Squeezebox Duet: Wireless digital music player

[grandell]

Hey guys, looking for opinions/suggestions about digital music players, specifically the Logitech Squeezebox Duet
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Basically i'm lazy, and i want to be able to sit in bed and access my entire music collection and have it play through my stereo. which is exactly what this does!

The box plugs physically into your stereo, and wirelessly to your network/computers/NAS?, so has access to you're entire music collection, and the remote is like an ipod, which you use to scroll through and chose what you want to listen to

has anyone heard of these before? used this before? or know of any alternatives?
it's available through c1com for $465
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[Reaper_2000]

from what ive read they appear to be very impressive units .. ill see what i can find out for you over the weekend glen as i have a lot of hifi orientated mates who specialise in AV, some of the setups they have in their houses are amazing!!

[grandell]

ok, in case anyone cares, i got my Squeezebox Duet this morning, and have just finished setting it up


only one thing to say.... AWESOME!
even the box is fancy
easy as fuck to set up, plug it in, turn it on, download the software to run it, and you're done!
So now i can scroll through my entire music collection, complete with album covers etc, all in the palm of my hand, and listen to it through a decent stereo

[GecKo]

I'd be interested to know of anything that it doesn't do, and stuff that annoys you about it, haha.

[grandell]

only found 3 things i'd like changed so far...

1) seems a little quiet... but that's probably as much to do with my stereo, and using rca outs instead of digital
2) would be so much cooler if it could turn your stereo on and off too (but really, you can't expect it to do everything....)
3) haven't quite worked out how to set the screensaver to show flickr photostreams just yet (it is a standard feature though!)


i guess its only major drawback is that its purely for music. if you want something that will stream vids to your tv you're gonna need something else. having said that, for music, its great!

[DrRubber]

heh, just looking at this thinking about my logitech remote and then concluded that they should make remotes that also store music and then the fucker will turn off your stereo....and tv.....etc etc........heck may as well make it a cellphone too and just live with the fucker

[grandell]

if they included a 500gb hdd with the Squeezebox then i'd say it'd be perfect, but as it stands i think the next best thing will be to buy a cheap old pc, strip it down to bare basics, grab a copy of FreeNAS and a wireless card and run it as a network storage device in a cupboard or something

unfortunatly my IT knowledge extends about as fa as knowing that that should work in theory. no idea how to actually do it though

[Reaper_2000]

Originally Posted by grandell

if they included a 500gb hdd with the Squeezebox then i'd say it'd be perfect, but as it stands i think the next best thing will be to buy a cheap old pc, strip it down to bare basics, grab a copy of FreeNAS and a wireless card and run it as a network storage device in a cupboard or something

unfortunatly my IT knowledge extends about as fa as knowing that that should work in theory. no idea how to actually do it though

lol i already told u id set that up for you..

ps glen .. my PDA can do everything your squeezebox can do lol, just didnt want to rub it in when you were talking to me about it .. and with wifi + t3g i can turn my music on before i get home, or freak people out at home by randomly starting music playing!

[Haydz]

Just buy a Belkin Tunecast and plug it into the 3.5mm headphone jack of the computer/PDA/iPod. Won't get the range your thinking of but should get at least 30m inside a house.

[grandell]

Originally Posted by Reaper_2000

lol i already told u id set that up for you..

ps glen .. my PDA can do everything your squeezebox can do lol, just didnt want to rub it in when you were talking to me about it .. and with wifi + t3g i can turn my music on before i get home, or freak people out at home by randomly starting music playing!

yeah but how much did your pda cost and it has no hdd... plus you still need something to run it to the stereo
when i work out exactly what i want to do in terms of a NAS, i'll let you know though

Originally Posted by Haydz

Just buy a Belkin Tunecast and plug it into the 3.5mm headphone jack of the computer/PDA/iPod. Won't get the range your thinking of but should get at least 30m inside a house.

yeah that would work... but i'd rather run it from a remote than a computer

[Reaper_2000]

Originally Posted by grandell

yeah but how much did your pda cost and it has no hdd... plus you still need something to run it to the stereo
when i work out exactly what i want to do in terms of a NAS, i'll let you know though

my stereo is hooked up to my PC and lol your squeezebox doesnt have a HDD either

WiFi ftw !!!

[Dezigns]

TVersity + Xbox360

[VTAKYO]

Hmm, but having a harddrive inside the Squeezebox would sort of defeat the purpose of it? From what I gather it is just a client on the network.

[grandell]

yeah that's basically it. really the main feature is the remote...

as it is, its fine, as long as you leave your pc on. but by building a NAS i don't have to

[BWDOWN]

Originally Posted by Dezigns

TVersity + Xbox360

PSP + PS3 pwns all

All music, movies, tv shows etc in the palm of your hand. Best thing is it will do that anywhere in the world (wifi dependent of course) Only thing it wont do is turn off/on my PC haha