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| Topic: | Network music player This thread has 19 replies. Displaying posts 16 through 20. |
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| Post 16 made on Friday April 29, 2005 at 15:36 |
rlustig Advanced Member |
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Directv has always offered less than fully capable TIVO units. The HR10-250 is no exception. I have read about some hacks to open up the DirecTivo to the full feature set, but have never tried it.
I have both a DirecTivo and a standalone Tivo series 2. I am dfinatley going to try to integrate the Series 2 as a music server. Sounds cool.
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| Post 17 made on Wednesday May 4, 2005 at 11:07 |
jdanforth Long Time Member |
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I use the Squeezebox at home running off of a 500GB Windows 2000 Server P3-500 machine. Since I'm a Crestron programmer (but can't afford their hardware!), I'm a big fan of simple but sophisticated control.
The Squeezebox has a GREAT UI if you're sitting in front of it with the remote control. The web interfaces are generally good and I use the Touch interface to operate mine off of an old Icebox touch-screen kitchen flip-down LCD.
There is a Crestron module out there that somebody wrote but I haven't tried it.
The Squeezebox is a perfect solution for someone that already has a collection of music (especially if it's in strange/proprietary formats like Apple Lossless (everything of mine), Ogg, FLAC, etc.). For our customers, we install Audio Request units since the customers usually don't have a music collection already stored somewhere.
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| Post 18 made on Wednesday May 4, 2005 at 19:52 |
jonnyt Long Time Member |
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seconded regarding the squeezebox
they're a truly brilliant device - of course, this is assuming you have a pc that you can leave on to store all you're music (you can even use propriatory NAS boxes as some of those run on linux and so does the slimp3 / squeezebox software)
you can also use the slimp3 box to display caller ID, how many emails you have in, and its not tooooo difficult to do.
can anyone tell i really like this product? if you've not had the chance to have a proper play with one, i cant recomend it highly enough.
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| Post 19 made on Thursday May 5, 2005 at 16:40 |
cgoold Long Time Member |
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Onkyo Makes a product called a Nettune. It is integrated into some of the higher end Integra receivers and there is also a stand alone unit. The standalone unit is very affordable and it works great. It has a small led screen on the front that you could use to operate it without a monitor if you wanted. I beleive the model# is NC-500.
Chad
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| Post 20 made on Thursday May 5, 2005 at 17:44 |
tippy-tie Long Time Member |
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CHAD is an onkyo fan...... imagine that! :-)
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