Logitech Squeezebox Network Media Player

Set the music free. Squeezebox plays a wide variety of digital music files, including uncompressed and lossless formats across a true 802.11g wireless network connection. Enjoy the widest choice of listening options beyond your music collection, including thousands of internet radio stations, Pandora's personalized music service and Rhapsody's 2 million song collection. It's music, your way.

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• Reviewed by: pepsidave14

  06-18-08

  Duration of ownership: 10 Days

  Strengths: Easy to install, sounds excellent.

  Weaknesses:A bit pricey, but ultimately worth it.

  Overall Evaluation: I did a bit of research on this before I bought it. Reviews on other websites said that it was very difficult for them to install. From my experience, it's really not. I followed the instructions step-by-step and got it working in about 15 minutes with no problems whatsoever. Sound quality is excellent. I hooked it up to my home theater system's receiver and now I can listen to my music in glorious 5.1. I actually picked this up to use it with Pandora's internet radio service. I have not actually set this up yet, but still plan on doing so down the line.

• Reviewed by: hertztough

  04-29-08

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  Strengths: 24-bit Burr-Brown DAC is lovely.Display is large and detailed.Interface is slick.SlimServer software is written in Perl, and can be modified to suit your preferences.

  Weaknesses:None; you can rewrite the software to fix any weaknesses!

  Overall Evaluation: I will split my review into several sections.SOUND QUALITY:This was the primary reason why I purchased the SqueezeBox. The difference between its sound output and my standard Sony CD player (from Best Buy) is as clear as night and day. Even my wife could tell the difference. The cheap DAC in my Sony CD player sounds harsh on the high notes, and it becomes tiresome to listen to female vocalists for several hours at a time. However, the SqueezeBox's 24-bit Burr-Brown DAC smoothed out all of these digital artifacts, and made it enjoyable to listen to all of my music.Even the build quality showed that no shortcuts were taken. The RCA line-out connectors are gold plated.INTERFACE:This feels very slick and well-designed. When you hit the end of a menu, and try to go farther, the display visually makes a bump to indicate that it received your command but cannot proceed. That is a very nice touch. You can also change the font size so that you can see the display from 20 feet away. Navigating my CD collection has never been easier.CUSTOMIZABILITY:In my opinion, this is the SqueezeBox's strongest advantage over its closed-source competitors. I am a programmer, so I can go into the server software and tweak anything I need to. Also, other hackers have created wonderful plug-ins that do all sorts of neat things, such as displaying the weather forecast when the unit is idle. Finally, I have even managed to make the server software run on a tiny Network-Attached-Storage device with a 133MHz processor and 32MB of RAM (which consumes a paltry 10 watts to run).CONCLUSION:With the great DAC built-in, this is better for a stereo application than any of the high-end sound cards on the market. If you are looking for a way to play the music from your computer (tip: use lossless rips from your CD's), look no further.

• Reviewed by: can0twait

  01-19-08

  Duration of ownership: 2 Weeks

  Strengths: Easy to install. Configures right out of the box with minimal instructions. Music selection could be done from PC or with the remote control.

  Weaknesses:None!!!

  Overall Evaluation: We recently looked into buying high-end speakers for our PC so that we can really enjoy our mp3s. But the office space is already stretched to the limit so finding room for extra speakers was next to impossible. The Squeezebox provided an absolutely marvelous solution to our problem since it does not have to be located any where near a PC and we already have a great home theater system!!! The Squeezebox not only allows you to play mp3s stored on a PC, but also to listen to Internet radio. We tried both wired and wireless connections and the Squeezebox performs very well in either case. We found the remote control to be as easy to use for changing/ selecting music as doing it from PC. One thing to keep in mind - if you leave the Squeezebox server running on your PC in an open FireFox window, FireFox will gobble up all the memory on your computer. However this is really a FireFox problem. If you keep the Squeezebox server running in the background there is no problem.

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