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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect - and this can be set up without the controller, August 3, 2008
I've been wanting a Squeezebox for some time but didn't want to pay for the controller. The Logitech Squeezebox software has long been open source and has a large and very active online community that is supported by the company. I looked through their forum (http://forums.slimdevices.com/) and found that one of their senior members wrote software allowing the Squeezebox Receiver to be configured WITHOUT the remote control. A link directly to the software, as reported in a comment to a previous post, can be found at http://robinbowes.com/projects/Net-UDAP. It's not officially supported by the Logitech, but I was able to get my receiver configured with it in less than an hour.
One caveat though; you should be a bit tech savy if you are going to go this route. The software is still in beta, has not been *offically* released (by reading through the thread on this topic (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43722&highlight=network+configuration), mostly because the guy who wrote it hasn't had time to package it up). So, currently the software is only available through an online subversion repository, which if you haven't worked with before, could take an hour or two of fiddling around to get repository software and check out the code. The configuration itself is done via a perl command line, so windows users will need ActivePerl. Check out the documentation, it's pretty straightforward.
So if none of that scares you, this is an incredible solution for wireless streaming music from a computer to a stereo for 150 bucks.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy way to expand your sqeezebox network, May 30, 2008
I currently have the Logitech Squeezebox Duet Network Music System which includes one receiver (like this one sold here) and the controller. I wanted to add an additional receiver without spending $400, so this worked perfectly. My one squeezebox controller now controls both receivers, so my husband can listen to talk radio in one room while I get to listen to my favorite Pandora stations in the other room. This will not work stand-alone as the other reviewer stated, but if you already own the Squeezebox Duet system, you can expand and add several receivers and there won't be a need to buy another controller.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
From casual listening to audiophile appreciation - the Squeezebox Revolution, February 8, 2009
If you love music, and if you have a decent home network, wireless (preferred) or wired, do not hesitate to take a plunge in the Squeezebox Revolution. I first bought the Duet, then a few more Receivers, then the Classic, then the Boom, well you get the picture. If I had set up my house in the traditional way of distributed music system, with in-wall speakers and zone-based amps and a rackful of disc changers, it would have cost me over $10,000 to achieve half of what I have accomplished with the superbly cost effective Squeezebox. But cost is not even the point here. It is about quality and philosophy. Squeezebox products simply work, in a elegantly simple and reliable way that you would usually only expect from Apple. And they work both as joyful listening devices for causal internet radio, home server streaming, and as utterly serious audiophile grade equipment to digitally feed you high-end 2-channel system. Sync them, run them independently, set an alarm, wake up a sleeping computer, read an artist bio, hide it in a closet or display it on your precious system rack, Squeezebox simply rocks. Unfailingly. Now the philosophy. I love the technology, but it is the Squeezebox vision of freeing your music by way of adhering to open audio standards and open source computing that has earned my highest respect and devotion. If you are a passive user, great - Squeezebox will be routinely updated to bring you the latest new features, from 192/24 high definition audio decoding to power saving digital amp update, just enjoy them all without having to go out and buy new components (remember the days when you just bought a great CD player then SACD suddenly came out?). If you are geeky (not that anything's wrong with it), you can tweak your SqueezeCenter (the totally free software server powering your SqueezeBox hardware devices) in a myriad of creative ways, from importing your entire iTunes library to writing your own plug-ins, so that you can make your SqueezeBox experience that much more special. It is unfortunate that most reviewers reporting problems are in fact having underlying issues with their home network. Let's hope SqueezeBox keeps making its products more user-friendly to overcome some of the more complicated computer / network difficulties associated with enabling such a powerful digital music reproduction experience. One beef I have with the product - in this day and age, it is a shame that the N wireless protocol is not yet integrated in SqueezeBox. While I applaud you and thank you for all the great new firmware and software upgrades, it will be a dream come true if all my devices can be updated with N support one of these days. Remember folks, it is all about the music! Happy Listening.
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