paxtonc Wrote: > You could buy a skipjam audio and report back on how it goes - seems to > have everything you're looking for,
Hrrm? It doesn't look that different from a Squeezebox in how it behaves (ie, no internal HD, all music fetched from the network). That seems to be what the Original Poster wanted: no need for a noisy PC.... that doesn't eliminate the PC requirement at all. It offers the same relief as the SB does in that regard: hide the PC far away from where you listen to music. For more money than an SB2... and with no nifty display (how on earth do you control the thing without the sort of display slim uses? Especially nice with SB2 since it's so readable from the couch). The 'benefits' I see in the skipjam are support for DRM audio files... and... um... that's it. Oh: an RF remote which also acts as a cordless phone. That could be sort of neato depending on how the blasting and learning works. But, then there's plenty of IR-blasting RF remotes... You lose the display and the open source server (does skipjam support last.fm and audioscrobbler? what about the weblogger plugin? these are some of the reasons I love the open source nature of SlimServer) and probably a bunch of other things: those two are such biggies for me that I wouldn't even consider the skipjam. That and "you have to run Windows to use this"... Which still leaves a PC on, and one with a monitor and keyboard, too. My SlimServer is an old P2-400 sitting on the floor in a nook beside my desk... no monitor or keyboard. Some day it may move to a closet but I haven't bothered. :) -- snarlydwarf _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
