A Buddy For Your Stereo System

Slim Devices has a new product to bring all of your computer music files to your next party. Since iPods are sufficient for personal listening, and computer speakers do not always sound the best, the new Squeezebox and Transporter are here to offer an alternative. Slim Devices is making it easy to give up the CD. With their new products, you can play your computer music files through any stereo system. The products use wireless networks or Ethernet cords to easily access your computer music files to convert them and play them through a stereo. Once the products are connected to your computer, they automatically find your music. The products also play multiple types of files, including MP3, AAC, WMA, and WAV, along with others. They can take music from your iTunes or Windows Media libraries. Like the iPod, you can shuffle songs, or choose by artist, song, or album. Squeezebox can also play music from Rhapsody libraries, and offers purchasers a 30-day trial. Internet radio is an option for Slim Devices users, and by downloading larger music files, the music played through these products can mirror the quality of the music on a CD. The price for the system is $299, and $2000 for the Transporter.

Whether Generation Y will run out to purchase these products is not guaranteed. There are so many iPod attachments that already allow you to plug in your iPod and play your music for a group of listeners. They are also often offered at a cheaper price. If you opt for iPod speaker attachments, you can still have the remote control, and you can take your whole system on the go. From this article, it sounds like you have to have access to your computer to use Slim Devices products, since the music is streamed from your computer to the products. This means you either have to take your laptop with you, along with the Squeezebox or Transporter, or you have to stay at home with your desktop computer. The quality difference from iPod speaker attachments and Slim Device products does not appear to be enough of an issue to me to make me think that Generation Y will even care. These products seemed to be catered to perhaps an older generation that want to stream their music throughout their house, but I wonder if the older generations are demanding this? Right now, the older generations are still buying the majority of their music on CDs.