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Page 3 of 5 The Squeezebox Unit: When not powered on, the Squeezebox is just a smooth looking black box with a Logitech logo in the middle, but once it is powered on, everything comes to life with a Logitech and Squeezebox logo scrolling across the screen as a welcome, and if you’re turning it on for the first time it takes you straight into the setup menu. Here it will guide you effortlessly through connecting to a network whether it is wired or wireless and once that’s done and providing you’ve put a playlist in your SlimServer you’re up and running and can get on with the music. That’s what we’re all here for right? Well I’m not here to make ice cream! Squeezebox Powering On - Squeezebox Logo  The Squeezebox can play many different files types, including high bandwidth lossless formats. The following files types are compatible MP3 AAC WMA Ogg FLAC Apple Lossless WMA Lossless WAV music files
So while it’s not every file type out there, it’s certainly got the main bases covered. The Squeezebox can also connect to Internet music and radio streaming services, such as SHOUTcast and others if that strikes your fancy, it’s all very easy to accomplish just through the remote control and the main unit. Remote Control  When the music is playing on the Squeezebox there are a range of visual options you can choose for the dot-matrix LED screen, including how the currently playing song is displayed (Artist, Title, Genre, Album etc...) as well as whether it displays a small VU Meter or spectrum analyser, or whether a spectrum analyser takes up the whole screen in the background. If basic text displays and VU meters bore you, then you can configure the Squeezebox to revert to a screensaver after a certain amount of inactivity from the remote control, the screensavers include – Snow which falls to form words, Analogue or digital VU meters, full screen spectrum analysers, the date and time or an RSS newsfeed ticker, all of which are configured through SlimServer. Menu - Now Playing  Now Playing, Normal Display  Different Screensavers and Displays  If having thousands of songs at your fingertips is not enough for you, the Squeezebox even has an inbuilt game – Slimtris, a sideways version of Tetris which you play with the remote control. Playing the game won’t affect the playback of the music in anyway. Slimtris - In-Built Game  The Squeezebox can also serve as an alarm clock, and you have the ability to set the same alarm for everyday, or a different one for every day of the week. This would of course involve the rest of your stereo being left on, or on some sort of timer itself. Unit Turned Off - Time Displayed 
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