How does it stream music files you own? Is there a software app you install on a PC like Squeezebox?
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Hi, no custom software is needed. However, your media player software on your pc, mac, or media server must support dnla / upnp.
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Hello, I actually don't know how to explain this well, so I will try and give it a shot. All that I do is hook it up to my laptop, play music from ITunes or Spotify, and plug in the 2 Sony Speakers I have and it's like having music anywhere around the house. Does that help?
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unfortunately, this is the one feature that the unit lacks, which is somewhat odd since it has all the hardware support to accomplish this, e.g., a USB port. It would be fairly simple to add this feature with updated firmware. The alternative is to install some some software on an "always on" PC or mac, which the siesta flow locates via WiFi and stream your music collection that way. The good news is the firmware can be updated via the internet, so perhaps future updates will include this.
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Yes it can. I use QNAP which offers support for the squeezebox. I got the QNAP some time ago so there may be better options out there right now.
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Thanks for your question. You should be able to stream anything you play to it via bluetooth. It's a wonderful sounding unit.
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You can buy a $45 Rasperry PI a soundcard and the Squeezeplay software and achieve the same result. There are numerous online websites that show how to do this. Equally you can put the Squeezeplay client on anything that runs Windows XP or Windows 7. The advantage this had was it had its own display a decent Digital Audio chip and a touch screen.
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The top end roku player allows you to plug in USB drives.. you can then stream music , images, videos from that.
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You can stream music from your computer, but not through the USB port. I have an ethernet cable plugged into the unit, and I can stream music through iTunes to the unit. "Airplay," which is iTunes' streaming protocol, is one of the sources on the unit (just like Tuner or CD or Phono). You can also put music on a USB stick and plug it directly into the unit.
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I agree. It looks like a drive on your computer, so you can drag and drop songs to it. It will play them if they are encoded in a way that it understands, i.e. basic .mp3's up to 320 Kbps (and reportedly .wav files up 30 384 Kbps, according to the manual).
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Smartphone audio out is usually limited to a small headphone plug or docking station. The SqueezeBox Touch has two digital outs and an analog RCA L/R out (including a very well regarded DAC).High-resolution refers to higher than CD resolution like 24/96 or 24/192. CD is only 16/44.1Pandora Premium is 192k (higher resolution as mentioned above), free version is the standard 128k. Pandora does not currently allow access to the 192k streams via SqueezeBox players. I don't know what (if any) restrictions they impose for other hardware players.
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I bought it and yes it will play music. the only problem i saw is if you have them in different folders then it wont jump folder to folder.
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You can use airplay or iTunes, Amazon Cloud, gMusic etc. Airplay is agnostic about the application and source of the music.
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thinking bout buying one to put music on instead of cd's.. is this a good product to have for this ? and is it hard to operate ( not a geek..lol )
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it can pull music from internet or also any DLNA device which is a lossless format to store music in. it does not have amplification, you will need to connect to a sterio / amp
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MY VortexBox is connected to my home WiFi network and streams data wirelessly to my Logitech Squeezebox Duet streaming music player/ DAC, which is connected to the analog inputs of my stereo system. There are many different ways YOU can connect the VortexBox to your audio system. USB DAC is just one possible method. Probably best to check over at http://info.vortexbox.org or http://vortexbox.org/forum/ for more info on setup. Also, check out this list of VortexBox compatible DACS http://info.vortexbox.org/tiki-index.php?page=Compatibility+Guide
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This device can stream music to itunes, Apple TV (or other Apple devices), tablets and BluRay players. Do some research on DLNA and Twonky Servers (which is what this device can do).
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Not sure about how well it manages them under the native interface, but if you install Rockbox is manages them just fine, and you can easily create playlists that use songs from either the internal or external drive, songs in different folders.