet package also the Boom model you can use the slector knob and the very small LCD screen but, it difficult. From any of those access points you can control any of the player and they could be playing the same or different stream

Now in the slightly more complex method they have support for every music service out there plus podcasts and internet radio and even more. For basic internet radio it will work with the basic server. For the internet music services that require a userid and login you would need to setup an account on my squeezebox.com and on that website configure the music services. Once configured they show up iin the remote/web server.

for example every two weeks I play DnD with some friends. If I'm hosting that week usually someone in the group will say hey I've got a cool Pandora station. So I'll logon to the mysqueezebox.com site. Create another pandora entry and fill out that persons logon credentials. I then can pick up the wifi remote select pandora at the top level menu, slelect the pandora account I want and then select the pandora station and then pipe it to whatever squeezebox player (or all three) I want. Presto...

[mapes]

Heres a list of supportted music services (this list is over a year old)
Known Services:


Classical.com
Deezer
Last.fm Audioscrobbler
Last.fm Radio
Live Music Archive
Deadheads paradise
Live365
Mediafly
MP3Tunes music locker
MusicIP
Napster
Pandora
RadioIO
RadioTime
Rhapsody
Shoutcast
Sirius / XM
Slacker
tunesBag



Alien BBC
BBC iPlayer
Last.fm (alternative provider)
Magnatune
NPR Radio
Public Radio Fan
RadioFeeds UK & Ireland
SeeqPod
XM Radio (now Sirius?)


DI.fm (Digitally Imported) 52 stations
BBC (not all streams supported outside of UK)
ShoutCast 27,000 streams



(Streaming Services with MULTIPLE stream stations, preloaded on server menu with RadioTime free account: 1.FM 38 stations 181.FM 56 stations 1Club 70 stations .977 FM 11 stations Got Radio 48 stations Yahoo! Radio / CBS Radio 300 stations ??and others)
Also free, but additional services (beyond the free part) exist for a paid membership:


Sky.FM (40 stations)
SomaFM (14 stations)


Amazon CD store is a plugin that comes with SC, but isn't a music service, its a way to let you buy the CD of whatever you're listening to.
MP3tunes/tunesBag music locker services requires that you upload your own music files.
MusicIP and iTunes are not music services.

[{CLR} ObiTroy]

this Thread Keeps Going In And Out And In And Out.....

Can We Stick To Cain's Question...

Lmao!

[drunken_chef]

lol, remember the who? I saw the who several times.