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Bean

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  1. Welcome to the Jungle. Hide your kids, hide your wives, but especially hide your WALLET... cause we be making everybody up in here broke...
  2. Now THAT I didnt know. Thanks for the info. Also the Squeezebox's do have a digital out as well to connect a DAC to them. That said the Roku box's are cheaper but not sure how user friendly the interface is. With the Squeezebox's at least you have ALL control via your phone and it works pretty good. Will have to go try it on my Roku tonight.
  3. The Squeezebox Classic (version 2 & version 3) as well as the Squeezebox Touch & Squeezebox Duet both can access MOG. You run it as a "app" on the player. See link: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/08/logitech-squeezebox-gets-mog-personalized-music-streaming/ http://feedback.mog.com/forums/77043-home-audio-suggestions/suggestions/835935-mog-for-squeezebox Squeezebox homepage (its in the header all the apps it can run and it can also run Pandora too which is nice): http://www.mysqueezebox.com/index/Home As a sidenote Logitech support has been killed for the Squeezebox line but there is still a MASSIVE group of folks using the products. There is a TON of info out on these units, but IMHO they are the BEST bang for your buck player right now as the Classic v2 and v3 can be had for around 125 bucks on ebay and you can use a app on your phone to browse your library and control playback. Or you can use your laptop as well to access things too.
  4. Cool. It took over a year of a couple people bugging me to do it before I jumped in and now I can say its made my commute to and from work, and during MUCH better. That and I also have a Squeezebox that has a MOG app so I can use my phone to pull up my favorites, etc. It makes those few mins here and there I have to listen to music much more efficient, albeit at the cost of quality, but I find for most listening its adequate. I will PM you my phone number if you want so we can discuss it sometime as I honestly am a HUGE fan. Its also a great way to listen to an entire album before buying a CD copy so you know what your getting... I like everything I am hearing (pun intended). I signed up last night but didnt have a chance to play around much, and not much today. I need to investigate the players, as that is the one thing I use most often. Logitech and Grace both make them I think? Gotcha. Logitech Squeezebox's (Classic and Touch's) have the MOG app you can use to listen to MOG through them. Otherwise you could just connect the phone directly to your pre-amp but thats not how I suggest doing it . If you have any questions let me know.
  5. Call me instead..... you wont miss a box or two.... hehehe
  6. Cool. It took over a year of a couple people bugging me to do it before I jumped in and now I can say its made my commute to and from work, and during MUCH better. That and I also have a Squeezebox that has a MOG app so I can use my phone to pull up my favorites, etc. It makes those few mins here and there I have to listen to music much more efficient, albeit at the cost of quality, but I find for most listening its adequate. I will PM you my phone number if you want so we can discuss it sometime as I honestly am a HUGE fan. Its also a great way to listen to an entire album before buying a CD copy so you know what your getting...
  7. I haven't noticed an issue but IIRC Pandora changed its terms of service and made some changes to streaming quality as well. I also stopped using Pandora and spent money on a MOG subscription in order to get better quality. I would highly suggest checking out MOG. Its a subscription service but it allows you access to the entire 12 million artist library. You get unlimited desktop streaming for 5 dollars and if you get the 10 dollar plan you also get unlimited streaming on your smartphone and can download the tracks for offline playback.... Oh and I forgot to mention... its a GUARANTEED 320 bps whereas Pandora is at max IIR 128 with Pandora One and even less with the free version. Spotify is a similar service but it only offers up to 320 bps so you dont always know if your really getting high quality or not.
  8. I know that it ONLY matters if pics are there... so here are some pics of Pauls setup in the "Man Cave" (taken from Club Polk). He's got a better setup upstairs, but dont see pics of it... TT upstairs:
  9. Bean

    DIY Spin Clean

    I agree, I wanna see it in action LOL! Let me get the dang thing siliconed up....then I promise, if I can figure out how....a doc-u-tube of it in action. LOL, no sleep for you! Must keep me entertained at all times.... Actually it looks like a ingenious solution. Now do I want to try to build yours or MadMike's.......
  10. Bean

    DIY Spin Clean

    I agree, I wanna see it in action
  11. MediaMonkey will let you do a bunch at once IIRC. Its a free program that you can use to manage your library. It also can be used in place of iTunes for iOS devices. I dont recall off the top of my head how to set it up, but you can configure it so that when you sync your iOS device to it, it downconverts the FLAC file to a specific bitrate MP3 on the fly so your not storing 2 versions of the file on your computer. I am sure a google would turn up the settings to change, I just dont have time to do one
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