I have had a squeezebox for many years, still have it in fact but it's in the drawer. I got an AppleTv at Christmas and haven't looked back. The device is not perfect but it's a damn sight more reliable than the sb2 it replaced. With this AppleTv I can not only listen to all my music but watch ripped movies, you tube, vimeo videos etc. The sound from it is excellent as is the sound from the sb2 but the thing that really annoyed me is the sb's reliability. You could be just sitting there and the machine just stops playing, or it skips to the next track or whatever, I don't think you could go for a few hours without it messing up. Every time there was a software update to correct the problems, new bugs were introduced, this is were the sb was let down the software was to buggy and for untechnical users. I could not recommend a sb to any of my untechnical friends for example. The AppleTv whilst not perfect has performed great, very few problems and most of those can be traced to human error. iTunes as has been said is not perfect but I rarely use iTunes except to add new content, it usually just sits there running in the dock. Btw as far a DRM is concerned I have never bought a music track from Apple, I prefer lossless and rip cd's into iTunes.
So it's really choice £100 for a device that plays all your music, videos etc. Has regular updates and Apple is not going anywhere soon. Or £250 for a device that just plays music and from what I can see the players future is in doubt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven Moore's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=104 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94223
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