Logitech Squeezebox Touch

by Logitech

Product Features

• Listen to an infinite variety of Internet radio stations, online music services, and your iTunes collection through your existing home stereo with this easy-to-use Wi-Fi music player
• Enjoy easy station and music control from anywhere in the room with a full-color touch screen, intuitive menus and remote
• Experience full, rich sound supported by high-resolution encoding
• Connect seamlessly to your home network through Wi-Fi or Ethernet, and also to connect to other Squeezebox players
• Part number 930-000074 or 930-000090 may be shipped, as these are identical products

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 9.7 x 8.4 inches ; 2.8 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002LARRDA
• Item model number: 930-000090
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (228 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,393 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 3, 2009

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

CES 2010 Innovations Award
Honoree in Audio Components CategoryNovember 2009

Logitech Squeezebox Touch Wi-Fi Music Player

Put music as infinite as the Internet at your fingertips.
From the hottest online music services to free Internet radio stations from every corner of the globe, never has such limitless music been so easy to enjoy. Thanks to Logitech Squeezebox Touch and your Wi-Fi network, you're free to listen to anything you can think of, all through your home stereo. Just touch the screen to tune in to music, news and sports from local stations across the planet. Discover new music tailored to your tastes from a world of music services. Even your entire digital music collection is right at your fingertips. With Squeezebox Touch, your stereo isn't just a music system. It's the center of the music universe.

Tune in to your limitless playlist.

SqueezeBox Touch
Noteworthy Features

• Play free local stations from every corner of the globe
• Access music services like Pandora, Rhapsody, Slacker and SIRIUS Internet Radio
• Browse your digital music collection stored on your home PC or Mac
• Plug in your flash drive to instantly play your favorite tracks

 

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Now playing on your home stereo—the world.
Your computer gives you access to virtually unlimited music choices from all around the world. Now your home stereo does, too. With Squeezebox Touch, your high-performance audio system can play anything your computer can in full, rich, room-filling sound, all streamed over your Wi-Fi or Ethernet network. What do you want to listen to? Live soccer coverage from a station in Barcelona? Your Gypsy Kings playlist stored on your computer down the hall? Hours of commercial-free classical radio? Browse and control it all with easy-to-use touch-screen menus. Just touch, explore and listen. It's that simple.

 

Brilliant full-color touch-screen and remote for fun, easy music control
The easy-to-read 4.3-inch touch-screen and intuitive menus put you in total music control. Simply touch “My Music”, “Internet Radio” or one of your favorite online services like Napster or Pandora to browse, select and play whatever suits your mood. Even album art is displayed so you can see what you want to hear. You also have a smart remote that actually knows where you are in the room. Move away from the touch-screen over to the couch, and the menus automatically enlarge for easy viewing from across the room.

 

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High-resolution encoding support for full, rich stereo sound
You like to hear it all, from the haunting high notes in a U2 guitar solo to the deep resonant bass at the bottom of a Miles Davis classic. With support for high-resolution encoding, Squeezebox Touch makes sure the important details in your digital music sources don't get lost in translation. Even if you're playing music softly in the background, you'll enjoy a high quality sound experience—without missing a beat, note or nuance.

 

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Add more Squeezebox players for a multi-room music system
Do you want to bring a world of music to other rooms—without running wires? Easy. Check out Squeezebox Radio and Squeezebox Boom all-in-one Wi-Fi music players with built-in speakers. They're small enough to fit easily on your bedroom night table or kitchen counter. And they work with your Squeezebox Touch. Simply add a handheld Squeezebox Controller and you can play the same music throughout the house, or mix it up with a different playlist in every room.

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Connects to Facebook for sharing music recommendations with friends
Say you just discovered a killer indie band track on your Squeezebox Radio. Now you can tell your friends about it instantly. Display your Facebook home page and browse your friends' walls right on the screen. You can even set your Facebook photos or news feed as your screensaver. So you can send them music recommendations the moment you hear that amazing track or Internet radio station—and receive theirs, all without a computer.

 

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Seamless home network support, effortless setup
Squeezebox Touch keeps things simple from the start. Just plug the music player into your audio system, turn on the power and the player automatically finds your home Wi-Fi network. You also have the option to plug in an Ethernet cable. Either way, in just five minutes you'll be listening to stations around the globe.

 

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USB port and SD card slot expand your listening and viewing experience
Say you have a ton of favorite tracks stored on an external flash drive. Just plug the drive into the music player's USB port and your tunes are ready to play through your home stereo. You also have a built-in SD card slot. Just slide in your memory card to watch an instant slide show of your pictures, right on the touch-screen display.

