4 Logitech®
Squeezebox™ Boom User Guide 5

System Requirements

Operating system

Windows• ® Vista®, Windows XP, or Windows 2000 (SP4 or later required)
Mac• ® OS X, version 10.3 or higher
Linux-based OS with Perl 5.8.3 or higher installed•

Computer

733 Mhz CPU or faster•
256 MB RAM •
80 MB hard drive space •

Network

Ethernet and/or 802.11b/g compatible wireless network. Routers which •
support 802.11 Draft N are also compatible, as long as they are backward
compatible with 802.11g.

Internet

You’ll need a broadband internet connection for internet radio and access to •
music services. Internet access also needed to download the SqueezeCenter™
software.
Boom Hardware At A Glance

Remote Control

A. power turns the Squeezebox Boom on or off.
B. home returns the display to the Home Screen
(the top level menu). Pressing home again
from the Home Screen displays the Now Playing
screen.
C. left, right, up and down allow you to navigate
through track lists, music services, configuration
menus, and more. up and down scroll through
the menu, right selects the item, and left
returns to the previous menu.
D. Press play to begin listening to the selected
track, artist, album, genre, or playlist. This action
causes the current playlist to be replaced
with the selected item. If you want to add
the selected item to your playlist, press add
instead of play.
E. Press add to add the selected track, artist,
album, genre or playlist to the end of the
current playlist (called Now Playing). Press and
hold add to add the selected item to Now
Playing and play it next.
F. rewind, pause, and forward control the playback of your music. Press forward
to skip to the next song, and rewind to skip back. Press pause to pause or resume
the music. Press and hold rewind or forward to scan through the song that’s
currently playing. Press and hold pause to stop the current track.
G. volume up and volume down
H. sleep has two purposes. During normal use, it activates the sleep timer to turn the
power off after a period of time you specify, between 15 and 90 minutes. sleep also
acts as a snooze button, pausing the alarm for a preselected amount of time after
it has been activated. The default is nine minutes. See Tips And Tricks For Using
The Controls to learn how to adjust the default delay.