Having now had a Squeezebox duet since December 2009 I can now honestly say that it is by far the biggest waste of money I have ever come across - and I would happily pass that information on to anyone who asks me.
I can honestly say that in the time I have had it I dont think I have ever had a successfull full days listening without dropouts and failure to connect to mysb.com.
I even decided that it couldnt be this bad and got a replacement from the shop I purchased it in and .. lo and behold, it is if anything, worse. I now cannot listen to a song from Napster without a rebuffer every 10 seconds - and that is when it actually manages to connect to mysb.com (which for some reason is currently using the Washington server when I am in the UK). Why oh why do we have to use a remote server ???
This is the worst piece of kit I have seen - yet it promises so much. The fact that you have to use mysb.com has destroyed any integrity this product has.
I will be offloading it on ebay ... I have resigned myself to losing money on it but at the end of the day its no more use than a paperweight at the minute.
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2010-04-16, 13:29 #1Junior Member
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Squeezebox is officially the worst purchase I have ever made
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2010-04-16, 15:34 #2Senior Member
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Why don't you use a local SB Server instead? This should solve most, if not all the problems you have now (I know its not a perfect solution, but it works pretty well nonetheless).
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2010-04-16, 15:47 #3Senior Member
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It's too bad that SB hasn't worked for you. They work smoothly for me and I have one in every room of the house.
Originally Posted by ravinghill
As copperstate has pointed out, you do not have to connect to mysqueezebox.com, because you can run a local Squeezebox Server instead, and local SBS is usually more reliable. Also, the reason some intermediary is required for subscription services like Napster is because that's how they enforce their authorization. On a pc Napster does it via their own player, but that is obviously not an option with a SB.
Whether you decide to give SB another try or try another product, good luck.
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2012-05-08, 18:27 #4Junior Member
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[QUOTE=aubuti;536350]It's too bad that SB hasn't worked for you. They work smoothly for me and I have one in every room of the house.
Why would you have "one in every room of the house"? Seems like a waste.
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2012-05-08, 18:32 #5Senior Member
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Huh? This is one of the great advantages of SB systems. Music in every room, synched or not synched. Originally Posted by gmhead
Location 1: VortexBox Appliance 6TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet)
Location 2: VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio)
Office: Win7(64) > LMS 7.7.2 > SqueezePlay
Spares: VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER
Controllers: iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.7 on Win7(64) laptop
Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Spotify
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2012-05-09, 03:37 #6Senior Member
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One of the advantages of such a system is you can have as many or as few as you like. If you decide a year from now "gee, it would be nice to have audio in the xxx room" all you need is to add a SqueezeBox (with or without speakers, depending on ones needs). You're done, no running speaker wires to that room or figuring out how to control playback & volume in that room. It's all on the player simply connected to your WiFi. Originally Posted by gmhead
Same reason why some people have one TV or one car while others have three or more of each, just depends on what the user wants.
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2012-05-09, 04:15 #7Senior Member
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Simple as that, really. I've got one TV, that's actually one more than I need, so I'm thinking about selling it. I've got nine or ten guitars/basses, maybe I should sell the one or two that I play the least. But upgrading and hacking them is more fun.
And I've got five Squeezeboxes, and I'm using all of them at different times of the day/week. The Duet Receiver I use at work. The Touch in the living room. The Boom in the kitchen, great when doing the dishes. Two Radios in the bedroom give me and my SO the option to wake up to our favorite music in phase-psychedelic stereo.
We've also got ten or twelve forks in the kitchen drawer. That's five or six forks per mouth, go figure.
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2012-05-09, 04:28 #8Senior Member
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I'm just sorry I can't have two in every room in the house. Originally Posted by gmhead
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2012-05-09, 04:49 #9Senior Member
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I do have two in my office at the moment... Originally Posted by kidstypike
I'm just sorry I can't have two in every room in the house.
One Boom for playback and one Touch to control it
Yes, it will. Yes, all of them. Yes, SoftSqueeze as well. What ?
I SAID ALL OF THEM !
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2012-05-09, 05:02 #10Senior Member
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I do have two in the main room, a Touch for playback, synced to a Classic for it's analogue VU meters Originally Posted by andynormancx
I do have two in my office at the moment...
One Boom for playback and one Touch to control it
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