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Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2010
I hope that when Everett grows up and remembers about his early childhood, that one of the things he’ll say is “My house was filled with music.” In other words, I’ve been spending some quality time on paternity leave rocking my Squeezebox. One of the coolest things about the Squeezebox is the fact that it’s [...]
Posted in General on Feb 28th, 2010
I’ve had a Squeezebox as my digital music system for over three years now; it’s still one of the best few hundred bucks I’ve ever spent on electronics. The Squeezebox’s server software runs on a server. Since 2006, I’ve been using an old Dell Dimension 2350 that we had lying around. But this weekend, I [...]
Posted in General on Nov 10th, 2009
… don’t get along so nicely. How vexing.
Posted in General on Jul 19th, 2008
UPDATE: OK, turns out the culprit was my dying Linksys BEFW11S4 router, which started choking as soon as I enabled WPA. iPeng is now chugging along like a champ, and I’m in iPod-Squeezebox remote control heaven. Thanks, Coolio! Molly got an iPod Touch last week, and so the first thing I tried to make it [...]
Posted in General on Mar 4th, 2008
The SlimDevices team made a final release of SqueezeCenter 7 today. SqueezeCenter (formerly SlimServer) is the open-source music library/player at the heart of the amazing Squeezebox digital music player. SqueezeCenter 7 is a massive, game-changing improvement on the old SlimServer software, which was no slouch. The biggest change is a seriously overhauled user interface, which [...]
Posted in General on Nov 15th, 2006
Just about two months ago I took the plunge, bought a SlimDevices Squeezebox network music player and finally committed to digitizing my music collection. Here’s a two-month report. First of all, a quick rundown on my setup. I’ve got: A Squeezebox 3 digital music player, connected to… A pile of unremarkable cheapo stereo components in [...]
Posted in General on Sep 17th, 2006
After many months of hemming and hawing, I finally took the plunge and committed to going digital with my music collection. I ordered a 500GB external hard drive and a Squeezebox to wirelessly connect my digital music up to my stereo. The drive will run off Molly’s existing desktop computer in the office/guest room. But [...]
