Escient FP-1 Music Manager with Universal Dock for iPod | 
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| Brand: Escient
Category: CE
List Price: $599.00
Buy New: $399.77
You Save: $199.23 (33%)
New (7) Used (1) from $398.92
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 17735
Color: Black
Media: Electronics
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.1 x 1.6
MPN: FP-1
Model: FP-1
UPC: 833366000342
EAN: 0833366000342
ASIN: B000P5AJBK
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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.
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| Customer Reviews:
They got it half right; need to hire "younger" software engineers October 18, 2008
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.
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