Squeezebox Wireless Network Music Player - All Black

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Batteries Included: 0 Binding: Electronics Brand: Logitech Color: BLACK EAN: 5099206003460 Feature: Audio formats Is Fragile: 0 Label: Logitech Manufacturer: Logitech Model: SB3BB Publisher: Logitech Release Date: 2006-12-11 Special Features: nv: AC Power Adapter Supplied^Yes \| Audible Support^No \| Backlit Display^Yes \| Bookmarking Support^No \| Codec Support^FLAC Apple Lossless WMA Lossless AIFF WAV PCM MP3 AAC Ogg Vorbis MP2 MusePack WMA \| Colour LCD Screen^No \| Copyright Protection System^No \| Depth^8.0cm \| Distortion^Less than 0.01% typ: 0.003% \| Firmware Upgrade^Yes \| Folder Navigation^Yes \| Height^9.3cm \| ID3 Tag^Yes \| LCD Remote Control^No \| Linux OS Support^Yes \| Management Software Required^No \| Manufacturer Warranty^1 Year Studio: Logitech
Features Audio formats Lossless Formats (FLAC Apple Lossless WMA Lossless) bit-perfect CD audio streaming with reduced storage and bandwidth usage. Approximately 2:1 compression ratio Uncompressed formats (AIFF WAV PCM)
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Editorial Reviews: The Squeezebox from Logitech is an ingenious music system that lets you transmit digital music stored on your computer to your HiFi system using a wireless or cabled connection! The Squeezebox is easy to use and install, and gives you high quality sound without skips or lag. This system also displays song titles and the names of artists on its easy-to-read screen. You can even search for tracks by genre, artist or playlist, or simply listen to your music in random play mode. And with the Squeezebox, you can enjoy listening to your favourite Internet radio station, even when your computer is turned off.Connectivity: Ethernet port, S/PDIF, L/R audio output, headphones jackComes with remote control, batteries, power supply, RCA cableCompatible with Windows (2000, XP), Mac OS X (10.3 or later), Linux/Solaris (version 5.8.3 or later) 733 MHz processor or later512 MB RAM30 MB of available hard disk space Ethernet or wireless connection
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A nifty little gadget! Comment: This does exactly what it says on the box. Very simple to install and works brilliantly with my BT Home Hub2. Searching is very quick and the remote control interface is simple to master. Main reason for me getting this was to make all my songs available on my sound system without having to do any wiring. The unit doesn't look out of place next to my hifi/tv set up and has a good quality feel to it. Customer Rating: Summary: So good I now have 3 Comment: I originally bought 2 Squeezeboxes, about 2 years ago, and I liked them so much that I now have 3. Plus I've just ordered a Squeezebox Boom. There is only one down side, but it's quite a big one. To get the best out of your Squeezebox, you need to be running a music server application called SqueezeCenter. SqueezeCenter is designed to run on a PC or Mac, but if you are like me, you wont want to have to run your computer running every time you want to listen to your music collection. It is possible to connect your Squeezebox to a service on the internet called The Squeeze Network, and to be honest I have never tried this. Apparently though it does allow you to access internet radio and to upload mp3 files to play on your Squeezebox. I opted to run SqueezeCenter on a NAS device called a Qnap, which is designed to be able to run 24/7. It does an adequate job, but is not ideal. It can require some computing knowledge if you encounter problems. There is a good internet forum where you can often get help if you get stuck. http://forums.slimdevices.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18 There are also other NAS devices capable of running SqueezeCenter, many require a bit of hacking, but there is a lot of information about this on the forum. I think Logitec have missed a trick here. If they were to design a server to run SqueezeCenter then they would be onto a real winner, but they don't seem to want to do this. Anyway. That is the one drawback out of the way. The build quality of the Squeezebox is excellent. It's a very solid device, and I have never had any hardware problems with any of 3 Squeezeboxes. Sound quality is also very good, due to a good quality DAC. It is reckoned to be about equal to a midrange CD player. Functionality when connected to SqueezeCenter is also very good. I especially like being able to review and amend my playlist while listening to it. You can also add various plugins but again that may depend upon your computing abilities. Over all I love my Squeezeboxes, although they are perhaps not ideal for people who are not reasonably computer literate. Customer Rating: Summary: Good product, quite easy to use, good value Comment: Dear review readers, I have struggled to get one of these. Other internet vendors