I think it must have been some time on 2001 but we had just decided to decorate and as part of the preparation an entire wall rack of CD's had to be taken off the wall and stored.
After the painting was done it was time to put the whole thing back up. I had already used a PC to store music for parties that I would play via playlists and as I assessed the task of putting all these cd's back on to the freshly painted wall I thought that there had to be a better way. It did not take much research before Audiotron and Slimdevices were found. Once I saw a picture of the Slimp3 I was hooked. It did exactly what I needed - play my ripped CD collection from a central store - distributed over Ethernet with a cool display and remote. I found a UK reseller and ordered one immediately. It worked out the box, everyone was impressed, 4 friends of mine did the same. A few years later we moved to a new house which we had built - fully wired Cat5 to all rooms for obvious reasons. We have awaited each new product release with eager anticipation - the SB1, then upgrading it to an SB1G, then the SB2 (wired and then Wifi) which we use mostly. I have only recently added an SB3 just because I wanted another unit. I think I must be a very much 'old school' user as the idea of a player without a display is a tough one for me - and to have a neat colour LCD based controller that could easily get dropped (you should meet my family!) would not be good right now! Historically I have always ripped to MP3 but recently I have performed some tests with Flac files and despite many years of seeing Rush Live - I could hear a difference immediately. Now, when I get the chance - I shall have to teach some children how to open a CD case, pop it into a PC and rip it to Flac - x 500. 'I want a squeezebox boombox' and will be getting one when funds permit. I like the look of the Transporter but it would be wasted on me. I love the products, they have always worked, never had any real problems with Slimserver/Squeezecenter and I love my weatherdisplay plugin. When I have the time - I would like to write a plugin that could give me the local wind forecast for the coming days. Being keen divers - if it always said less than 10 knots - that would do! Regards Richard Scales 2 x slimp3, 1 x SB1G, 4 x SB2, 1 x SB3 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Lanctot Sent: 16 October 2008 14:55 To: discuss@lists.slimdevices.com Subject: [slim] Just curious: when/why did you get your first Slim/Logitech player? I'm particularly interested in the forum members with older players back when this stuff was -really- obscure... This thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53642 prompted me to think about when I first heard of Slim Devices. I probably heard of the Squeezebox from the AVS Forum. The main stumbling block for me was price and the fact that it was 802.11b with WEP. However I thought SlimServer was very cool, installed it and played with it. I guess I'm easily impressed, I thought it was very neat that it ran a remote web server that could be controlled over the network. At that time I started cleaning up my tags and ripping my CDs to FLAC. Eventually I uninstalled SlimServer as it wasn't doing anything for me and I almost forgot about Slim Devices. Fast-forward to October 2005 when (again through AVS Forums) I learned about the SB3. I went to the website where I discovered the remaining SB2s were on sale. The SB2 addressed the issues I had with the SB1 and seeing as it was on sale and money was better for me at the time, I dove in. I wrote a review article for a computer forum I was active in at the time, ABX Forum, but I posted it here first for comments. Sean Adams wondered why I was reviewing the SB2 and an older version of SS (6.0.2?) and sent me an SB3 for review. I was thinking of a use for 2 players at the time, so when the review period was over I ended up buying that SB3. The rest is history... So what are your stories? -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53831 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
