New Logitech Squeezebox Touch

Yep, sadly they've discontinued the whole "squeezebox" format. I still own a few of their "boomboxes" & radios and will continue to until they die. Although, I am selling my SB3 to go to a Mac Mini server.

I don't understand killing the whole format. There's not really anything else quite like it. My kids love having every song, artist, playlist, that's on our computer, available to them in their rooms and remote controllable from their iPod touchs. They both have the smaller, single speaker "radios". It's a nice little player, color screen to show artwork, it can stream radio stations from around the world and sounds decent enough for 8 & 12 year olds. I will continue to use the "boom" as our alarm clock/radio in our bedroom, as well as a second one for portable music on the patio, deck or in the garage. Hopefully they stay functional for years to come. Or until someone comes up with a better system.

The new UE radio is basically the same as the old SB Radio, except for the firmware.The old ones can be "upgraded" to the new system. You can't stream local files directly, they need to go through the cloud first. Hopefully they will introduce a Touch replacement or something similar.
With the old ones, every indication is that at some point a few years down the line, you'll lose the apps that go through mysqueezebox.com, but should still be able to stream local files as long as the server still works with your OS.

Yes its true Logitech is killing the Squeezebox architecture. Not a single original Slim Devices employee remains at Logitech. They've all either been laid off, or left voluntarily.

The "trend" being forced upon us nowadays is this concept of "the cloud". Host all your music on some company's internet servers and stream it to your devices across the internet. The companies prefer this format, as it lets them monitor and track your audio collection and usage patterns. It also reduced tech support calls since they are managing the audio server and not you.

Me, I prefer to retain control of my own data, and to have an audio system that has no external dependencies on internet access, or availability of someone elses servers. I also don't care for the all-in-one digital file systems because they don't use redundant hard drives or have error-correcting memory like my home server does.

Squeezebox is a unique product in the market, nobody else has anything like it. You can have my Transporter and my Red Hat Linux Squeeze Server when you pry them from my cold dead hands! :)

It's a real pitty. While the software is not as easy as the sonos (for full disclosure i own and use both) and it can't be used in a NAS environment, with a few exceptions-, it is capable of playing hi-res files. Not only upto 24/96, but even upto 24/192 with the free digital output app.

Without the touch, any idea on how to get a hi-res file on a NAS to connect and play through a earby 24/192 capable DAC?

And how to do it , if the DAC is further away and requires a WIFI connection in between?

Addition to my last post:

today since my NAS doesn't connect to my Touch, I put the files I want to listen to on a memory card which i insert directly in the touch. And control it via iPeng on my iphone.

Any other ways to connect a memory card to a dac?