Comments on: Logitech Squeezebox Boom review

By: Donny Wallace

Donny Wallace — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:12:01 +0000

Did I say month, I meant $60 a year. I don’t believe in question marks either.

By: Donny Wallace

Donny Wallace — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:08:39 +0000

You will probably have problems setting up on a Mac because of its increased security. Call up support and get the info on how to set up for Mac sent to you. If you are lucky they will break policy and teach you what to do on the phone. After set-up the best way to hear music is with a $5 subscription to Napster. Unfortunately the interface for Napster sucks and trying to find the good music you know little about like the Boo Radleys or that one Stereolab or world or what are the oldies/90s you want in your random song list is not going to come because obviously they have playlists just to look like a real site not to support finding music. So you are going to have to search the web for where this info really exists. It is out there but buried with all the generic info on music. Unfortunately for whatever reason the acoustics in my room are horrible and I can’t hear how it should sound. I say unfortunately because the room is tiny. But having said that if you aren’t satisfied with the sound hook it up to good speakers/tuner and you are ready to go. Napster is missing a few things but with all it offers plus 60 free MP3s to get the 30 second tracks it is more than generous. Where is Trout Fish Replica and others but you know why complain with this much music that comes at this clear a signal. I miss albums but the upside is almost no wires or things to keep like the albums and exposure to new great stuff. THen you can get talk, documentaries and so on for your radio stations.
$60 a month will give you almost unlimited music and right now the Boos sound cool- I didn’t know that the Foo FIghters ripped them off. I’m going to have to search for the lyrics though. So really the only problem with Napster is that now there is so much music, so much politics on who gets noticed and so much bad stuff blocking out the great stuff- which is there but so so hard to find and worse remember. The next trick is to get a collection going from Netflix for my videos to go along with my Comic Book collections and Novels. I will start with Breaking Bad. But the point is why pay for Itunes and album only when you can easily set up entire albums onto your boom in under a minute an album. Do we really need to take our music everywhere we go or to always tune out the world typing on our text machine. I would say no but apparently this is the key because I’m in the worst city in America for white males to date and get married and the Ys who are typing and don’t talk and follow the chicks like a dog while they tell them what to do at the grocery store and so on are way ahead of me. Maybe things will change when i start texting all the time on the freeway while pumping the Boo Radleys. And I stop looking up or talking to people and I just follow like a dog.

By: tim

tim — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 08:54:04 +0000

@Paul sorry I don’t use iTunes at all, maybe someone else can help? Worth trying the Squeezebox forum too.

Tim

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:09:27 +0000

Hi – can anyone answer this:

My wife and I share a Windows XP computer, each with our own login and itunes account. When I set up my Squeezebox, I was logged in as myself, and the Box properly used my iTunes account as the input source. We’d like to have my wife’s account as an alternative source. Any thoughts?

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:39:37 +0000

Great review, shame I bought mine over the weekend and waded through the complexities of the user interfaces before I read it.

Just sent back a Sony Giga Juke (faulty network components) to make way for the BOOM and got to say it knocks the socks of it in every respect.

By: JS Greenwood

JS Greenwood — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:49:06 +0000

@David:

Setting it up: It only accepts a “HEX” security code. So if your network is set up with an ASCII one (i.e. normal alphanumeric letters and numbers), you’ll need to convert this to the hexadecimal codes it asks for. You can do this online: http://www.wifizard.com/wi-fi/convert.htm

Depending on the length of your password, you’ll need to pick the 64/128/etc. option.

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:17:57 +0000

I am obviously not techy enough to set mine up! I have fallen at the first hurdle as I cannot work out how to input the sewcurity code for my wireless network into the Boom.
Any help would be appreciated as this was a father’s day present and as yet still sitting quiet!
Thanks in advance of some assistance.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:14:40 +0000

I’m just a bit baffled by the apparent “complexity.” I find it exceedingly easy to setup. I was already running Squeezecenter, but even that is easy. You point to a directory and let it run. It only becomes more complex if you’re looking for more complex features, and I still find that whether simple. My friend can’t even get FLAC files to import correctly into their Macbook’s iTunes–now that’s complex. Apple Labs or not.

By: tim

tim — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:01:59 +0000

@ljb I used the sub out. Otherwise, it would not really test the Boom’s sub support. But you are right about REL’s recommendation; I would be interested to hear it with alternative subs.

Tim

By: ljb

ljb — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:15:32 +0000

Excellent review.

Question as to how you connected the REL sub.

As you know, REL recommends connecting via the high-level inputs outputs via the Neutrik Speakon High Level Leads. Did you somehow connect these leads to the Headphone out?
Or did you connect via the Sub out?