CavesOfTQLT Wrote: > Pat, let's say it's one of those fancy fanless motherboards, 0dB > powersupply, very quiet harddisk, and I've said all this can be hidden > away in a cupboard anyways, with just the screen and mouse available. > One in each room, running softsqueeze, and all the music is held on one > of these computers. Do I really need an actual hardware SqueezeBox? Looking at it like this? No, you don't. But that's a lot of hardware just for playing music. And you still give up the nice LCD display and remote control.
I probably wouldn't use SoftSqueeze, though. You could have a much better user interface using standard PC music manager software. The SoftSqueeze/SlimServer approach just gives you network control of the player, the ability to use the web interface, and the ability to synch it with another SB (though it doesn't work particularly well in SoftSqueeze). You also don't get much PC and monitor for $300, especially if you want to use it for general computing. I think a fair scenario might be if you had a couple kids, each of which you'd like to provide with a computer in their bedroom. I'd get each a computer with sound card, hooked up to whatever audio system they have. Share the files on a server somewhere on the network and let 'em use WinAMP or somesuch to play the music. No need for a Squeezebox. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=19342 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
