Originally posted by Eric A:
I agree with old_school. These devices have made a big change in really enjoying everyday listening of music. Just hit a button and your off and running with all the music you have ever purchased. Oddly they seem to be a tuff sell to people who have never used them.
The usual question is why spend $300 on a device like an SB when you can get a 20GB player that needs no computer and fits in your pocket.
The answer for me is lossless digital files (I use flac) and my cd collection spans more than 250 GB of hard drive space. Not sure we'll see portable devices with that kind of capacity in the near future.
I use a Sqeezebox (V3) with a little mac mini and it works great. It replaced a windows box with Foobar2000 and the interface is so much nicer, internet radio (Live 365, Radio IO etc) is easy to cue up, no need to have the monitor on (the computer yes, but heck the PVR's going 24/7). I just find it a great way to listen to my collection and discover new music with a minimum of headaches.
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