are unable to get stock from Logitech. The suggestion is that Logitech are producing the Boom in order to promote it heavily and keep letting vendors and their customers down so I was surprised when Amazon/Pimxania had any. Pix call it a Wireless Network Player although everyone else calls it the Classic. Not sure why. Logitech need to realise that setting stock delivery dates that they repeatedly fail to meet is annoying people. Plus why put all your eggs in a product which will never be hifi when the success of the range thus far has been a decent DAC which only appeals to nerds (like me.) Anyhoo, it has now arrived. Well packaged. I set it up in about 10 minutes, instructions still in bag up until the point where I had to determine the firewall settings. I am no IT genius but I got it connected to my hidden and encrypted wireless network after a few attempts and as I had already downloaded Squeezecentre and loaded up my entire 8 days worth of CD collection I was listening to music in a different part of my house within quater of an hour. I had bought it for summer evenings on the back patio/conservatory. I suppose thats next year now. My main hifi is in the dining room where it gets most use. I didnt want an Ipod/docking station (for the garden/conservatory) as I have fat fingers and felt this was the best alternative/use of new PC. I secretly fancy a sonus system but I am not currently wealthy enough. I bought an aego 2.1 active monitor set to go with the squeezebox which sound good. It will work well, and the display looks like it will be very visible, through red wine induced summer evenings. So far have struggled to get the range I need for the garden but I suspect with a little jiggling and moving of things that will be fine. Old house. Thick walls. Whilst I am familiarising its currently hooked up to my hifi in the dining room. I compared the sound quality with CD direct. Its quite close. The CD player is a 4/5 year old £300 NAD player and matching NAD amp through some nice speakers on iron stands. Nothing too special but hifi none the less. I can tell the difference but I have to say the squeezebox isnt bad on sound. Probably just a little thinner than the CD but barely noticable once youve adjusted the gain for what appears to be a slightly weaker line level from the Squeezebox. I suspect it has as much to do with my file format as the Squeezebox itself. For information I loaded my collection onto itunes (squeezecentre can be directed to the itunes directory easily) using the AAC encoder at 256kbs. I am still getting use to the controls to find the music I want. However, the shuffle feature is re-opening some wonderful familiar memories of music I forgot I loved. Wonderful little bit of kit. Really very special. Anybody on here who has down marked this due to finding it a bit difficult to set up shame on you. Dont buy things you dont understand unless you are prepared to have a fiddle, do a bit of research, or ask a youngster to help with. Find something less revealing about your technical inadequcies to moan about. Next gadget will be a external hard drive so I can turn my PC off and still use the squeezebox. But that can wait. Love it. D Customer Rating: Summary: Brilliant, but maybe upgrade the power supply Comment: I'll start by saying I think these things really are very good. But... When I got my first Squeezebox 3 I was slightly underwhelmed by the music quality. It was good, but it lacked a bit of sparkle when compared to the original CD (and that was with flac files). There was a lot of discussion on various Squeezebox forums about upgrading the power supply, so I gave that a try. All sorts of exotic and expensive solutions were recommended, but they didn't have any of that stuff down at Maplins. So I ended up buying a "Variable Voltage Switched Mode AC/CD Mains Adapter" for about £30. Boy, did that make a difference. Now I can't tell the difference between the Squeezebox & CDs when I switch my amp between the 2 different sources. Now I generally think that the hi-fi "business" of spending silly money on 6" lengths of wire is a bit "emperors new clothes", unless you have the hearing ability of a bat (or cat). So if I can hear a difference, there really is one. I guess it's because the new power supply can deliver 5 amps as opposed to the 2 amps of the original equipment. I'll add a proviso here - it's a year or 2 since I bought me Squeezeboxes and they may have improved the power supply since then. Check its amperage rating I guess. Apart from that, I endorse all the 5 star ratings here. It's great. It will make you realise how bad the tagging is on all your music files though. Get ready for a few evenings trying to get them all sorted! Customer Rating: Summary: The finest thing I have ever bought. Comment: Last.fm on this thing is amazing; personalised music radio station, it even crossfades the tracks. six stars. More Reviews