Logitech revamps range of Wi-Fi music players with Squeezebox Radio and Squeezebox Touch

by Parm Mann on 3 September 2009, 11:51

Tags: Squeezebox Touch, Squeezebox Radio, Logitech (NASDAQ:LOGI)

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Squeezebox Touch

The Logitech Squeezebox Touch, pictured below, features a 4.3in touchscreen display, providing access to Internet radio or networked media at the touch of a finger.

As with the Squeezebox Radio, it'll display album art and track information, but it'll provide richer sound with sampling rates of up to 24bit at 96kHz. If your networking knowledge isn't up to scratch, the unit's equipped with a USB port and an SD card slot to allow for playback of music and photos stored on flash drives and memory cards.

There's no built-in speaker, as the Squeezebox Touch is designed to plug in to your existing speaker system, but there is support for Logitech's App Gallery - including the ability to check friends' status and recommendations on Facebook, and photo slide shows on Flickr.

The Squeezebox Touch will become available in November priced at £259. Want to see more? Check out Logitech's introductory video at Viddler.com.

Official press release: Limitless Choices: Logitech Brings Your Digital Music Together


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Posted by Funkstar - Thu 03 Sep 2009 12:01
Technically the Touch does have a speaker (along with an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor), but thats just for the startup and menu sounds, not for playback.

It will be interesting to see what other uses it could have once the community start writing their own apps for these two new players.

Just to clarify things, the Touch doesn't just playback from USB or SD it acts as a server running a stripped back version of SqueezeCenter. This gives you a much more powerful interface to your music, it's far more than just a list of your music like most car head units do. You can also you the Touch and the center piece to a whole house audio system, serving multiple players with the same or seperate music streams.
Posted by impossible - Thu 03 Sep 2009 12:31
I'm itching for a squeezebox boom atm, keeping my fingers crossed that they will drop to £150 on amazon again.
Posted by Shooty* - Thu 03 Sep 2009 12:37
Yeah, but can it play crysis at 1280 x 1024???

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Seriously, I presume these things are compatible with Window Home Server, if one keeps one's music collection on a server? I'm getting on very well with itunes/ bonjour/ firefly on my PCs, but in our next house, having network tune access would be v good.
Posted by Funkstar - Thu 03 Sep 2009 12:45
There is a native installer for SqueezeCenter 7.4 on WHS. Currently 7.4 is in Beta but is required for Radio and Touch, so will be the official release by the time they are available.

For 7.3.3 (the current release) there is a way to get it installed on WHS, but I don't know the details. I think it required you to remote desktop in and install it like you would on a regular windows desktop. It does work though, and instructions should be easy to find.