RE: Sonos vs Squeezebox

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete

I've not used the slim stuff, but I can testify that Sonos is 1 of only 3
gadgets (from a cast of thousands!) that has full (and almost
unconditional,
except that Sonos costs money) SWMBO approval.

I've got a Cambridge Audio DAB tuner permanently on and tuned to Radio 1 in
Node Zero (it 'only' uses 30w of power, so not too bad), though with the
new
BBC links from Gareth hopefully I won't need it, and it makes Sonos an even
better product (my new feature-want is Pandora integration, then I'll be
super-happy).

Pete

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From: Peter Church [mailto:yahoo@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 October 2006 12:07
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Sonos vs Squeezebox



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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