snarlydwarf Wrote: > The device baffles me because I really do see no use for it at all. > This PC I'm typing on is just around the corner from where I listen to > music most of the time.. I could put an amp in here and run speaker > wire into there... and it would sound fine... but.. I'd have to get my > ass off the couch to change songs. I queue music to play on the SB in my listening room from the PC in my office. I can't stand using the Squeezebox remote. If I'm playing music in random mode, which I do occasionally, all I need the remote for is to skip a song. Some day I'll get a PDA or small laptop to use mostly for controlling the Squeezebox, but until then using a PC in another room is the more attractive control method for me.
Here's another example. About a year and half ago, before I got my first SB1, my buddy was looking for a way to play music on the PC in his office to his stereo in his living room. On someone else's recommendation, he ended up making up some very inexpensive interconnects out of Cat5 cabling - something like 75' or so to get from the office, over a sunroom and into the living room. When I got my Squeezebox, he saw it, and was very impressed by it. I suggested that it would ideal for his system, but the $300 price tag floored him. He already had a 'solution' that cost him less than $20. Had the LinkSys with a price tag of under $90 been available at the time, no doubt it would have been a much more likely candidate. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21466 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
