Squeezebox
 Squeezebox
[slimdevices.com] is a dedicated piece of hardware for streaming music
directly to your audio equipment to listen music without compromise. It's
a little device placed next to your audio setup, just like any other audio
component (CD-player, tuner, etc.) and allows you to read music files
stored on a central location. This is also his only task: Squeezebox doesn't
have any built in amplifiers or, worse, speakers, so you are free to choose
those audio components.
It depends on a server application, Slimserver.
Slimserver is Open Source software and can be loaded on top of any popular
operating systems like Linux, Windows or OS-X (Mac). It has also a built-in
wireless receiver and a high quality digital/analog (D/A) converter.
Squeeze is able to play the lossless flac codec,
so not a drop of audio information is spilled, delivering the maximum
of music directly into your audio set.
What makes Squeezebox unique is the fact that you can make use of an
external D/A converter to further enhance
the quality of your audio chain. In fact, the level of quality solely
depends on this. Choose whatever you like and how far your financial reserves
let you and you can play well with the big boys in the high
end arena...
Typical benefits of the Squeezebox are:
- Stream your centrally stored music to your audio equipment
- Plays multiple codecs like flac, mp3, ogg
and many more
- All your music available through one remote control; this includes
browsing, searching and selecting playlists
- Listen wireless
- High quality digital/analog convert or (Burr-Brown), can be even
enhanced further into high end by bypassing the internal convert or
with an external one
- Depends only on open protocols (wireless, streaming), so there's no
vendor lockin or what so ever
- Several Squeezeboxes can be combined and can play music in a synchronized
way
- Internet radio, news, and more!
Squeezebox can also be emulated by SoftSqueeze,
giving exactly the same functionality as the hardware counterpart, but
then a PC.
See also: Squeezebox tested with
Entech (blog)
Advanced Audio Architecture
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