-tm-;696825 Wrote:
>
> I currently have not found enough arguments to keep my Squeezeboxes.
> They require attention as most devices do. Attention for maintenance.
> Attention for user interaction. My attention is limited. I want to
> focus on music and nothing else in this context. Am I missing
> something? Thanks for your thoughts. (Note that these arguments might
> hold true for pure Mac environments only.)
>
Main reasons to use the Squeezebox concept to me are:
1. Possibility to have players in rooms where I don't have space for
external speakers and amplifiers.
2. Central display in the middle of the room that doesn't require the
TV to be turned on.
3. Open source solution with support for third party add-ons which
makes it possible for me to fix things if they don't work as I like.
A friend of mine decided to switch to AppleTV and seems happier than he
ever was with the Squeezebox, but he don't have any issues with always
having the TV powered on and he never got any Squeezebox for the
bedroom or kitchen, he just had a Classic for the living room. For
Spotify he is using his iPad and use AirPlay to send it to AppleTV,
works great but it seems to be a little hassle to have to turn on/off
AirPlay all the time when you also want to do other things with the
iPad. Feels a little bit like my living room worked 5 years ago before
I got my first Harmony IR remote and had one remote for each device.
For me it feels like the main arguments to keep Squeezebox would be if
you have a need for players in different kinds of rooms. If I only
wanted a single player in the living room I would probably at least
consider to primarily use an AppleTV instead of Squeezebox. Mixing
Apple stuff with other solutions tends to cause problems because of
their "closed" strategy that makes it hard for other software to
interact with theirs.
--
erland
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