Most recent edit on 2008-07-01 02:37:15 by HarryBo
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HarryBo and Woosey decided to look at the problem from a new angle. What do you really want from a car PC? The ability to maintain a large library of music in a variety of formats, and to browse/search/listen to it in an intuitive fashion. It just so happens that they had recently purchased Squeezeboxes and were very impressed with them. These units provide excellent sound quality and usability in a compact form factor with an attractive design. The backend software (SqueezeCenter) is a world-class example of music organisation software.
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HarryBo and Woosey decided to look at the problem from a new angle. What do you really want from a car PC? The ability to maintain a large library of music in a variety of formats, and to browse/search/listen to it in an intuitive fashion. It just so happens that they had recently purchased Squeezeboxes and were very impressed with them. These units provide excellent sound quality and usability in a compact form factor with an attractive design. The backend software (SlimServer) is a world-class example of music organisation software.
Edited on 2006-09-07 01:17:02 by HarryBo
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Inspiration for SlimCar
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SlimCar Overview
Motivation
The Solution
A PC running SlimServer in the car, with a SqueezeBox to control it. By dedicating a computer to this task, it can be small, inexpensive, easy to install and reliable. By linking it with your SlimServer at home, you can synchronise your library and database and not have to rescan the library when you add new tracks. Thus, you have a familiar method to access your music (SlimCar users generally already have a SqueezeBox at home) without the problems associated with most other car PC solutions.
See our ProjectGoals for further information.
Status
Please see the ProjectStatus page for up-to-date information on the state of the SlimCar project.
Oldest known version of this page was edited on 2006-09-07 01:16:19 by HarryBo [Cloned from Overview]
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SlimCar Overview
Motivation
Both
HarryBo and
Woosey are prominent members of
TalkAudio, the UK's largest car audio forum. Over the past few years, they have had the opportunity to use a huge variety of car audio equipment and to objectively evaluate it's usability. Being Computer Science graduates (or geeks, if you prefer), the idea of a car PC was always in the back of their minds.
Most current car PC solutions suffer from the classic "jack of all trades, master of none" problem. They aim to provide satellite navigation, DVD playback, music playback, car integration and frequently even more. This inevitably means that the systems are slow to boot up, unreliable, expensive and they tend to require a large LCD touchscreen which can be awkward to use on the move and attractive to thieves..
HarryBo and
Woosey decided to look at the problem from a new angle. What do you really want from a car PC? The ability to maintain a large library of music in a variety of formats, and to browse/search/listen to it in an intuitive fashion. It just so happens that they had recently purchased
Squeezeboxes and were very impressed with them. These units provide excellent sound quality and usability in a compact form factor with an attractive design. The backend software (
SlimServer) is a world-class example of music organisation software.
"So", Harry thought, "what about running it in a car?"
SlimCar was born...
The Solution
A PC running
SlimServer in the car, with a
SqueezeBox to control it. By dedicating a computer to this task, it can be small, inexpensive, easy to install and reliable. By linking it with your
SlimServer at home, you can synchronise your library and database and not have to rescan the library when you add new tracks. Thus, you have a familiar method to access your music (
SlimCar users generally already have a
SqueezeBox at home) without the problems associated with most other car PC solutions.
See our
ProjectGoals for further information.
Status
Please see the
ProjectStatus page for up-to-date information on the state of the
SlimCar project.
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