toby10;471799 Wrote: > However, I'd strongly recommend getting a MySB account. There are LOTS > of incredible, free services available like Pandora*, Slacker*, Last.fm, > RadioTime, and others. And if, as you say, you like ShoutCast (as I do) > the SBS and MySB have a very nice ShoutCast interface including Bitrate > Filtering (ShoutCast searches return only the highest bitrate streams). I actually have a last.fm account, but I found their "radio" so unreliable (skipping, stopping in the middle of a track, playing totally unrelated songs because there happen to be two bands with the same name, etc.) that I hardly ever listen to it. I mainly use the service to get event recommendations, and keep track of the events I have attended. Don't know the other services though, maybe I'll give them a try.
toby10;471799 Wrote: > If your registration anxiety is a fear that Logitech will spam you or > sell your email, they will not. No, not at all. I already get so many spam mails each day that I would not even notice if there were one or two more ;-) I just don't want a device that is associated with an online service in such a way that it becomes useless if that service is discontinued or suffers a major downtime. Unfortunately that seems to be the impression that you get from the Radio when you first turn it on and it insists on connecting to SqueezeNetwork. If I had already bought one before reading this thread, I might have put it back into the box and returned it at that point. At least there should be a note in the users manual how to set it up for entirely local operation, IMHO. -- usch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ usch's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=69446 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list Radio@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
