some strange device

Squeeze box

i heard about this device which allowed you to link your amplifier or something like that to your computer? making your computer act as a cd player. i don't know much about this device i just heard a little something about it, and for all i know it doesn't exist.
if it does exist, could someone give me more information?
it would also allow me to get rid of that cheap 5.1 setup i have on my pc.

edit : the strange device is a squeeze box

 

couldnt you just link sound out to the amp?

 

A good place to start is the old "Let's Get Digital" thread. I think you mean a Squeezebox

 

thats it its a squeeze box, i remember now. cheers.

 

the reason that i wanted to get a squeeze box is for budget reasons, do you have any idea where i could find a cheap yet efficient squeeze box? my amp is just a meer NAD 3020A so to be honest i dont need anything brilliant. (my cd player is even worse, sony CDP-m25, dont think it even exists anymore, cannot read scrached cds very annoying).

 

I got mine here

 

just wondering, will any sound my pc makes come out of the speakers? or does the squeezebox litteraly act as a mp3 player?

 

It just acts as an mp3 player, point it to a directory on the computer with the music in and it will only play what is in that directory.

You'll struggle to find the new SB3 for under £229, but you could try looking for an SB2 on ebay (they are the same hardware inside), I imagine a few will be appearing from people buying the new model.

If you need a PC to act as a music server, I have put details of an easy to use, pre-configured server in the trade adverts, I have also just managed to get some tiny pc's for those after a smaller solution.

Andrew

 

£179 but as the SB3 is essentially an SB2 wearing an audiophile coat (i.e. the inners are the basically the same) why not get the SB2 for £129?

I see they also do Qnap TS-101 NAS 500Gb.

Looks tempting.

 

the pc wouldnt be a music server, it is the one i am currently using now.
if i find a SB1 is it worth buying? or should i really aim for a SB2?

 

SB1 is good but the SB2 is definitely more musical. Using your PC shouldn't be a problem except when you re-index. At the moment my PC is using between 1-10% CPU usage, nothing more so Slimserver shouldn't intefere with other programs.

 

Thats the wired SB3, I was referring to the wireless

 

If you just want the PC sound to come out of the Hi-Fi you can use a wire. If you want it to be wireless I saw in a little shop in lakeside a transmitter that you plug in to the PC soundcard and it then transmits to a recover at the other end. I think it ran on high frequency radio so it won't be ultra Hi-Fi but considering the rest of your kit (no offence) might not be to bad especially if you are only playing MP3. It was about £15!

As people have said, the squeezebox will only play MP3’s or other music files, it wont just send any sound from the computer.

 

It does play a wide variety of Internet radio stations as well.