I've a neighbour who asked me about a Brennan JB7. It looks a nicely made unit and the ripping process looks a doddle but personally I always found browsing music on the Squeezebox to be a bit of a hassle. It's great if you know what you want to play but the web interface, or even better, iPeng is better for browsing.
He has a laptop and an external hard drive so could rip his music using that but probably wouldn't want a computer powered up all the time (a mac mini would probably work as a headless server but it's getting expensive then). That points me to two suggestions - an iPod Touch and docking station or a SB Touch The Touch looks particularly interesting since it's expandable. Rip on the laptop, copy to 32gb SD card or usb hard disc and use it as a standalone player. A few questions: 1) without a computer (but with a link to a wireless network) will the Touch a)play internet radio b)act as a server for other Touchs or SB Radios? 2) How 'snappy' is the interface when using the touch as the server? I ran a server on a QNAP NAS drive for a while and found the laggy response made it unusable. 3) Can I emulate a Touch in any way? Is Squeezecenter running the Touch skin in 7.4 essentially the same as the SBTouch UI? -- b33k34 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ b33k34's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10919 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69260 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
