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List Price : $599.00 Price : $199.99
List Price : $599.00 Price : $199.99
Product Description
The FP-1 provides all of the great on-screen music management features you expect from a FireBall for your iPod. It's a complete FireBall Music Manager with all of the custom install features you need to provide seamless integration of iPod music into any home audio system. The FP-1 can also stream music from any FireBall music server or PC/Mac with or without a docked iPod. The FP-1 even allows other FireBalls to access and play music stored on the iPod including music purchased from the iTunes Music Store.
- Browse and play digital music stored on any FireBall Music Server, PC, or Mac
- Use your home theater to experience iPod audio, video, and photos using the Fireball interface
- Supports iPod nano (1st and 2nd generation), iPod mini, iPod with color display, iPod with video
- Web interface for remote control via web browser; PDA interface for controlling from any pocket sized web device
- Stream iPod audio to other FireBall media managers and networked players
Escient FP-1 Music Manager with Universal Dock for iPod Reviews
Escient FP-1 Music Manager with Universal Dock for iPod Reviews
| 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:  Pile of Garbage, By This review is from: Escient FP-1 Music Manager with Universal Dock for iPod (Electronics) This product is a pile of garbage. I have a brand new 80 gig classic Ipod that I have been trying to get to work with this product for over 3 months now. I have structured wiring in my house and I have everything set up to distribute the IR Controls to this unit, and have the video and audio ditributed throughout my house. When the product was actually working, I had to reboot it every three or four days, becuase the software would lock up for no apparent reason. Lately, when I updated my Ipod with new Music, the unit just locks up, claiming it is updating the database. I am on my second unit (the first one was repaired by Escient), and I am now experiencing the same problem. This product should have never been released, it hasn't gone through the proper quality control testing to be released to the general public. Do not buy this unit. This product seemed too good to be true, and it actually is too good to be true, becuase it doesn't work. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:  They got it half right; need to hire "younger" software engineers, By Robert L. Rauch "Nob Rauch" (Chappaqua, NY United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Escient FP-1 Music Manager with Universal Dock for iPod (Electronics) I was pretty excited when my AV guy told me that there was a product that could not only dock my IPOD but also play the music I have stored in my iTunes on my PC even without the iPod. And, indeed, the Escient FP-1 Music Manager Universal Dock for iPod does just that. Unfortunately, the software appears to have been written by software engineers whose careers were aborted in the days of MS-DOS 3.1 or maybe Windows 95. The software is slow, klugey, non-intuitive and just plain hard to use. The limitations are truly surprising. If you are are used to the flexibility, ease of use, and design of iTunes, you may despair and just stop trying to work with this woefully inadequate software. It's really too bad because the product hardware works pretty well (even if the latency of response is pretty slow). A complete overhaul of the software, not a simple patch, would be imperative for me to consider increasing my rating from 2/5. I agree- this is not worth the money, By This review is from: Escient FP-1 Music Manager with Universal Dock for iPod (Electronics) I've had this for about a year and a half, and have never been able to get it to work. I have a rack system feeding my house, and phillips pronto remotes, and despite hours of labor for my A/V techs (who I trust know their stuff), we can't get it to work.. it constantly locks up....i have the nuvo system and will get the nuvo wireless ipod dock for when guests are here wanting to play their ipod..otherwise i can play my mac music and control it / view the display throughout the house so don't even need to plug in my personal ipod.. i just play straight from itunes...don't waste your money.. |
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