Dumped Sirius!

Today we finally dumped Sirius radio! We got it as a gift from my in-laws a few years back and they’ve been paying the fee since then which was fine, however, we got real annoyed at the DJs. In January, we got my wife a new car with a built-in XM receiver and she enjoyed the 3 months free. However, I held out subscribing until they sent me an offer I couldn’t refuse (the dealer said to wait until they sent a good offer and they sent several offers). When I subscribed, it also came with free online access which was pretty neat. I found an XM Radio plugin for my Squeezebox and was pleased. I discovered that I could stream 2 XM stations at once, so I picked up another Squeezebox today (used) and hacked the XM plugin code to let me connect twice. Now we can stream 2 XM stations at once or have XM on one Squeezebox and MP3s on the other; this also works out well so that we can play children’s music on one box and whatever we want on the other. Very cool. Goodbye, Sirius and the crappy DJs! (I hope things don’t go downhill when/if the Sirius/XM merger is finalized.)

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