in addition to the digital output, the DAC used in the squeezebox (24 bit Burr-Brown DAC) is actually of a very high quality. If you own a standalone DAC, probably use that. Likewise if you spent a mint on a serious preamplifier. Otherwise, the analog outputs are not a limitation.
The concept of plugging a wireless squeezebox directly into a pair of powered speakers delights me much. I've taken the one in my house from the living room to my bedroom with a set of headphones. a terrabyte of music in the size of a hardback book. (you do have to plug it in the wall, you do have to use the remote to control playback. you can not leave your (or a) wireless network (duh).)
I am familiar with both the Sonos system and Niles/ Russound/other lines. I'm curious as to what type of setup you have, and how much cheaper you were able to achieve it.
number of zones? number and type of sources? wiring?
In specific cases, its possible that another solution is cheaper, but it seems to be that above 3 or 4 zones, the Sonos is competitively priced.
it also depends on what typeand amount of existing networked music data you have.
Of course, an innumnerable number of factors go into that final decision, which is why I ask for more information.
--kevin (not affiliated with any of the above companies, nor any other manufacturer of consumer goods)
this is not "secret"--and don't even mention secure--as you're "obscure" URL will be showing up as the refer in the webserver logs. And a lot of sites generate stats dirctly from these logs (or just dump them to a web-viewable file). Should google crawl to one of these stats pages, you'll soon find your bookmarks showing up in searches for.. whatever it is you're bookmarking.
Sure, use robots.txt to solve some of that dilemma, but that won't keep a person from following the link on his own. I admit that i obsessively check out most of my refers:)
a "secret" page really can't have any links (outside your machine).
Though I'm sure none of those words are nearly as common in everyday usage as McDonald's 'Smile'(tm)...
'Smile' (tm) *almost* makes sense when you compare it to one of McDonald's other trademarks: 'Hey' (tm)
as an aside, does anyone recall a site that hosted a feature that would randomly display McD's trademarks, as well as one that would display a random domain owned by Procter & Gamble? It was mind-blowingly inane.
Oh - don't forget that Napster was designed to be a _legal_ service, _N_ew _A_rtist _P_rogram - it wasn't made to shift copyright materials around the 'net.
err.. Napster was named because Sean (Shawn?)'s nickname on IRC, etc has always been 'napster'. im sure somewhere on this crazy internet it is even told how he got it.
and, while New Artist Program may be a snazzy marketing gimmick/ coincidence, it wouldnt make much of a basis for a nickname for a seventh grade kid who falls asleep in social studies.:p
As it stands under a popular vote, the 5 largest states could single-handedly dictate to the rest of the states, which is unacceptable for obvious reasons.
are you basing this on the assumption that its possible one candidate would get all votes in those 5 states? please.
half the time electoral college supporters say "look! it almost always works out to be very similar to the popular vote!" and the other half of the time they say "the electoral college is not like the popular vote because its better"
seems to me you can't have your cake and eat it, too.
and we all know there's going to be some general poo-pooing for quite awhile if one candidate gets office with fewer actual votes than the loser.
--kevin
I voted nader; this isnt gambling...there's no swarthy Italian looking to break your knees if you're wrong.
Sony Exec, senior year: "Lessee... I've got my 600 level business course, Electronics Thesis, Intro to upper-level management, and I just managed to squeeeze into 'creating a thriving black-market for Dummies'. should be a full year."
insightful humor, no less. --kevin occasionally, i reserve the right to say something.
I think that you will soon (within 5 years) see legislation passed on the federal level requiring all servers residing on USA soil to use the.us top level domain name. This would impact all commercial, government, non-profit and military organizations.
There's no reason I can think of that this shouldn't be implemented immediately. While one's browser is being setup, after they specify their country they should be asked 'would you like your two-letter country code attached by default to URLs you enter?' Then as far as anyone who wants to ignore the change is concerned, they can. yahoo.com is still yahoo.com[.us] and yahoo.jp is still yahoo.jp. if such a thing exists...
hell, they're already doing it with the http:// and some browsers already assume.com (if you don't specify).
better yet, they could just do what lynx does. if i type in 'idearecords.com' and 'idearecords.com.us' doesnt exist, it should start checking down a list according to my native tongue / browsing habits. (.com.uk,.com.ca,.com.au, for example (and yes, i realize.com.uk, etc isnt YET the convention)). doesn't seem like too much to ask. allows us americans to maintain our superiority complex and our ignorance....without dragging others down.
Don't tell me what we're doing is legal. It isn't, and shouldn't be. But I do it anyway because I love music but detest paying $18/cd
Oh, please. I hear this all the time. ATTENTION! If you pay $18 for a CD you are a MORON. You know what this means? that you're buying Britney Spears at Border's. Hell, even Border's marks down new releases to $13 or so. (and $13 is still more than you need to pay)
I probably buy 15-20 CDs/year (and pirate none), and have not since the mid 90's paid more than $10 for a CD. rare and import albums exempt. buy used, buy online, use coupons, use ebay, buy something thats not top-40. shop best buy (altho their prices are rising, too). (or move out of canada)
saying that all CDs cost $18 makes you sound like a fool.
