I just bought the starter package (two zone players, one controller) and I'm happy to say that it has met my expectations. A few of minor gripes:
1) There does not seem to be any way to route the audio from the desktop controller that runs on my PC to my computer speakers - i.e. you need to have one of your ZonePlayers in the same room as your "host" computer.
2) The color display on the controller is great but it would nice to see some options to change the colors, change the skins, customize the layout, etc.
3) I'd like to have the ability to pull up more meta data about the song: Year, addtional Comments, etc.
4) I agree with earlier comments that there should be a cheaper "amp-less" zone player that you could plug into an existing stereo system.
5) On the Music Library I'd like to see some support for subscribing to PodCasts.
Overall this thing works as advertised. I'm convinced that this is how everyone will be listening to music in the house a few years from now.
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I just bought the starter package (two zone players, one controller) and I'm happy to say that it has met my expectations. A few of minor gripes:
1) There does not seem to be any way to route the audio from the desktop controller that runs on my PC to my computer speakers - i.e. you need to have one of your ZonePlayers in the same room as your "host" computer.
2) The color display on the controller is great but it would nice to see some options to change the colors, change the skins, customize the layout, etc.
3) I'd like to have the ability to pull up more meta data about the song: Year, addtional Comments, etc.
4) I agree with earlier comments that there should be a cheaper "amp-less" zone player that you could plug into an existing stereo system.
5) On the Music Library I'd like to see some support for subscribing to PodCasts.
Overall this thing works as advertised. I'm convinced that this is how everyone will be listening to music in the house a few years from now.