Rickenbacker;690239 Wrote: > I've got an 8 and a 13-year old, and I'm considering getting them each a > Squeezebox Radio. > Regards,
In my experience, the only barrier is the ability to read simple words. After that, the SqueezeBox are perfect for kids. My older son was interested very early on, but could not do it, he was able to use the SB Touch at 5.5 year old, the SB Radio at 6 year old, and now at 7.5 year old he has a SB Touch with crappy computer speakers in his bedroom and can set alarms and use the remote control. My younger one at 4.5 year old is not interested yet, but I'll get him started soon. The SB Radio is sligtly more difficult to use than the SB Touch for kids, the rotary dial and the smaller screen are less intuitive, but my son can do it now trivially. I got him a Touch because of that and also because it's more fun with the various visualisation, he like the spectrum analyser a lot. With the SB Touch, I can also upgrade him to real speakers later on, I don't think the SB Radio speaker will cut it for a teenager. It was a big gift, but it's his most used gift, he wakes up to Lady Gaga every day and plays it many times (please, please, can't he play something else for a change). Forget about audiobooks, he hardly liten to them. He is using his SB Touch way more than me... Now, the main issue is : who is going to manage the music. From experience and talking to my friend, it's the crucial part, as they won't be able to do it themselves, well maybe your 13 year old could do it . That's also why I got him the SB Touch, so that I don't have to manage two databases and two tagging strategies. But, some of my friends prefer a clean separation of their music and their kid's music. I'm quite rigourous in my tagging, which definitely helps the navigation, at youg age the navigation needs to be somewhat simple. Note that before the SB Touch, Mom showed him how to play CDs, which ended up with scratched, lost and stuck CDs (I had to dissasemble the hi-fi to remove stuck CDs). The SB Touch is so much better, as there no mechanical parts, so little than can go wrong with messy kids. Have fun... Jean -- jean2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jean2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33946 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93574 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
