Building a digital jukebox has been on the list for many months, and with other projects having priority, its still way down the list. I have researched the Squeezebox in the past, so over the weekend decided to order one and see how it works out. It arrived today and took a few pics.
The control is available for ethernet ($ 249) or wireless ($ 299), and a choice of Black or White. The SlimServer open Source software is available online at no charge, and uses Peral scripting. The decision was made to install the software on one of the Sun servers here, and the pc boxes would just access it over the network. Ken had spent many hours converting the CD collection and it is mostly completed, we now have access to 574 albums, with 5,500 songs, by 202 artist from all computers as well as the Squeezebox.
Since we have wireless, it was easy to set up and connect the box to the Halo C2 using a optical connection. Only took about 15 minutes to have it up and playing tunes. The software allows one to browse a music collection by albums, artist, artwork, genres, years, and a few others. The Squeezebox does some other cool stuff, still playing with it.
Have been listening to music for about 6 hours now, and the system is working perfectly with no problems. Will do some comparing the qulaity to the orignal CD at some point, but at this point if there is any great loss of quality, have not heard it so far. Having access to the collection and being able to program music for any lengthof listening period is nice to have. A link for the box is below for any interested in more info on it.
Squeezebox