 

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Free SqueezeNetwork connects you to global stations and music services
Your Wi-Fi music player comes complete with the Logitech SqueezeNetwork, an online service that makes it easy to access all the Internet radio stations and music services you could ever want. Sign up for free and get connected right on your Squeezebox touch-screen.

 

Compatibility

What's in the box?

• Logitech Squeezebox Touch
• Power supply with plug adapters
• Infrared remote control with batteries
• Stereo audio cable
• User documentation
• Cleaning cloth
• 2-year limited hardware warranty

System requirements:

For access to music on your computer use Squeezebox software with the minimum system requirements:

• 256 MB RAM and 100 MB of available hard disk space
• Broadband Internet connection required for Internet radio and music services
• Stereo system or powered speakers
• Ethernet or 802.11 b/g wireless home network

With any of the following operating systems:

• Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3 or later
• Windows: 733MHz Pentium running Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
• Linux/BSD/Solaris/Other: Perl 5.8.3 or later

Compare

Which Squeezebox Wi-Fi Music Player Is Right For You?

	Squeezebox Radio	Squeezebox Touch
Highlight	Compact design with high quality sound	Color touch-screen with rich, full digital music through your stereo or powered speakers
Great for	Kitchen Bedroom Home office Patio Anywhere without a stereo!	Living room Anywhere with a stereo or powered speakers On your desk
Which should you choose?	You want big sound in a small space. You are someone who likes to listen while you work. You need something to fit in your work area. You want music in every room of your home and you want to be able to control it from anywhere. You already own a Squeezebox Duet and want to add more zones.	You are a music lover and you want high fidelity sound and easy access to all your music. You are someone who has a personal music collection on an external USB drive. You enjoy viewing album art, photos, and visualizers You already own a Squeezebox Duet and want to add more zones.
Connection Sound output	Integrated speakers (no stereo required)	Connects to your stereo or self powered speakers
Control	On board controls, optional infrared remote (line of sight required)	Color touch screen with infrared remote (line of sight required)
Special Features	Seven day alarm with battery backup Connect iPod and other portable music players via 3.5mm stereo jack Connects to Facebook- share recommendations with friends 2.4 inch color display Optional battery pack for portability	USB port and SD card slot allows access to music and pictures View album art and your photos Supports sampling rates up to 24 bit / 96 kHz

Product Description

Logitech Squeezebox Touch. The color touch-screen Wi-Fi music player that lets you discover a world of music—all through your stereo.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

216 of 230 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Highest quality wireless audio streamer in its price class April 15, 2010

By C. Razzell

Amazon Verified Purchase

** EDIT: this product has now been officially discontinued by Logitech. A puzzling decision, and a sad one for the buying public who now have very few choices that aren't either very expensive or compromised in audio quality. **

I purchased my first Squeezebox Touch directly from Logitech, and have enjoyed it enough over the first few days of ownership to write a quick review.

To understand where I'm coming from, it may help to know I enjoy classical music, especially when its reproduced by a traditional stereo system with high quality discrete components. I own a British designed and built integrated amplifier and some tall floor-standing speakers from a Canadian manufacturer. Sound quality matters a whole lot to my enjoyment of music, and that shows in the care with which I select the components in my audio system.

I have owned a number of Logitech's previous Squeezebox WiFi streamers, including the Squeezebox Classic and some Duet receivers, so I am not new to the Squeezebox ecosystem. I keep my music collection as a large library of FLAC-encoded files, so as to avoid any potential losses due to codec compression artifacts.

On receiving my new Squeezebox Touch, I swapped out an existing "Slimdevices" branded classic Squeezebox in my main HiFi system for the new device. The Squeezebox Touch first discovered MySqueezebox.com as its source of music and asked me to provide login credentials, which caused it to upgrade its firmware from that site. After that, it rebooted and was able to connect to my local Squeezebox Server that I have running to serve music around the house. After that, I was able to browse my music collection and navigate to internet radio stations either using the touch interface or by using the supplied remote control....

I noticed that the interface automatically uses bigger fonts if you are controlling it from the IR remote and smaller ones if it finds you are controlling it via the touchscreen, which obviously makes sense when you are within an arm's length of the display.

As a first test, I played back a 96kHz, 24-bit high resolution copy of Marianne Thorsen on violin with the TrondheimSolistene playing Mozart's D-major Violin Concerto. At first I played the tracks via a Benchmark DAC1, which is a studio-quality monitoring DAC for use by mixing engineers. The sound was detailed, rich with a deep stereo image and musically involving. Next, I removed the Benchmark DAC from the signal path and tried again. Once again the sound was clearly better than a CD could provide and very close to that rendered through the Benchmark DAC. There has clearly been an improvement to the quality of the analog stereo outputs compared to previous Squeezebox versions, which was already pretty good.

