garym;670404 Wrote: > yep, my pre-SB system was Foobar2000 on laptop w/USB HDD > S/PDIF > > Benchmark DAC I > stereo. I also looked at MediaMonkey for a bit (and > it was quite good), but liked the infinite flexibility of Foobar2000 > and its plugins. But it was the search to get my music storage and > computer away from the stereo, as well as far removed from any internal > soundcard issues (which are many!) that got me to SB products. Wasn't > even thinking about Synching players at the time, but that has now > become a critical factor as well.
Very similar to what I had , but in my case it was an stationary computer a long catv coax to my DAC. i was alo using foobar 2000, which brings up the other problem with a computer centric solution. it's top down you sit at the computer and pushing out music to your system. And you mentioned the soudquality, fiddling with asio for all and/or kernel streaming to have good soundquality ( without the kmixer messing it up ) this alos removed system sound from the output. I got bored with that and basically only used while I was using my computer and for years I did not have any conection to my stereo untill I got my first squeezebox. It instanly gave me the two things I lacked in my competer centric setup. * computer independent soundquality. * a bottom up solution where I pull music from my collection via the player UI I don't have to be near the computer hosting the music I did not have mine in the listening room even when I used it for music ( I can not have a noisy pc in the listening room bizarre idea ) this also leads to an architechture where multiroom is an natural extension and these player started to multiply. this worked rigth out the box, no fiddling and nerd solutions yet that came later ;) A later added a small not so power consuming server to the party ( headless no monitor or keyboard ) it just sits in a corner in another room. My current favorite UI is iPeng it brings a very nice UI where i miss very little. I sometimes use desktop software to genrate a playlist for later use with the squeezebox system. the web-UI i dont regard it a player that would be unfair, but as an admin interface to the server with some player like cabalilities. No the squeezebox system is not near what it could do alot of unfullfilled posibilties. If ever wanted to go back to a topdown solution again it would be an laptop + usb dac, the squeezebox is not the tool for that. Another thing that is special with squeezeboxserver is that by design it is NOT a media manager you can be assured that it never writes to files or move them or do anything to them. It just scan them so that they can be served to the players ( the whole collection can be read only ). The idea is that there is plenty of software out ther that does this much better, this probably includes Media Monkey :) and ripping CD or bying music has other solutions that logitech never could compete with -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91532 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
