[SlimDevices: Beginners] Am I missing something?

[punderwood75]

Hi

Its a long story how I ended up at Slimdevices.  I recently bought a
Chumby.com and wanted to listen to Radio1.  I found out that Chumby can
listen to SlimStreams, and that alienBBC and SlimServer could do that. 
I have not got AlienBBC to work yet :-( seems to not want to start
playing the steam (I have check and double checked everything). 
However have got my iTunes streaming to my Chumby.com (cool!!)

I have a MacMini that I use as a mediaserver hooked up to a LCD TV /
hifi System.  

I had no idea SlimServer concept existed, I had seen the Squeezebox
right back when it was first released but never came back and took a
look.  All i can say is WOW - what have I missed! :-) The slimserver is
really cool - no more dragging my MP3 collection to work - I can steam
direct to my office.  anyway.  thats a side point :-)

My question? I see that they are about to release this cool remote
control to select music etc.  This is something I find missing from my
MacMini at the moment.  Now my MacMini is plugged direct into my hifi. 
Why would I need a Squezebox?  Can the remote control just control the
SlimServer and in term the output goes via my Mac > Hifi?  I see there
software version of the Squeezebox called SoftSqueeze which is also
free :-) ... will the remote control work against that?  The only
reason I see to get a SqueezeBox itself is for another room in the
house.


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