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Squeezebox Wireless Network Music Player - All Black
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Product Description
Logitechs' Squeezebox is a fantastic network music player that transmits all the digital music stored on your PC to your stereo - through Wi-Fi or cables! Easy to set up and use this powerful well-thought device produces high-quality audio without any skipping or delay. Its large elegant display shows track titles artists and menus: you can browse by genre artist or playlist or randomly mix your music. The Squeezebox also gives you access to a practically limitless number of Internet radios even when your PC is switched off.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3880 in Consumer Electronics
- Brand: Logitech
- Model: SB3BB
- Released on: 2006-12-11
- Dimensions: .39" h x .39" w x .39" l, 3.55 pounds
Features
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Editorial Reviews
Manufacturer's Review
The Logitech® Squeezebox™ is a fantastic music player that transmits all the digital music stored on your PC to your stereo – through Wi-Fi or cables!
Easy to set up and use, this powerful, well-thought device produces high-quality audio, without any skipping or delay.
The Logitech® Squeezebox™ also gives you access to a practically limitless number of Internet radio stations, even when your PC is switched off. It works with PC, Mac and Linux, and supports compressed and uncompressed music files.
SlimServer 6.5 powers the Squeezebox network music player and is the best software to stream your music. It supports MP3, AAC, WMA, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and more. SlimServer 6.5 is supported by an international team of developers, and is released under the Open Source GPL license, and is currently available for the following platforms:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Mac OS X 10.3 - 10.4
Debian/Ubuntu,Linux RPMSetup Overview
First, collect your digitized music into one place on your computer. You can put all the files in a single directory, or create a series of subdirectories. The software you use to ‘rip’ your CDs, such as iTunes, may already do this and organize your music files by album or by artist.Next, download and install the latest version of the SlimServer software to the same computer as your music collection.
If you are hard wiring your Logitech® Squeezebox™ connect it with an ethernet cable to your hub or switch.
Connect the power supply to the Logitech® Squeezebox™, you can leave it plugged in at all times. When not in use, it enters standby mode and powers down the display.
If you are connecting your Logitech® Squeezebox™ via WiFi then power it up, connect to your WiFi network, the Logitech® Squeezebox™ supports WEP and WPA encryption.
To search for Albums, Artists, or Songs use the number buttons on the remote to enter letters, just like entering text on a mobile phone.
Technical Information
- High fidelity 24-bit Burr-Brown™ DAC
- Digital optical, coaxial, and analog connectors
- Plays MP3, AAC, WMA, Ogg, FLAC, Apple Lossless, WMA Lossless and WAV music files
- Connect to SqueezeNetwork™ for access to Internet radio and music services, including MP3 Tunes, Radio Guide, Live 365, radio and Shoutcast.
- Connects to SlimServer™ software for access to music libraries on local computers
- Built-in 802.11g Wi-Fi and Ethernet port
- On -screen clock with 7-day alarm
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Customer Reviews
The best device for streaming audio
I ordered the squeezebox with some trepidation. I have previously owned the Philips Streamium (clunky software, and not fully Vista-compatible) and the Logitech Wireless DJ (looks great but really isn't a finished product) and neither really lived up to expectations. Squeezebox, however, is different.
As other reviewers have noted, the Squeezebox (it's now a logitech product and will come with a Logitech logo on it - rather than the SlimDevices logo shown in the pictures on this page) has the 'finished product' feel that the others lack.
Setup was really straightforward. First you download SlimServer from the web (which is fully Vista compatible) and it searches your hard drive for any music files. It indexes them in the same way as I-tunes automatically. The interface is web-driven and worked fine for me in IE7, Firefox 2 and Opera 9. Next you connect Squeezebox to your router (use an ethernet cable) and key in your wireless network settings. Squeezebox accepts WEP, WPA and WPA-2, which is much better than the Roku Soundbridge (for example). You use your remote control to enter the WPA key and you're away.
In use, Squeezebox is fast and straightforward. There are basically two separate programs in the firmware. One is the SlimServer, which you can use to play your music collection (it supports nearly all file formats), or to browse internet radio. You'll benefit from a Live365 passowrd (which you get from www.live365.com and is free), which you key in to the web at www.slimdevices.com. The web links to your own Squeezebox through a PIN. Live365 gives you access to 1000's of web radio programs (though to avoid adverts, you would need to buy a live365 subscription at around $50US). The second is the SqueezeNetwork, which lets you access the internet radio (Live 365, Pandora etc) and RSS newsfeeds with your PC switched off. Pandora is only available in the US, though....
Sound quality is excellent, and the display size can be varied to suit the short-sighted, or with some basic (but fun) visualisations. I've had no buffering problems or drop-outs at all on a standard home broadband connection.
Connections to your amp can be by RCA phono plug (the usual red-and-white cable) or by optical or coaxial audio cable.
All-in-all I'm very - VERY - pleased. If you're in the market for a streaming, audio-only device to connect to your HiFi, this is the one!
Buy Buy Buy!!!
I have been searching for an audio streaming solution for some time and all the reviews of other options were very mixed, especially on multi function equipment which just seems to try to do too much. The Squeezbox works and works very well indeed. I set mine up in ten minutes, after reading the manual first (breaking the habit of a lifetime), no problems so far, sound quality is excellent considering where its coming from and I gave up Audiophile status in the 1980's. I am happy with what I hear, no dropouts, wireless is very reliable and the server software for the resource PC is very simple and effective. I was a bit concerned about being able to see the screen from across the room, but the display is superb and is easily visable at its largest setting from 10-12 feetaway. buy one today!!
Superb wireless Internet radio !
Well, I agree with the majority of reviewers who report how good this is, and wonder if the solitary disappointed reviewer has got a bad example - the alternative explanation is too terrible to contemplate! I also am a hi fi buff, with several £000s of Linn etc high end separates in my regular sound system - and am VERY HAPPY with what the Squeezebox does. One thing I did notice is that the Squeezebox does not sound at all good played through my Linn amps (very muffled sound), so maybe there are incompatibilities with some specific systems?
My main use is for streaming Internet radio through my secondary hi fi system (a very nice little Denon micro setup), the installation worked fine, and the music quality is excellent. Try radioparadise.com for a superb eclectic mix of music from the 60s to the present, without adverts.
EVERYONE who has listened to this in my home has been impressed, and many are now considering buying one themselves .............