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in addition to the digital output, the DAC used in the squeezebox (24 bit Burr-Brown DAC) is actually of a very high quality. If you own a standalone DAC, probably use that. Likewise if you spent a mint on a serious preamplifier. Otherwise, the analog outputs are not a limitation.
The concept of plugging a wireless squeezebox directly into a pair of powered speakers delights me much. I've taken the one in my house from the living room to my bedroom with a set of headphones. a terrabyte of music in the size of a hardback book. (you do have to plug it in the wall, you do have to use the remote to control playback. you can not leave your (or a) wireless network (duh).)
--kevin
I am familiar with both the Sonos system and Niles/ Russound/other lines. I'm curious as to what type of setup you have, and how much cheaper you were able to achieve it.
number of zones? number and type of sources? wiring?
In specific cases, its possible that another solution is cheaper, but it seems to be that above 3 or 4 zones, the Sonos is competitively priced.
it also depends on what typeand amount of existing networked music data you have.
Of course, an innumnerable number of factors go into that final decision, which is why I ask for more information.
--kevin
(not affiliated with any of the above companies, nor any other manufacturer of consumer goods)
this is not "secret"--and don't even mention secure--as you're "obscure" URL will be showing up as the refer in the webserver logs. And a lot of sites generate stats dirctly from these logs (or just dump them to a web-viewable file). Should google crawl to one of these stats pages, you'll soon find your bookmarks showing up in searches for .. whatever it is you're bookmarking.
:)
Sure, use robots.txt to solve some of that dilemma, but that won't keep a person from following the link on his own. I admit that i obsessively check out most of my refers
a "secret" page really can't have any links (outside your machine).
'Smile' (tm) *almost* makes sense when you compare it to one of McDonald's other trademarks:
'Hey' (tm)
as an aside, does anyone recall a site that hosted a feature that would randomly display McD's trademarks, as well as one that would display a random domain owned by Procter & Gamble? It was mind-blowingly inane.
--kevin
err.. Napster was named because Sean (Shawn?)'s nickname on IRC, etc has always been 'napster'. im sure somewhere on this crazy internet it is even told how he got it.
and, while New Artist Program may be a snazzy marketing gimmick/ coincidence, it wouldnt make much of a basis for a nickname for a seventh grade kid who falls asleep in social studies. :p
--kevin
are you basing this on the assumption that its possible one candidate would get all votes in those 5 states? please.
half the time electoral college supporters say "look! it almost always works out to be very similar to the popular vote!" and the other half of the time they say "the electoral college is not like the popular vote because its better"
seems to me you can't have your cake and eat it, too.
and we all know there's going to be some general poo-pooing for quite awhile if one candidate gets office with fewer actual votes than the loser.
--kevin
I voted nader; this isnt gambling...there's no swarthy Italian looking to break your knees if you're wrong.
Sony Exec, senior year: "Lessee... I've got my 600 level business course, Electronics Thesis, Intro to upper-level management, and I just managed to squeeeze into 'creating a thriving black-market for Dummies'. should be a full year."
insightful humor, no less.
--kevin
occasionally, i reserve the right to say something.
There's no reason I can think of that this shouldn't be implemented immediately. While one's browser is being setup, after they specify their country they should be asked 'would you like your two-letter country code attached by default to URLs you enter?' Then as far as anyone who wants to ignore the change is concerned, they can. yahoo.com is still yahoo.com[.us] and yahoo.jp is still yahoo.jp.
if such a thing exists...
hell, they're already doing it with the http:// and some browsers already assume .com (if you don't specify).
better yet, they could just do what lynx does. if i type in 'idearecords.com' and 'idearecords.com.us' doesnt exist, it should start checking down a list according to my native tongue / browsing habits. (.com.uk, .com.ca, .com.au, for example (and yes, i realize .com.uk, etc isnt YET the convention)). doesn't seem like too much to ask. allows us americans to maintain our superiority complex and our ignorance....without dragging others down.
--kevin
Oh, please. I hear this all the time.
ATTENTION! If you pay $18 for a CD you are a MORON. You know what this means? that you're buying Britney Spears at Border's. Hell, even Border's marks down new releases to $13 or so. (and $13 is still more than you need to pay)
I probably buy 15-20 CDs/year (and pirate none), and have not since the mid 90's paid more than $10 for a CD. rare and import albums exempt. buy used, buy online, use coupons, use ebay, buy something thats not top-40. shop best buy (altho their prices are rising, too). (or move out of canada)
saying that all CDs cost $18 makes you sound like a fool.