garym;570794 Wrote: > http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.5 edit: note that all > versions of squeezeplay are beta. but it is pretty stable. I run the > 7.5 version for windows. > > once installed, select "choose player" from the menu, and choose > squeezeplay as the player. By the way, you can also choose any other SB > player here and simply use SqueezePlay as a CONTROLLER for the other > player. This is how I mostly use it (controlling other players from my > laptop). There are a few limitations (synching doesn't work so well > with hardware players, I recall that maybe pandora doesn't work with > squeezeplay (only works with hardware SB players), etc. > > None of my business of course, but it is hard to believe your PC sound > system would actually be better than simply using a TOUCH as the > player. A lot of competent audio people believe that the TOUCH and its > DAC is better than soundcards/dacs costing many, many times more. Plus, > with a hardware SB player you know you are getting bit perfect output. > Windows has a nasty habit of doing all sorts of odd things to your > files (upsampling to 48 from 44.1, etc.) You can work around all this, > but why bother when for $300 you can get the music player OUTSIDE of > the noisy computer environment, have it be bit perfect playblack, etc.
Thanks for info on the download. As far as the question about whether a Touch would work as well, I don't really know. And I'm don't understand exactly how a Touch could be used in my home office (where the computer resides). I'm pretty sure the DAC in the Touch is better than my sound card, which is nothing special. But I do have it attached to the Axiom "Audiobytes" computer audio system (with the EPZero subwoofer): http://www.axiomaudio.com/audiobytecomputerspeakers.html I have a SB Radio and I recently bought a Boom because I wasn't happy with the audio from the radio. IMHO, and without ANY technical knowledge to back it up, the sound from the Audiobyte system is pretty obviously better than the Boom, at least to my ear. I'm not sure whether I could hook up a Touch to the Audiobyte system. If that would work, then I should be able to see a further improvement (over the Boom) since the Touch would be replacing my (crappy) sound card?? I've never seen a Touch and I don't understand how it could connect to the Audiobyte amplifer/speakers. Right now there is just a simple line from the computer sound out to the input on the AB amp. Would a Touch work? If so, then I'd be happy to send the Boom back, use the radio as an alarm clock and portable device. At some point I'd like to get SB streaming to my main entertainment system and to an as-yet-unbuilt secondary system in the bedroom. My understanding is a Touch could/would control multiple devices, but I'm just still not clear on what's needed to get the SBS stream into external devices like an AV receiver, or in case of my computer--the Audiobyte amp/speaker system. Sorry for the basic level of discussion, but that's where I'm at at this point. -- Porschefan ---------------------------- Stephen Porter Albuquerque, NM (new home) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Porschefan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39130 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81377 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
