[slim] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?

2005-12-21 Thread CavesOfTQLT
I have a SqueezeBox 2, and I'm about to order, right at this very minute, a SB3, but... this question keeps coming into my head. Why buy a SqueezeBox? A PC or some other type of system is needed to run SlimServer. Okay, but... You then need either a) Softsqueeze, or b) an actual hardware

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?

2005-12-21 Thread Jacob Potter
On 12/21/05, CavesOfTQLT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Discuss. Any help on this would be extremely grateful. In one word: interface. If all you want to do is pipe music from place to place, you could just get a really long cable; but that doesn't get you all the searching, browsing, and control

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?

2005-12-21 Thread Pat Farrell
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:04 -0800, CavesOfTQLT wrote: Why buy a SqueezeBox? Now assume a motherboard/mainboard that has an on-board digital co-ax or SP/DIF output; can't the Softsqueeze player output via this to an amplifier with digital in, so negating the need for an actual SqueezeBox?

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC?

2005-12-21 Thread Howard Darwen
Less noise would be my number one reason. No fans. - Original Message - From: CavesOfTQLT [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:04 AM Subject: [slim] Squeezebox Or Glorified PC? I have a SqueezeBox 2, and I'm about to order, right