Logitech Duet: Jive Controller + Squeezebox
A few months ago I told you about Jive, the codename for the handheld smart controller for Logitech’s Duet Network Music System.
This is a VERY cool system. The Jive controller uses WiFi to talk to the Squeezebox receiver. You can play your own MP3s, or listen to Pandora — an excellent music selection service — plus thousands of internet radio stations. Did I mention Duet also works with the Rhapsody subscription misic service?
[tease] (from press release)
The Squeezebox Duet Controller
To help people navigate their digital music collections, the new Squeezebox Controller features a 2.4-inch full-color LCD screen. The multi-room controller uses a convenient scroll wheel, familiar menus and intuitive buttons, making it easy for people to browse, select and play their personal music collection, Internet radio and online subscription services, such as Rhapsody, MP3tunes.com and Pandora.
People can search music by artist, albums, playlists, genres and a host of other categories. Plus, the brilliant full-color screen displays album art and allows people to personalize their screen wallpaper.
The Squeezebox Duet Receiver
Building on the control and audio quality of the classic Squeezebox, the new compact wireless receiver easily fits in any room in the house.
Expert engineering and sophisticated audio rendering technology helps provide enhanced sound clarity. Advanced 802.11g wireless technology eliminates the need to string wires everywhere just to listen to music from the computer.
And Squeezebox owners who want to control multiple music sources all over the house can easily add more receivers, allowing them to listen to a different song in each room, or synchronize their receivers to hear the same tune throughout the house. Multiple receivers can all be controlled by one Squeezebox Duet Controller.