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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Your House could be an iPod

Why do you like your iPod?  (or iPhone Music Player)

Capacity?  Someplace to put all your music and have it in one place?
Convenience?  It's easy to look up and play whatever your heart desires, or shuffle everything together, or only Christmas songs, etc.?
Simplicity?  I mean, all you have to do is hit "shuffle songs" and music comes out.

I want to tell you about my new most-wanted item.  Why?  It is an improvement over my haXXed iPod.



The Logitech Squeezebox Touch


It's an iPod for your HOUSE.

I have way more music than I could ever store on one iPod.  (Not to mention, I store it losslessly.)  I actually bought a 1TB drive for just that reason: I wanted to put all my music in one place.  The sad part?  It's not all hands-on anymore.  I listen to CDs often, but some of my albums, I don't have on CD.  I have to either
-Deal with the hum of my PC and run a cable to my USB DAC, or
-Plug my iPod into my stereo system, as long as my iPod has the album on it, and deal with a lower quality.
(Don't even get me started on my iPod's battery life.)

I also like last.fm and internet radio.  It's fair to say I am sick of regular radio at this point, and those two are my escape.  The ONLY way to access those is by turning on the PC and leaving it on while I listen.  Likewise, I only get last.fm downstairs on my stereo system, through my Xbox.

Think about the cool factor of a touchscreen attached to your entertainment center that controls all of your music.

The Squeezebox will either have my 1TB hard drive plugged into it, or I will hang my 1TB drive on the network and never look at it again.  It has a REMOTE CONTROL, so I never have to touch it when I want to skip a song (despite the name).  It will have access to ALL of my music, all of the time.  Convenient.  All for cheaper than a 64Gb iPod Touch.
(A bonus: it can play FLAC files, even 24/96k files, without the HAX I needed for my iPod.)
(An additional bonus: It CAN be modified for control by an iPod/iPad.  If that's your thing.)

Screw a new computer.  This is a music interface that gets me off my little PC and LISTENING.  Hell yes.

Hey, Santa.  Got one of these in your bag for me?
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