Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Nursery Now Complete - Squeezebox Radio!

2010-01-20 Thread micah
My four year old son loves to put his own music using the Controller. He can't read yet, but he knows to press "House" (home) then turn the wheel to "Heart" (favorites) and turn the wheel till he sees the right picture (album cover) then press triangle (play). Still working on getting my wife

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Nursery Now Complete - Squeezebox Radio!

2010-01-20 Thread Tony T
spedinfargo;508547 Wrote: > - even the Sleep functionality is simple to get to (although I wish > there was a shortcut to a hard button for that). > I agree that that a button would be nice, but in case you didn't know, it can be put on the Home Screen. -- Tony T

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Nursery Now Complete - Squeezebox Radio!

2010-01-20 Thread bhaagensen
maggior;508563 Wrote: > > One day, your child will ask you to put on some of "your music" and it > will bestill your heart. My daughter has requested Dizzy Gillespie and > Charlie Parker Live at Town Hall for the past 3 nights. :-). Daddy's > girl indeed! > > Enjoy! If you get impatient in t

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Nursery Now Complete - Squeezebox Radio!

2010-01-20 Thread maggior
I put my daughter's boom where she could reach it to see how she would do. She is certainly capable of using it herself, but she perfers us to queue up music for her. I even gave her my wife's iPod to play with at one point and it was a similar situation. She can read well enough for the device

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Nursery Now Complete - Squeezebox Radio!

2010-01-20 Thread raven22
Pretty cool isn't it, my daughters (3 and 4) love their Booms as well. With their favorite music programmed with the preset buttons, they can operate it themselves. -- raven22 Setup: 1 SB3, 3 Booms and 1 Radio. Server: SheevaPlug running Debian 6.0 Squeeze on SD-card with SqueezeBoxServer 7.5

Re: [SlimDevices: Radio] Nursery Now Complete - Squeezebox Radio!

2010-01-20 Thread maggior
Congrats on being first time parents! And welcome to the wonderful world of the squeezebox. All of my kids (3 in total now ranging from 10 months to 5 years old) have Booms in their rooms. In our house, music is an essential tool at times for bedtime. It really helps with naps by creating back

[SlimDevices: Radio] Nursery Now Complete - Squeezebox Radio!

2010-01-20 Thread spedinfargo
We put a lot of time and effort into the nursery for the new baby (our first!) but after a couple of weeks it's been too quiet in there... I had kicked around getting back on the Squeezebox bandwagon and after reading about the Radio I realized that it would be the perfect accessory. Setup was a