A couple years ago, I found out about the Roku Soundbridge and snagged
one. I wasn't looking for a way to serve my own music, but for a way
to listen to Internet radio through the real stereo without having to
connect a computer. I loved it so much that I bought another one just
for the
During 2005 I got my first iPod (iPod mini) I connected it to the music
equipment in the living room and after a while I realized I missed two
things:
- Remote control
- A screen that was visible a few meters away
In december 2005 I found and purchase a Squeezebox 3 and during
Christmas 2005 I
For me it was around August-September 2005, when we were thinking about
turning our unfinished basement into a rec room. At the same time I
dragged out the college-era JVC amp and ESS speakers that had been
banished from the living room (too ugly for my other half) and did some
minor repair work
It was the summer of 2005. I had reached a point where I was running
out of room to store CDs. I had about 1000 at the time. I also
realized that I could buy a 400GB hard drive and encode my entire
collection to FLAC and fit it there.
I remembered vaugely the SliMP3, and Googled it and found
Mine was a long and extravagant road. I wanted a database to track my
music library, and wrote several over the years: ModPerl+MySQL
(inventory only), AOLserver+Oracle (included lossy MP3 encodings for a
few hundred CDs), and finally settled on a (in retrospect, strangely)
flexible solution using
I bought my first Slim Devices product in 2004. When I was single and
rented an apartment, I was pretty content with playing my CDs. When I
married, suddenly the CD collection, assortment of hifi gear, and
square footage doubled. Stairs separated some rooms, and, as neither my
wife nor I much
Well I am a much newer fan (8 months). But for the last 2 years I have
been looking for a solution that made everyone in the household in a
position to listen to his/hers personally favorits of music. From my
younger days I have a big cd collection but I as I got married and got
kids I ended up
I had been messing around with mp3s since around 1997, and in 1999 I had
one of the first network mp3 players, the RequestAudio. The Request was
okay, but it was expensive ($800), the sound chip was low quality, the
capacity was limited to 17GB, and you needed to have a TV on to use
it.
It was
You should make a poll!
I got my SB3's in 2007 and 2008.
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sand
2* Squeezebox 3 with Audioengine 5 speakers
1* QNAP TS-109, Version 2.1.0 build 0624T
Seagate ES 500GB
flipflip's SlimServer On TurboStation Release 3.14
mrhyde's USB swap util
several of erland's plugins
SqueezeCenter Version:
I got my SB3 in June 2006. This was after I had purchased a Cambridge
Audio music server which due to software problems I sent back. The
Cambridge audio server's sound was unbelievable I have to admit (to
this day haven't heard a Transporter)so I was quite sorry to see it go
but after doing
It was probably about 6 or 8 months before SqueezeNetwork went live. We
live in an area that simply cannot get FM (or AM for that matter) in
the house, and only weak signals in the car. It wasn't a problem for
years, as we were simply able to pick up the FM signals on our cable
TV. The the cable
I had been streaming music to my stereo for about 2 years with a
phillips device. It worked pretty well but it would stream everything
from my computer including the system sounds. I read about the SB3 in
Jan of this year and promptly ordered one. It's the best thing I have
bought. I've told
Nonreality;350841 Wrote:
We all buy gadgets and some are worth the money and some are not. This
is one that goes far beyond what we pay for it.
I agree wholeheartedly! How many devices can you buy that even years
afterward the initial purchase, major features are being added for
free!
I heard about Slimp3 on Slashdot. I guess it must have been the first
review. According to some comments, it was still vapourware at the
time.
However, spring of 2002 I was stuck taking over rent on a house where
I had previously only rented a single room (never fun when housemates
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.
About 5 years ago I had been looking for some server based music distribution,
fiddling with NetJuke and a Zaurus(!) PDA as a player in the living room.
Somebody in the NetJuke forums then mentioned a software called SlimServer.
Which I immediately liked for it's great web interface. After a
I wanted to buy the original SliMp3 in about 2000, but at the time I had
a $300 gift certificate to Amazon.com. I actually phoned up Slimdevices
at the time to see if they sold through Amazon (they didn't)...knowing
now SD's garage/lab roots, I probably talked to Sean on his cell
phone...
Mark Lanctot;350257 Wrote:
So what are your stories?
I bought a Rio Karma MP3 player (probably late 2004 or early 2005). Of
course I had to rip a selection of CDs for use on it. So I ended up
with a portion of our music library on the household server, and
started wondering whether there was
I was looking for a way to stream all my music to the 'good speakers'
and my research turned up the Turtle Beach Audiotron. I was all set to
buy one and it had already been discontinued even though most of the
reviews I read had been positive. I waited a while to see if they were
coming out
It was early 2004, just returning back from 3 years spent working in the
electronic wilderness known as Australia ;) . Actually remember the
first time I found Slimdevices on the web was at an internet cafe in
Stellenbosch, South Africa whilst travelling on my way back.
