As Wally Cleaver would say, I’ve been goofing around. The Logitech Squeezebox Radio is so good I was inspired to make a video to show how I have it set up. There’s no remote yet, so you get to see my hairy arm working the controls.
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As I said in the video, turn it up and it gets loud. How loud? The meter shows 108 dB, and the sound is clear and solid.
Something else I mentioned is the music server that’s in the basement. Logitech’s Squeezebox server is running on my spare computer, bought on the day Windows XP was released — October 25, 2001. The music is on a 160 GB USB drive that I outgrew on my primary Windows desktop.
CD ripping is done with Windows Media Player 11. It’s set up for Carol’s convenience, so that all she has to do is open the tray and insert the disc. It rips and ejects automatically.
Hey! You didn’t finish playing the no. 7 song from FORTY years ago: “JEAN!” Wow, Dougie, you’re just as nimble on electronic devices as, well, Molly and her friends. I’m all thumbs, and now, one broken left pinkie. Happened when a teen-aged punk slammed into me when I had stopped at the side of the Penn State ice rink last weekend. Pulled a lot of muscles, too. Anyway, I listen to a lot of internet radio. Accu-Radio (as in Accu-Weather) is surprisingly good, and free! I just can’t afford the cool devices. Your video is very slick and would play well on YouTube. There are so many less professionally done ones showing devices like these. Of course, you were a disc jockey once….
Say, I have my infamous year-end lists from Acton here. No. 7 from 1970 was … “I’ll Be There” by The Jackson Five!