Dear Squeezebox, still love you

[ChristianST]

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[gruntwolla]

+ 1 on all the above. I often get the house to myself during the day,so although I have no excuse for not doing my share of the housework, the chores are a lot less mundane when I synchronise a couple of Squeezeboxes and play some loud jazz/rock.

Combine that with the ability to play almost anything on demand,to be able to experiment with new music,to be able to sit in my favourite chair and within seconds be playing anything from my own collection,to witness my 9 year old son berating his Mum for watching too much TV, and not listening to enough music, and finally how good parties are with Squeezeboxen.

Love is perhaps too strong an emotion, but Squeezeboxes are for me the best and most used gadget I have ever bought.
Trev

[Grumpy Bob]

Agree with OP. I started with an SB3 after reading a review in Linux Format. Since then my listening has been almost exclusively digital. I have even digitised the majority of my LP collection. Now I have (as well as the SB3) two Radios and listen via software emulators on two computers and via Squeezepad and iPeng on the iPad. Squeezepad is particularly fun for guests to browse the music collection.
I now run LMS 7.7.1 on a QNAP NAS. I've never had issues with SBS in its various versions, other than alarms on the SBR defaulting to disco. All is excellent on LMS 7.7.1.
Will soon buy a Touch, I think.

[trotsky10]

Ditto.

Nice to see some appreciation rather than just problems on a forum.

Have had the original SB3 since 2006 and still love it. The squeezebox radio is in the bedroom but gets carried to the kitchen and garden when needed for dinners or bbq.

I couldn't live without them!

[Eliot Rosewater]

Word.

Go to the blog post (http://blog.logitech.com/2012/03/01/...ch-squeezebox/) that Wigster posted and put your OP in a comment to the blog post. Can't hurt to have the Logitech marketing people read what you posted.

[dennis55]

great to hear that we're all still enjoying the music via our varied SqueezeBoxes..........

look at my sig and it tells the tale..got rid of a lot of my Linn gear including a fine Ikemi cd spinner for the Transporter which was/is an inspired creation by Slim Devices team.

we musn't forget all the folks who continue to improve our enjoyment of the system like Triode and Erland....the BBCIPLAYER is my most used "app" for catching up on BBCR4,BBCR3 and BBC4XTRA.

cheers

dennis

[Benefactor]

My wife and I are addicted to our squeezeboxes.

They've completely changed the way we enjoy music.

Squeezeboxes are easily the best money spent on home entertainment ever, and that is coming from a technology-geek who has purchased countless electronic toys and gizmos (also a lot of high-end audio gear) over the years.

Nothing else to add...I just wanted to be part of this thread in some way.

[bluegaspode]

The Squeezebox obviously caught me as well.

I originally had to choose between Logitech Squeezebox and Philips Streamium. And I did the right choice.

I started with a Duet and soon discovered that the Duet Controller runs a Linux and was programmable. Hey - so I started to hack it and the Headphone Switcher + Weather Forecast Applets soon saw the light.

I the meantime the Radio was announced and it took it's place in the bedroom while a Boom sneaked into my home office.

Obviously the iPad came along my way and wanting to improve my Squeezebox experience my first (and still last iPad) App saw the light. Wow more than a year has passed since and I don't know anymore how Radio #2 and #3 made it into kitchen and bathroom

As I'm moving now into a new flat there will be one new spare room ... guess what will be one of the first new items to be bought only for this room!

[pablolie]

i do very much hope Logitech keeps evolving the concept - think slim, think audio quality as a huge priority.

there are shortcomings with the user interface, which puts basic and rigid data first; and interaction with and dynamic management of music not quite so.

but i can't see another product i could use to replace my SB, and i think it'd be tragically silly of Logitech to abandon or reinvent the concept against some other flawed premise (such as the revue, which i bought and gave away).

[JonWill]

Just felt I should add my love... Used from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to sleep - loved by the children (and used by the 5 year old up) - they have totally transformed my relationship with music.

After becoming a grown up I lost the "space" for music in my life which I have only just rediscovered... and am now spending more time and money on it!