Sorry for taking so long to answer but I was pretty busy this week, plus I didn't want to turn this conversation into "should I replace my SB or not", because it will entirely depend on wether I find a good replacement or not.
Now as to why I would change here are the reasons : As I said I now have a HTPC in the living room right next to my Squeezebox classic, and since this computer (i3 540 underclocked/undervolted + Radeon HD5450 + Low voltage DDR3) uses much less power than my main computer I'll run squeezebox server on this computer. Which means I'll have the server right next to the squeezebox, which seems pretty pointless to me : I could as well use Foobar2000 (or maybe xbmc) and get rid of the squeezebox. So that lets me with the Boom, which is the best alarm clock I've ever had but has always had pretty huge flaws for me : You can't crossfade when switching tracks manually, when you hit the "snooze" button while the volume is gradually increasing it goes all the way up before fading down, which never fails to wake my girlfriend up when she can sleep longer than me, there's still no native support for spotify, the alarm is unreliable when using web radios, I never managed to display exactly the info I wanted on the screen... I used to think "these are on the bug tracker, they'll get fixed eventually" but let's face it : Development is not what it used to be, especially for ip3k devices... I even *think* I read a dev saying that there would be no new features for ip3k, which is a shame since the boom is still being sold (at least here in France) and only about 2 years old. So all in all, I think I'm just disappointed that some bugs have been on the tracker for YEARS and will probably never get fixed, and I'd like to try a new toy :-P Problem is, there's very little devices that can compete with the squeezeboxes. Sonos looks good but doesn't have the good form factor (I need an alarm clock), and most other connected alarm clocks are really cheap. The only thing that might interest me right now is th Arnova web radio, but I'm affraid the LCD screen will be too bright at night (or you'll have to turn it off completely and you won't know what time it is) : http://www.archos.com/products/arnova/arn_webradiotv/index.html -- BlueScreenJunky ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlueScreenJunky's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22725 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84690 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
