RE: Sonos vs Squeezebox

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm just thinking aloud here Pete, since I don't (currently) have a
Sonos, but...

Doesn't Sonos have an AUX line in for other audio sources?

If yes, then couldn't you use a "soft" squeeze client on the same
PC as
slimserver (I presume you'd have to run slimserver to use the alienBBC
plugin to get the audio stream to a squeezebox), and connect the audio
out from that PC to the input on the Sonos?

So it would go:   Slimserver----AlienBBC-----Softsqeeze-----PC Line
out------Sonos Line in....

Where slimserver, alienBBC and softsqeuuze are all running on the same
box...

Then you could have the real audio stream as a selectable source on
Sonos, and you wouldn't have to buy a real squeezebox...

Just a thought...

Paul G.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
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> Peter Church
> Sent: 05 October 2006 12:07
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] Sonos vs Squeezebox
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> I was about to splash out on a Squeezebox 3 to dip my toe into the
> streamed MP3 arena, and then got thinking about Sonos.
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> Squeezebox does just about everything I need it to, and is quite
> open for 'playing',  but Sonos might be a better long term solution
> for expanding to multiple rooms, and the remote is a big plus.
>
> I'm familiar with most of the basic features of both, so don't want
> to initiate a war of words supporting either particularly, but have
> one question for the Sonos supporters:
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> Is there any way to get the Sonos to stream music from the Real
> Audio radio streams (particularly RTE)? Squeezebox can do this with
> the AlienBBC plug-in, so can Sonos be hacked to either piggyback off
> the Slimserver or do this some other way?
>
> This is a critical function to get SWMBO approval...;-)
>
> TIA
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> Pete
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