It was the summer of 2005. I had reached a point where I was running out of room to store CDs. I had about 1000 at the time. I also realized that I could buy a 400GB hard drive and encode my entire collection to FLAC and fit it there.
I remembered vaugely the SliMP3, and Googled it and found the Squeezebox 2. It had FLAC support. I asked my wife if I could buy it, a Kuro Box HG, and a 400GB hard drive for my birthday. She obliged. I then also had the fun of getting it all working together, which took a few weeks, then a few more months of ripping everything. Then I did it all again when I replaced my server with a mini-ITX VIA C7 mobo and mirrored 500GB hard drives (mostly after a crash of my original 400GB Kuro drive, which was luckily backed up!). I love that my SB2 is now 3 years old and I can take advantage of all the latest features of SqueezeCenter, and its firmware has been continually improved (I started with Firmware 15 after all.) We're going to be remodeling our kitchen and family room shortly, and I'm contemplating buying a Duet to run a dedicated kitchen system, or perhaps wire my ceiling mount speakers into my existing A/V receiver. So many choices. I'd also like a Boom for the bedroom but there's a limit to the money. I also want a flat panel TV mounted to the back of our living room fireplace, which backs up to our family room (it was built off of an old porch). And the CDs? Well, Jazzloft sleeves relieved the storage crunch, and they still live in the family room for tactile feedback. -- mrfantasy --Mike http://last.fm/user/mrfantasy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mrfantasy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53831 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