I then went on to listen to Emanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma playing some Mendelssohn Piano Trios. This recording was "only" in 16-bit/44.1kHz CD quality audio, nevertheless I was soon captivated by the musicality of the performance, and could find no significant short comings of the quality as rendered by the built-in DACs compared to the external, studio quality Benchmark DAC1.

Someone starting to use this system without prior experience of Squeezebox Servers or software might face something of a learning curve to begin with. I can't speak to that, but I appreciate that I was able to drop this new device into an existing system and, within a few minutes, start to enjoy some very high quality reproduction of my music library.

The advantages over the previous Squeezebox Classic are:
* Color, touch-controlled user interface and display
* Ability to play back high resolution music without loss of quality
* Excellent audio quality from the analog outputs; significantly better than previous versions.

Another possible advantage is to use the Squeezebox Touch as a music server as well as a client, by attaching a USB hard drive to the supplied USB port. I have not tested this functionality, so I can't comment on how well it works. This review was mainly focussed on sound quality.

Based on my short experience, I recommend this device highly. I think it is a worthy successor to the Squeezebox Classic, as it provides significantly more in terms user interface and sound quality for the same retail price as the older player. Read more ›

84 of 88 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing device; this new generation Squeezebox has great sound too April 29, 2010

By A. Altman

Amazon Verified Purchase

This is an amazing product. It is my first Squeezebox product - really my first attempt at home to do computer based audio outside of just using iTunes and plugging my computer headphone jack into a stereo, which is great fun and sounds just OK - no where as much fun or as great sounding as the Touch.

I have been waiting for a product that I could use in my audiophile home stereo. Logitech SB Transporter seemed like a good bet but it was a bit expensive ($2000) and reviews described a quality of sound (lean, detailed) that is not my cup of tea. I'm a tube guy. Love LP's, love tube amps. Sweet lifelike sound.

If you are at all curious about computer based audio to feed your home stereo, you can stop reading here. Just buy this thing. It is amazing. It is not perfect. Some aspects of it are easier to configure than others. But for me, and I know for a lot of other people, it is a life changing experience as regards my use of music in my home.

I "rip" cds into iTunes using Apple lossless for computer playback and at a 256 bit rate for small capacity iPods. They both sound excellent when played by the Touch, either via analog out or via digital into a third party DAC.

This product is MOSTLY very easy to set up and use. It found my wifi network quickly, and it found the iTunes library on my Mac quickly. I am getting internet radio stations from all over the world. The sound from the analog outputs is now - with this new generation Squeezebox - EXTREMELY good. It has great tonality and is very lifelike. I'm comparing my superb Cary cd player (the 308T with tube output stage) to the the analog outs of the Touch and also to the digital out of the Touch into a Bryston BDA-1 DAC.... The Bryston is winning awards, and it sounds incredible, (over $2k new, around $1400 used). I use the digital out of the Touch to feed the Bryston and it sounds fantastic. It is very close to my awesome Cary cd player ($2500 new plus upgraded tubes).

But the analog out of the Touch also sounds excellent. The Bryston and my Cary CD player both have a bit more detail and place the instruments and singers more distinctly in a sound-stage, and they have a little bit tighter bass, BUT BUT BUT the Touch analog output stage - for just $300 - has excellent tonality, excellent detail, deep and well controlled bass..... It is shockingly good. I may or may not get a 3rd party DAC for my home stereo (the Bryston is borrowed from a friend) but I don't feel that I NEED to.

I bought a second Touch to use in my bedroom stereo. I am keeping the first one in my main high end audio system. As I say, I may or may not end up adding a third party DAC in the latter system, not sure, but certainly not for the bedroom system.

Caution: I am having some trouble configuring some aspects of this device, such as controlling it from my computer. The basic functionality is working great. The Touch is taking music off the server on my Mac, no problem. And also I'm playing music off an SDHC card in the Touch (the first Squeezebox to offer this functionality, as I understand). Feeding the Touch directly with an external hard drive is working hit or miss. Trying to use the computer based "player" for the Touch is mostly miss.

The remote is great. When you start to use the remote the characters on the screen get bigger - it's perfect.

There is apparently a community of programmers that build third party apps for this thing. I've not yet begun to explore that. Some are free and some have nominal charge.

