ralphpnj wrote: > Thanks for the link - a very interesting and eye opening read. The link > to the Meridian Sooloos site > (http://www.meridian-audio.com/sooloos/index.php) features a very nice > video of how the Sooloos system works, complete with a British accented > voice over. For those of you who are not from the US, here in the US > anything sold with a proper British accent is understood to be very > classy and very expensive :) > > After reading the thread and watching the video I now feel pretty > certain that I have a computer based digital music playback almost on > par with the very classy and expensive Sooloos system. My system > consists of a Squeezebox Transporter with the balanced analog outputs > feeding my SimAudio preamp and power amp and Vandersteen speakers. My > dedicated music server is an HP desktop computer running Windows 7 along > with two Drobo arrays which hold my digital music library, a library > comprised of 16/44.1, 24/44.1. 24/48, 24/88.2 and 24/96 fully tagged > flac files. To complete the faux Sooloos experience I also have a laptop > computer which runs the latest version of MUSO > (http://klarita.net/muso.html), a very nice front end controller for the > Squeezebox Server. Although MUSO is not a touch screen interface, it > does offer of the features found in the Sooloos interface, should one > care to take the time to rate the music in one's collection as well tag > things like mood, scenario, etc. In addition I also use Moose > (http://www.rusticrhino.com/drlovegrove/), another very nice front end > controller for the Squeezebox Server. While Moose is not as feature rich > as MUSO it does offer blazingly fast good old text based searching, > something I treasure given the large size of my music library. >
Nice system! Speaking of plugins and front ends like MUSO, do anyone know if there is a plug-in / front end that will scan the directory of albums and look for scanned covers/booklets/etc.? For example, some HDTracks downloads have PDF books, and over the years I have scanned in pictures of the CD booklets usually put in the "Art" directory where all my FLAC's are located. This is one thing I have missed - being able to 'flip' through the booklet when listening to the music... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96407 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
