Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-03-14 Thread adamslim
ajmitchell;277304 Wrote: Further to this idea of scrolling as the main advantage. Can you scroll without album art, thus seeing many more lines at a time? In fact how many lines of songs can you see on the controller's screen? (I dont see any screen shots of this). Also is th menu structure

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-03-14 Thread Skunk
ajmitchell;279403 Wrote: anyone with a Duet remote help my query? above Check out my other hobby http://ajmitchell.shutterpoint.com Since the query's been addressed, I'll just add that being a photographer, the graphical remote should be right up your alley. If you upload some of your

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-03-13 Thread ajmitchell
anyone with a Duet remote help my query? above -- ajmitchell Check out my other hobby http://ajmitchell.shutterpoint.com ajmitchell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=800 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-03-13 Thread Ben Sandee
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 3:30 AM, ajmitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further to this idea of scrolling as the main advantage. Can you scroll without album art, thus seeing many more lines at a time? No, you can see 4 albums at a time in album view. If you have no album art you get

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-03-09 Thread ajmitchell
Further to this idea of scrolling as the main advantage. Can you scroll without album art, thus seeing many more lines at a time? In fact how many lines of songs can you see on the controller's screen? (I dont see any screen shots of this). Also is th menu structure exasctly the same as that in

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-03-08 Thread MagnusVonMagnum
After examining several whole house audio solutions, I'm currently down to looking at either going with an Airtunes + iPod Touch running Remote Buddy solution OR a Squeezebox + iPod Touch running iPeng solution (plus possibly a MediaPro + PS3 option in the home theater room). My all important

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-03-08 Thread erland
MagnusVonMagnum;277250 Wrote: My all important question is whether or not the iPod Touch with iPeng will work with the new Duet receiver or not without a Duet Controller. iPeng works with the Duet, Transporter and SqueezeBox. The current version doesn't contain all the functionality

[slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-01-16 Thread PLynas
I am interested in the new Squeezebox Duet with the new remote but am undecided due to the high cost and not having seen the remote in action. If anyone who has used the new remote could help me it would be greatly appreciated. Apologies for the long post but I will try and explain my setup and

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-01-16 Thread Mnyb
I found this in the wiki http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?JiveUI You can type in text with this remote to, it's not described how ? This wiki is probably a leftover from the beta projekt. -- Mnyb Mnyb's Profile:

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-01-16 Thread radish
I find it much easier to use than the normal remote, firstly because it's more responsive and secondly because I can see several lines at once. Aside from those differences the navigation is currently quite similar, with the same browse and search options. Text is entered character at a time with

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-01-16 Thread Skunk
PLynas;259480 Wrote: I tend to Browse using the remote, but generally enter the first letter of an artist or album on the remote to get there quicker. I presume that you cannot do this on the new remote. That's still possible, but you use search and scroll to the first letter. With scrolling

Re: [slim] Squeezebox Duet and Remote - to buy or not to buy?

2008-01-16 Thread erland
PLynas;259480 Wrote: So I guess my question is - just how user friendly is the new remote? Is it easy to find what you are looking for quickly if you have a large music collection and does it offer a big advantage over using the existing remote with the Squeezebox display? I am tempted to