After my return in Dec
I bought my first SliMP3 probably in early 2003. It already came with
the custom remote and not the Sony remote that came with the first
batch of players.
I can't remember if I had read about the SliMP3 online or in a magazine
but I was thrilled by the whole streaming concept and the SliMP3
It's still one of the best devices I have ever bought (together with
all the SD products that followed).
Did I mention it changed my life?
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Michael
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I have a very similar story just slightly different ;) It all started
for me somewhere around 2000, I think. The CD player in my car took a
dump and rather than ripe up the dash or spend the cash to replace the
trunk unit I purchased an Archos 2000. I then started ripping my music
collection to
I bought an AudioTron in 2003 and really liked it. I anxiously awaited
rumored follow-on products from Turtle Beach that would supposedly add
support for things like FLAC and ReplayGain, and hopefully do away with
the pea-soup-green display. But Turtle Beach killed the AudioTron,
forcing me to
I bought my first SB a bit over 3 years ago: I had been using a program
on Linux to manage my music and allow a different form of network play
(lots of browsers, command lines, etc, but only one player). It was
frustrating since it had a ton of hard-coded limits (it -hated- my
Dylan collection
I'd been dancing around SliMP3's for a while. At first I'd been looking
for a device to bring my music to the stereo without having to have 500
CD's in my small living room. A friend said look at this one and
pointed me to SlimDevices. I promptly ignored it. Then, I visited
some friends who
I saw the slimp3 a long time ago, but I couldn't afford it at the time.
After a friend showed me his squeezebox 1, I ended up buying one for my
parrents, and then a SB2 for myself, and it's just been snowballing
from there.
Before I had various squeezeboxes, I had a PC attached to my stereo. I
Well, somebody's gotta be new, right? I read about the Duet about two
months ago and grabbed it a little over a month ago when it was on sale
and had a discount as well at Circuit City. I love it!
--
kc5f
kc5f's
kc5f;350316 Wrote:
Well, somebody's gotta be new, right?
With the references in this thread to SliMP3s and SB1s, I feel like the
new one too. :-)
--
Mark Lanctot
Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta)
Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery)
Sold: SB3, Duet
In 1999, some friends and I started a dot.com music company,
OneBigCD.com. We had a great idea, a store and a locker for internet
music. All of us wanted a better way to manage our CD collections.
I had outgrown a 200 CD Sony jukebox, and had a 301 CD Pioneer. It
worked OK, but management was not
Mark Lanctot wrote:
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 actually wanted a SliMP3
i think it was 2004 or 2005, not sure which, (it was shortly b4 the SB3
was announced). basically, i wanted a way to listen to a webstream for
the LION without needing a computer on at all.
i forget exactly how i heard about slim, if it was on cnet or
tomshardware or maybe even the now defunct
I first heard of SlimDevices from a Slashdot article about Sean building
the first units in his garage. The old website and photos are available
through the Way Back Machine
(http://web.archive.org/web/20010922131911/http://www.slimdevices.com/).
Thats back in September 2001, and wanted a SliMP3
My parents were building a new large house.
Instead of running analog speaker cable all over the house and deal
with all the issues involved with that, I started searching google for
IP Audio Distribution. I also slipped some synchronization keywords
here and there because they like to
I had dreamed of what the Squeeze products could do since I was about 13
years old. At the time, though, I thought the only way to get it was to
own my own radio station, so that was my goal in life at 13. Later, as
a poor newlywed in the early 90s, I splurged on a 5-disc CD changer.
That got me
I wasn't smart enough to envision a product like this when I was 13.
Back in 1999 when I got my first CD burner and learned about DAE, I
also dabbled with mp3. I started burning mp3 CDs to use with my
RioVolt. My vision was a PC set up next to the stereo with a small
unobtrusive CRT where I
Back in late 2002, I remember wanting a device to play music through my
stereo. I had an Archos Studio 20GB player, and that was OK as long as
you didn't mind the same playlist over and over.
I was searching through Amazon and came across the Audiotron. I really
wanted it, but didn't want to
I had been playing around with digitizing CDs to record my own
compllation albums forever. For many years, I went about it very wrong,
ripping stuff on the quick using WMP, and mostly just keeping track of
the latest few CDs I had recorded for myself. Basically it was a linear
continuation of the
] On Behalf Of Mark Lanctot
Sent: 16 October 2008 14:55
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Subject: [slim] Just curious: when/why did you get your first Slim/Logitech
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I'm particularly interested in the forum members with older players back
when this stuff was -really- obscure
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