Spotify on Squeezebox Touch!

The fact that the Squeezebox model is still being kept alive in one form or another by various creative individuals is testimony to its value. A bit like my parents with their VCR I dread the day when mine ceases to function.

Lampizator appear to have snatched a supply of SB as they're now offering a pimped up version of the Duet on their website.

LampizatOr  Sqb TRANSPORT - a network streamer with tubed SPDIF  output stage, powered by a tubed PSU, works over wifi and LAN,  Slimdevices/Logitech engine. Remotely controlled by iPad, iPod, iPhone, macbook, Windows, Linux, Qnap,  or any android Tab or Pad.

SBT is also the only way I can reliably stream e.g. Radio Paradise 320 without buffer issues.  My NDX on the same switch cannot do it without frequent dropouts, sometimes with much less demanding sources.  KING FM and KUOW FM were dropping out today on the NDX.  Never an issue on my other streamers.

Nick

Why can you get the 320 stream of BBC Radio Three with iTunes [the best quality of any radio broadcast] but not Radio Paradise?

While RP would not be my first port of call for music, I do wonder what is going on.

I do hope that R3 will soon enough be streamed at CD redbook standard for those with good enough internet support without the need for anything special in the computer department. After all it is possible to stream hi-res video without problem these days ...

ATB from George

qobuz already offer streaming at red book standard, and have an excellent classical catalogue - and I believe there a qobuz plugin for an SBT. Agree with the op - an SBT is a superb piece of kit, with an architecture that is still in some ways ahead of the game. 

I had a Logitech Transporter (with big knob) that I was running into a Nait 2 and it was amazing! Sean Adams was a genius! But then I saw the writing on the wall- Logitech had no interest in further development after they bought Slim Devices and due to the green displays going after a time (replacements were going to be limited) I went for the original UnitiQute. 

But do I miss that old set up.....

George, I think we might have discussed this before, but until BBC Radio  3 stream stop using a lossy psycho acoustic modeled  codec.. then it's  VHF FM for me with its companded 14 bit NICAM 16kHz cut off distribution network.

if the BBC started streaming FLAC, like Qobuz mentioned above, then I could see VHF FM being replaced for my ears.

Simon

Dear Simon,

With the very good broadband now becoming available I cannot see why Radio Three at least is not offered in the highest resolution that would be widely practical. FLAC at CD standard would suit me very nicely thank you!

In fact where I live is hemmed in with a very high railway line well above rooflines of all the houses in my quad, and Worcester's seven hills [ and the Malvern only a few miles to the West], VHF is never going to be an option here. Sutton Coldfield used to be excellent when I lived out at Crown East on a quite high hill - two miles west of Worcester City - and I had excellent VHF in Hereford also from Sutton, but it not equally good in rather large areas of the UK. Good if you live in the right place of course. 

But the standards of VHF broadcasting have indeed fallen as I can show with recordings taken from Radio Three over more than thirty years now. The oldest of them are even as recordings rather than listened to direct easily better than the more recent ones where the art of the man on the attenuator has been replaced with automatic systems which are not nearly so far sighted or musically predictive as to avoid large tutti fortes being crushed by the machine at crucial moments!

My BB was upgraded [gratis for the installation, and no change in subscription with BT] five weeks ago to optical at the fastest advertised speed of up to 74 mbps. It has never measured at less than 73, and my upload speed is between 16 and 17 mbps. I am ready when the BBC is!

ATB from George