Streaming Audio part 2
November 25, 2009
The Squeezebox Radio arrived yesterday, and straight away all work was abandoned to tackle the setup.
The Squeezebox range need a piece of software called SqueezeCenter running on a computer or on NAS (Networked Attached Storage) where you store all your music. This may sound a bit complicated for some but to be honest it just sounds a bit daunting if you’ve never done it. Squeezebox also allows you to setup an online account, called mysqueezebox.com which among other things, allows you to arrange internet radio stations in a favourites folder, log on to 3rd party add-ons, such as MP3 Music Locker, to keep our music files stored online. Your Squeezebox then logs onto this account and has access to this information.
My setup was aided by the fact that we already had a Squeezebox running in the office, with the SqueezeCenter software installed on our NAS. The unit was up and running after 5 minutes, I simply plugged in the power and input the key for my wireless network. It immediately recognised the music library on our office NAS and on my laptop, which also had the software running on it. I was playing MP3s within that 5 minutes. The large rubber knob on the front can be used for all navigation, other than volume, and this makes shifting through the music files a breeze. Next I input my logon details for mysqueezebox.com and immediately the box showed me my favourite internet radio stations. All in all the setup was painless and over too soon for me. I enjoy the geeky setup process.
The unit sits on a display cabinet in our showroom and is the main radio for that office, most of the time it plays a mix of internet radio but from time to time it’s used for some new MP3s that one of us have added to the music folder on our network. My one complaint with the setup is that once you add MP3s to the music folder you need to do a manual rescan of the folder for them to show up on the device. There is probably some way to set a daily rescan I just haven’t found out how to yet.
Unfortunately I’ve just found out that the Squeezebox Touch I ordered will not be in stock until the new year. This unit was to be installed at home so being the impatient type I may change this to a Squeezebox Duet.
Next I need to see can it pick up my podcast subscriptions.
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