Dear Squeezebox, still love you

[kc5f]

And yet another... I think the poster who mentioned being addicted to them had it spot on. I use mine all the time, too, and am constantly showing them off to other folks who never knew things like this existed. I've reached my limit of units for the house, but if a replacement for the Boom ever comes out I don't think it will take long to find an excuse to need another!

[RonM]

Count me in, too.

I had long pined for a way to play digitized music through my stereo system, other than by burning CDs. I stumbled upon the Duet somewhere, and the rest all followed.

Original Duet replaced by a Transporter sourced on eBay, with that Duet in storage pending future need. Second Duet services music needs on the home theater system. Two Booms in active use in various places, usually outside on the verandah and my home office. A third is in storage against future needs, bought from the UK with a European plug (I'm in Canada), when another Boom dies, I will use its plug).

I bought a spare Controller when Logitech Canada sold them cheap (against future needs again), but often find myself using the app for the BlackBerry playbook to control the system.

I love this system, and can't imagine my musical life without it. Or something similar.

Am writing this on vacation in Belize, sitting on my deck watching the Caribbean and the light rain, listening to music on my Boom, run through a direct wifi connection to my netbook (what win7 calls an "ad hoc" connection), which contains my entire music collection converted to high end mp3s from lossless.

Ron

[GeeJay]

I share the love. The Squeezebox line has allowed me to rediscover my passion for music I lost somewhere in early adulthood. I have spent more money on music in the last 5 years than I did in the previous 20, counter to what is happening to the industry in general. I hope Logitech stays committed to the line, because I fear any alternative will just be a dumbed-down one-trick pony compared to what I've experienced with Squeezebox.

[Shredder]

I love these products. I own 3 SB3s and a Transporter. I will soon be buying a Touch and will certainly be excited by any new products. Please do not drop these products (I can't imagine you would, but many on the forums are nervous).

[your momo]

I can also add my voice here, SB just changed my life six years ago. I had a hard start with the server, as a complete newbee in network, but the music love was stronger. In the mean time I listened all of them an appreciate the quality of each. Today lineup is thin as never, but I look positively toward a bright futur...

[Squeezemenicely]

Ok, just added a SB Radio to my collection. I really hope that Logitech will continue the SB line.
It is such a great product.

I definitely listen to more music than before - and my CD player is getting jealous, since the SBs are getting so much more attention.

[maggior]

I definitely listen to more music than before - and my CD player is getting jealous, since the SBs are getting so much more attention.

My CD players are suffering from complete neglect. They could get up and walk out and I wouldn't even notice. Don't think they'd be too happy about that :-).

Seriously, I haven't listened to a CD since I have my squeezeboxes. My CD players are still in my systems only because it would be extra work to disconnect them and take them out.

[Mushroom_3]

Like all the posters above, my life has been transformed by the Squeezebox system since 2006 and my first SB3 (now used by my son). I bought another (now in the loft as a spare), then a Boom (in use) and a Duet (now used by my brother and not missed!). I also have 3 Touch's and 2 Radio's in constant use. I must point out that I would not have so many if it wasn't for Triode's BBC and iPlayer plugins - I hope Logitech appreciate his efforts as much as some of us do.

Apart from my computer's DVD drive, I don't have a CD player anymore.

[jimzak]

Same here. CDs were getting pretty tedious toward the middle of the last decade. Despite my huge collection, I wasn't listening to much music.

Fast forward to 2008, when I decided it was time to take the music server plunge for so many reasons: multiple room coverage, easy access, etc.

While it has not been without it's temporary pitfalls, the experience with SB has been wonderful: I have listened to almost 30,000 files a year since then and enjoyed the process of building the system with the help of this online community.

I can't wait for whatever the future of SB is, even if it's just using the players I have now.

PS SB Booms are going for $450-600 USD on eBay.

Jim

[Squeezemenicely]

Well, I am an avid CD collector - still buying a lot of them and have about 3000 of them, plus 1000 albums on my server. So my CDplayer is still doing it's work. But, less and less.
To be honest it is just so great to be able to go through your stuff using iPeng.

But what would happen to those rows and rows of CDboxes, I mostly have classical and opera and they come with nice boxes and libretto's.
They are sort of my appartements decoration - I like fiddling about with them. So now I have begun ripping all my symphonic stuff, guess what strangely I now listen to mostly symphonic music ;-)
The SB started just for Jazz and anything modern - that I only had as digital files - but now it is taking over more and more.

Theoretically I could rip all my music - would take for ever - and have a lot of space. Then instead of books I could only have my kindle.
Guess my appartment would be pretty empty. I am not ready for that yet (maybe never).
But it could still be that I rip more and more... Then the files and the discs could still coexist, whilst my cdplayer gathers dust.
I also have books on my kindle that I have standing in my shelf - reading on the kindle is also easier.

The only bad thing about files is the tagging, I guess I could retag files every day till I die and they still would not be perfect ;-)