RE: Sonos vs Squeezebox

["Nick Tyson - The Edge" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes you can get the BBC stations. Our engineers tell me that although
the Sonos isn't compatible with Real Player, there are sites that
convert it into something that the Sonos likes. Don't have any more info
than that in my head but I can find out if required.

Nick

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-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Church [mailto:yahoo@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 October 2006 15:12
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Sonos vs Squeezebox



Paul,

Yes, I guess that would work.

Was just really wondering if there was any way of doing it via the
wireless
stream to Sonos, rather than making an analogue link - I don't really
want
to tie up the computer's soundcard with playing the radio.

Cheers

Pete

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On Behalf Of
Paul Gordon
Sent: 05 October 2006 13:30
To: UKHA_D Group
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Sonos vs Squeezebox

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.

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> Sent: 05 October 2006 12:07
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> 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.
>
> 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:
>
> 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
>
> Pete
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