SlimDevices acquired by Logitech

yesterday, Sean Adams – CEO and founder of SlimDevices – announced the aquisition of his company by Logitech (see the SlimDevices forums or the official pressrelease). according to both companies’ statements, development of the Squeezebox- & Transporter network audio-clients will stay independently at SlimDevices, while Logitech will help distributing the devices – which already enjoy [...]

portrait: Slim Devices

GigaOM has a neat feature on Slim Devices, makers of the amazing Squeezebox network audio-client. founded by then 21 year old Sean Adams in 2001, Slim Devices is about to close $10mio of sales this year – with a mere staff of 30 employees and all expertise from product development to assembly and marketing in-house. [...]

Slim Devices’ Transporter

Slim Devices, well known among digital audio-freaks for its open-source based streaming player Squeezebox, just announced their brandnew high-end product Transporter.

while the Transporter is similar to its little brother in many aspects (WiFi & Ethernet, playback-support for mp3, WMA, Ogg, Flac, AAC & Wave, based on extensible Slim Server software), its easily distinguished by many [...]

Slim Devices integrates Rhapsody

customers of Real Networks’ Rhapsody music subscription-service can now integrate audio-content from Rhapsody with Slim Device’s Squeezebox (a fine network music player I reviewed for PLAY.FM). depending on the type of Rhapsody-account, users may only consume Rhapsody-Radio (free accounts) or access all their playlists and full-albums (unlimited accounts). either way, Rhapsodys back-catalog of 2mio. songs [...]

reviews: network-music-players

I just finished my third review on network-music-players for PLAY.FM. so far I’ve examined the Terratec Noxon Audio 2, the SlimDevices SqueezeBox and the Roku/Pinnacle SoundBridge. while the noxon and the soundbridge are mediocre devices which basically just fulfill the minimal requirements, the squeezebox stands out with it’s opensource server-software and impressive extensibility. here are [...]