Music streaming solution

[DsW]

The answer to all your music streaming prayers has arrived!

The Squeezebox 2 - http://www.slimdevices.com/

Archive your CD collecition and stream to your hi-fi without loss of audio quality. Fantastic.

The first Squeezebox was apparently very good but lack of 802.11g network and no support for FLAC streaming meant that there was room for improvement.

The new one fixes pretty much everything that was wrong with the first one.

Specs:

Built-in 802.11g wireless networking
New support for lossless audio formats (incl. streaming of FLAC audio files)
High fidelity 24-bit Burr-Brown DAC
Stunning visualizers that move to the beat of your music
Audio crossfading, wireless bridging and more!

Full specs here - http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_specs.html

And all for less than £200.. bargain.

[homer simpson drooling noise/]

[Xaneden]

Thats novel to say the least. And it does give a lot for quite a respectable price.

Pity its out of my humble price range.

[5lab]

its not all that new tbh - creative, linksys and netgear all sell them - i've got the netgear one - picked it up 2nd hand for <£50!

[DsW]

The Squeezbox 2 was only announced on Friday last week - you don't get much newer than that! The first Squeezebox has been around for a couple of years, though.

A few others do make similar devices but the Squeezebox is generally regarded to be the daddy.

The Squeezebox server software (SlimServer) is also open source and they have a large active community contributing to it. That is a big plus point for me.

Especially with the new Burr-brown DAC, 802.11g and native FLAC support there isn't anything else out there that touches it (for that price).

SlimDevices take part in a lot of the discussion in their user community and that is their core product - unlike Creative or Linksys, to whom their media adapters are just another product line. Do you really see Creative reacting to feature suggestions posted on their user forums?!