A year removed from the official end of the line for Squeezebox, and at least in my case several years past when I considered it a dead product as far as Logitech was concerned, Squeezebox remains a huge part of my daily life. I have *11* "in production" squeezeboxes, with a few more in reserve.
Typical weekday: * First thing in the morning, reach over to the SB Touch (controlling an SB Touch across the room) and queue up Staff Picks->Ben's Picks->Podcasts->NPR News Hourly Summary. Listen to the 5 minute news cast to hear about the latest Washington D.C. buffoonery. * While making dinner, use Kitchen SB Touch (controlling an SB Classic in the other room) to queue up audio entertainment. Radio Paradise gets the most airplay during dinner prep. I also am a heavy user of Local Music->New Music at this time in the day. Not sure what I'd do without the chronological album sort that menu item provides. * At dinner, play something appropriate for the meal from my local collection. For example, Calexico is the Official Band of Taco Tuesday(TM). Emiliana Torrini is half-italian, so she works great for pizza and pasta (and, if I ever cook Icelandic, she'd get the occasional nod over Bjork and Sigur Rios). On soup night I can't think of anything better than The National, because so good. but so sad. Typical Saturday: * Saturday is waffle day ( http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?39864-Anyone-with-a-Waffles-recipe&p=247602&viewfull=1#post247602 ). Depending on mood, stream either TSF Jazz from Paris or NPR Weekend Edition (pro tip: It's pledge week for your NPR affiliate? Go find one from a different part of the U.S. by browsing the Internet Radio menu. No more pledge week!) * Play some table tennis during the day to anyone who dares take on my crazy ninja ping-pong skills. Table tennis playing is best accompanied by the "mega mix" Local Music->Random Mix->Song Mix. * Saturday night my daughters launch a dance party in their room using the SB Boom. Downstairs, I play prankster and, using either the smartphone app or the web browser, keep pushing "Bangarang" by Skrillex ( https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox) on to their playlist, replacing Kelly Clarkson. This goes over poorly, so I go easy and don't do it more than 10 times. Typical Sunday: * Drink tea to relieve the cobwebs caused by excessive Skrillex playing, listen to the current Staff Picks->Ben's Picks->Podcasts->Wait Wait Don't Tell Me * Oh boy, the house is a huge mess. Sync up the first floor with the second floor and play something awesome, loudly, from the local library. Lately: Silversun Pickups, Girl Talk ( not safe for work, but highly recommended: http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/All+Day/5235582), Alt-J, Dragonette. There is no existing product on the market that can deliver that level of aural awesomeness. Not even the vaunted Sonos can give me the whole house control that my existing Squeezebox setup does, largely because of the prominent use of SB Touches as tabletop controllers through the house. Or, to put it a different way, I can only control everything through my smartphone or tablet if I a) can remember where I put the *!@#! thing, and b) if I can take it from the steely grip of one of my daughters. Squeezebox in its role as an audio unitasker actually has a native UI, which for all of the other plusses of the ecosystem is THE differentiator for me. Squeezebox is dead. Long live Squeezebox! cheers, #!/ben Basement: 2x SBRadio in table-tennis/billiards room. Synced and configured to do L channel through one and R channel through the other. Controlled with an SB Touch in a more accessible spot. First Floor: SBClassic into an A+B Stereo Denon Receiver. A speakers are in living room, B speakers in Kitchen. Kitchen counter has an SB Touch which functions as a controller. Second Floor: Boom in the kids room, Boom in the guest room. Master bedroom/bath SB Touch hooked up to A+B Stereo NAD Receiver. A speakers in bedroom, B speakers in bathroom. SB Touch on my nightstand to control it, SB Radio on the other nightstand. Bonus: floating SB Radio with Battery. Mostly used on the back deck. Former Logitech Developer: Squeezeplay/SqueezeOS/SqueezeboxController/SqueezeCenter Community Developer: Nokia770Skin (r.i.p.) http://www.last.fm/user/bklaas/ 'KHAAAN!' (http://khaaan.com/)...'BUNNIES!' (http://bettychuenglishangora.com/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bklaas's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99919 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
