JJZolx;459163 Wrote: > I wasn't really trying to be funny. I think the Squeezebox Touch is a > very poor choice for such an application. There's now a 64GB iPod Touch > available (for about the same price as an SB Touch and external hard > drive) and for just $249 the 160GB iPod Classic can store more than 2000 > albums in high quality MP3. There's just no compelling reason to kludge > together some kind of Squeezebox setup in your car. > > What really gets me shaking my head are the people speculating about > how they'll be able to use the Squeezebox Touch with its internal server > and an external hard drive as a portable system. Essentially it just > gives you a gigantic multi-piece iPod that is bound to an electrical > socket.
The to funny part was about the two being Touch and an inside joke with Radish (the before the announcement idea he had). So probably a whole lot funnier for me then anybody else. It doesn't have to be a kludge. Just as one has to have power for an iPod on a long trip all one needs is power for the Touch. I just bought a new 500GB Toshiba drive like my 320 today. It is the size of an iPod and USB powered. So I have the Touch and the drive the size of an iPod but 500 GB of favorite FLAC files. Thats it. The DC/DC PS is mounted behind the dash and all I do is plug the AUX RCAs in and the DC power. Squeezebox in the car mobile! When I get to the Beach or Cabin, unplug RCAs and power plug, take the Touch and iPod size drive inside and connect it to the Stereo. I have FLAC for the inside and road with way more song choices then my 32GB iPhone (love the iPhone, but you couldn't give me just an iPod). Maybe its just me and the fact that I like music so much and don't care to listen to what is OTA and CDs are a pain when you travel. Or maybe because I have been driving around with SqueezeCenter in the cars with a Duet and SB3 for almost two years already and just think that Touch with TinySC just makes it that much easier. And if car makers are including 40GB MP3 drives in their cars now, why would Touch seem so far fetched? Anyway, I had to have Squeezebox in my car before Touch and found a way to do it. When Touch is released, it will just be that much easier (plus the Mac Mini can come back into the house). The Touch is a whole lot less expensive (and less of a kludge) then a Duet and Mac Mini in a car to get Squeezebox mobile. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=68009 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
