In my case, the PC happens to be nearly silent, but a fairly ordinary PC with much higher noise would be perfectly usable as the music server. Of course, if you use the PC for things other than just the music server role, then low noise is still nice to have. When there is high network traffic, the Squeezebox does occasionally stutter or lose the signal while playing music.
I expect a faster wireless modem would eliminate the problem, but it happened too rarely for me to feel compelled to replace the D-link router with a faster one. The 64 megabit buffer in the Squeezebox probably helps with adverse network conditions. The other alternative is to run a hard wire to the Squeezebox for Mbps. SlimServer 6. It opens up in your browser window. On Windows XP, installation is simple.
The software is slightly kludgy, in my view, but functional. It appears to be under continuous development, and you can even download nightly releases. The current version at time of writing is 6. One notable limitation of the SilmServer software is that only a single music folder can be used. Using the current largest hard drive GB dedicated entirely to music would limit you to about 1, CDs in FLAC, which should be plenty for most people.
If you need more storage capacity, you can always use RAID, which is a readily available feature in so many motherboards these days. As mentioned before, the remote and display are easy to use once the setup is complete. You scroll through the music folders, albums or even songs, select what you want, get it playing, and then add to the playlist even as the music is going.
You can search through your music, using keys to enter text like on a cell phone. You can even randomize the play order within an album or among albums or in a play list. The remote. You can also create playlists with SlimServer at your PC. This task is much more convenient from the PC than with the remote, especially if you are picking out individual songs in long playlists.
The response to commands on the remote control are almost always instantaneous, whether starting play, switching to another tune, or stopping. The only time there is any lag is during setup when the Squeezebox seeks for the SlimServer on the network.
One expects some hysterisis, especially with the wireless connection and the hard drive, but there is rarely any delay. It is the way remotes are supposed to work, right? In the meantime, it is possible to burn your iTunes Music Store songs to CD and re-rip them as unprotected. This suggested transcoding will affect quality a bit, although you could just as easily rip to WAV.
There are apparently several software tools that can do this without affecting quality or needing to burn an intermediate disc. The quick answer is, Very good. I arranged to have my wife switch back and forth between the two sources with the same piece of music while I listened out of sight of the controls; I could not consistently identify which was which. Coming from an idiophile background, I feel compelled to give you all the caveats and conditions.
They were not identical, there were subtle differences that varied from recording to recording, and from track to track, but neither sound source stood out as being clearly better or worse. A puny wallwart ships with the Squeezebox 3.
Having said all that, in general, the half dozen people who listened at least somewhat critically to a wide variety of music on my system could not hear any real difference between CD on the Rotel and the WAV files through the Squeezebox. They expressed delight at both the high quality of sound reproduction and the sheer convenience of not having to flip through CDs or reorganize the mess of CDs and covers at the end of a party or extended listening session. The headphone output was also tried with Grado SR60 headphones, which sound very nice, much better than the low price tag would suggest.
The sound was not outstanding, but decent, certainly on par with or better than headphone feeds from PC sound cards or most mid-fi audio gear. Plugging the headphone into the mini jack on the back does not cut the output to the line level phono jacks or to the digital outputs. I mentioned earlier that I would only comment on the sound of the Squeezebox with uncompressed files made from CDs. The reason I am uninterested in MP3s is that, generally, their flaws are too easily heard on my audio system.
MP3s at kbps bit rate are said to be virtually indistinguishable from CD. Variable bit rate MP3s also are promising. Access is directly through the network to your broadband Internet connection. Simply scroll through the menu to Internet Radio, then select from what Slim Devices says are thousands of station choices from ShoutCast , Radioio and Live Here are some basics:. The variety of formats is mindboggling, and you can sample a wider range of music this way than with any normal range of stations that you can tune in via broadcast FM.
Some stations are truly and utterly unique. The PC that is being used as the music server for the Squeezebox is my main computer. This PC has no problems handling the music server tasks while I work at it, editing images in Photoshop, surfing the web, and writing articles. Turning the Squeezebox on and playing music hardly changes this. The most normal load on this PC is multitasking with Photoshop 8, my email software, surfing the web with several tabs open in Firebox, writing articles in Dreamweaver, and folding home running constantly.
There is never any sign of Squeezebox or SlimServer misbehavior in these conditions. A few glitches or dropouts occurred mostly with Internet radio when there was a lot of web activity on this and other computers on the network at the same time. There were a few instances when the network connection broke down for no apparent reason, but they were rare and the connection was easily restored by either having the Squeezebox find the server again or unplugging the unit from the AC altogether and running through the network setup, without changing any of the previous settings.
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