If you ever have wanted to bring your computer music or Internet music away from your computer and into your living room or other rooms in your home, you probably needed some soft of media center extender and had to run wires all over.
Well Logitech has made that process easy with the Squeezebox boom. The Squeezebox boom uses the Squeezenetwork, to bring internet radio stations such as Live365 and Last.fm into your home and away from the computer. It also uses software on your computer (Optional install) to bring your music collection be it iTunes music or just a collection of your MP3s to the Squeezebox Boom, and it does it with out wires over your wireless network.
I received my Squeezebox boom yesterday an I immediately grew attached to it. It’s an elegant piece of equipment that is easy to set up and use.
Setting up the Squeezebox boom, as i said is very easy. All you really do is sign up for an account at Squeezenetwork.com where you can also sign up for third party services that can stream music to your Squeezebox boom.
Then you can download their software this option is completely optional, but the software is needed to share the music files on your computer. Once you have the account set up, you just turn on the squeezebox boom and follow the directions on LCD screen on the boom.
You will be given an option to choose to connect to your wireless or wired network. If you chose the wired network option then just plug her into your router, but if you choose wireless you need to enter your wep key if you have one. Once you are on your network there really isn’t much more to do except connect to the squeezenetwork. To do this you must link your Squeezebox boom to your account. You o this by a providing the Squeezenetwork with a pin code that your boom will display at the end of the setup process.
That pretty much is it and it’s done in less than 5 minutes even when entering the wep key manually. Hopefully Logitech ill make it easier to get connected to protected networks in the near future.
If you chose to install the Squeezenetwork software you will have to tell it where your music files are stored, but it will detect your iTunes collection automatically. It doesn’t seem to support Zune though. If you have a Rhapsody account you can enter your login info at Squeezenetwork.com and it will stream your music. The software is web browser based and is really easy to use and navigate. But what bugged me a little about the software was that I could not get it to access any of my network drives. I have loads of music on my HP Mediasmart Homeserver that I can’t access via the software.
If you have an iPod or a Zune you can connect it to the Squeezebox boom via a line in cable, I tried this with my Zune and it worked perfectly.
Using the squeezebox it self is easy, navigation is easy although it does take some time to get use too, for example I always thought the big dial on a stereo system as the volume dial and only the volume dial, but on the squeezebox boom it’s the navigation dial, enter button and volume dial, so once you remember that you will have no issues. It even comes with a remote that is easy to use.
For those of you like me who need a little ambient noise to fall asleep, the squeezebox offers dozens of natural sounds and even musical sounds to help you get some shut eye, my favorite is the raining sound. I just find the sound of rain soothing.
For those of you who need help waking up, the squeezebox boom also doubles as an alarm clock. You can schedule the alarm to only go off on certain days orevery day at different times which I think is pretty cool, since I never have to be up at the same time eveyday.
Overall the Squeezebox boom is amazing and I recomend it for everyone, although the $299 price tag may be a little high for som it’s definetly worth every penny. For more information about the squeezebox boom click here.
We award the Logitech Squeezebox boom our 5 Star Must Have Award.
Comments: (7)
Broady on Fri, Nov 07th, 2008 at 01:48 PM
be nice if it could locate music on your network.
Michael on Fri, Nov 07th, 2008 at 01:58 PM
Yeah but it does let you play your sirus subscription on it which is cool, but it does it over the web.
Michael on Sun, Nov 09th, 2008 at 03:25 PM
Someone asked me where can they find the pin?
There are two firmware updates you can find it after the 2nd firmwre update automatically
If you still can’t find the pin, it is located in settings.
host on Tue, Nov 25th, 2008 at 03:54 AM
Nice article.I have never heard this before.
müzik dinle on Fri, May 21st, 2010 at 07:57 AM
If you still can’t find the pin, it is located in settings.
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Facebook Application on Mon, Jul 26th, 2010 at 02:02 AM
does anyone know how to put music from the internet into a blank cd using a program. im not sure about limewire i heard it gives viruses.. could anyone give me some suggestions if you have any. thank you very muchFacebook application
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