I am giving this 5 stars because it is a fantastic device; mostly easy to configure, sounds great, sounds even better when feeding an external DAC, and downright life-changing when it comes to home entertainment. I am tempted to deduct a star because of some aspects that appear buggy or hard to configure but I just can't do it.

The Touch ain't perfect, but it is fantastic. Read more ›

65 of 67 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Happy Audiophile October 14, 2010

By granger VINE™ VOICE

Update 2/19/13
Well after over two years the Touch is still working fine. After about a year I added a Grant Fidelity dac because I was finding the Touch's sound just a bit soft and have been very happy with the addition. It is still a very nice device that has worked fine with my Synology server. In fact, big kudos to Synology they've kept their product up, are still keeping the Squeeze server up, and have added all sorts of great cloud products.

So Logitech has pulled the plug. Actually as long as they don't hog the rights and give it back to open source I'm sure the product will still have a long life. I think I understand why they did it. I wanted to add another squeeze in the bedroom and was not about to pay the now inflated prices for these products on the web.

Enter Android!! There is now a squeeze player app that will allow Android devices from phones to tablets to stream from the squeeze server - and if you know what you're doing you can squeeze from anywhere on the internet. You also need a controller app and I'm loving Orange Squeeze which is FAR better than the Logitech interface and looks beautiful on my Xoom tablet. Total price $7! Now about sound quality which is very important to me. It turns out the Xoom has marvelous headphone circuity and is perfectly fine for my bedroom (see my Xoom review). But there is also an android app (usb audio recorder pro) that allows your USB dac to work with android so if you can find a tablet with a usb port and buy yourself a $4 OTG (on the go) cable you can now use a usb dac to deliver the sound.

My Xoom looks marvelous on its dock for music and you can keep orange squeeze active on the screen as long as you want. And of course its got so many more uses.... In fact I find that when I want to really use it as a tablet I often find myself plugging my phone into the system to keep the music going!

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Say goodbye to cd players and tuners. They are now history; no matter how much you've spent for them. I've just eliminated mine from my equipment rack. Now I'm sure there's some small improvements to be had here and there with some multi-thousand dollar gear, but for us common folk this is truly the only way to go. I've been a rabid though frugal audiophile for 40 years and this is the best.

Even without adding an outboard DAC this little unit surpasses my highly regarded $600 cd player. Not only does it get the frequency balance and microdetails right, but the sound stage is focused and spacious. AND even with the best cd player there's no way to put together playlists or play uninterupted music. If you've got a home theater receiver, compare both the digital and analog outputs because you will likely find the DAC in the Touch superior to your receiver. But before you do, break in the Touch for a couple of days to get the best sound quality from it.

And unless you've got an outdoor antenna and mega buck FM tuner the Touch will also far surpass anything you've ever heard from your FM tuner or receiver; plus you've got an absurd amount of stations to choose from.

Ok, now for some advice. Rip your collection to an uncompressed format or you'll never get really good sound. All the advice I've seen suggests using FLAC encoding. Its bit perfect and takes about half the space of using WAV files and is easily tagged - and its easily decoded by the Touch. Ripping your collection is a time consuming process. I highly recommend using dbpoweramp ripping software. It will rip to FLAC and it works to get the best copy of the cd that it can. Most important though is that you get a subscription to perfect meta which has had proper tagging info and album art for even my most obscure disks. Believe me doing a good job ripping your collection can eat up your time without the right software. Dbpoweramp is really valuable for this job and worth every dime!!

The easiest way to go is just to put your music on an external CD drive and use this with the squeezebox server built right into the Touch. If you've got a thousand cd's, 500gb of drive should more than take care of you. The Touch has a few limitation in terms of playlist size and how many other squeezeboxes it will support - but its got none of the difficulties or drawbacks of using an NAS server or your PC. But you MUST use a usb cd drive that provides its own power. If you have one that draws it power from the usb cable then get a powered hub and hook your drive into that and then hook the hub into the Touch. It takes maybe an hour to index the drive at first but then its done. Leave the drive on all the time and be sure to get one that goes into standby mode when its not used.
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Update 10/22/10
As I've gotten more of my disks ripped into FLAC files (about 900+ albums now)I'm finding I've reached the limits of the USB drive capabilities. Its just too slow, hesitates on music, etc. Running the Squeezebox server on my Vista computer worked fine, but I went ahead and got a Synology 210j network storage device because I really didn't want to have to turn on a computer to play music. I'd only recommend doing that if you're technically inclined but I will attest to the fact that Synology runs squeezebox just fine. Evidently you need a NAS with at least 128mb of memory and not all low price servers have that much.
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