Escient: making technology behave
The award winning Escient SE Series FireBall SE80 Digital Music Manager now makes available all of Escient's groundbreaking technologies at an affordable price! You get great standard features such as 80GB of music storage (storage capacity, by format, in hours: MP3(320)/538, MP3(192)/897, MP3(160)/1076, MP3(128)/1345), automatic disc recognition, built-in CD-RW drive, free Internet Radio, plus several new features such as a PDA web interface, enhanced widescreen user interface, and the ability to skin the interface for the ultimate customization for your mood or room — all at a great low price. The FireBall SE80 is the perfect solution for entry-level, single room music system installations.
MUSIC MANAGER?
Maybe you are one of those folks who wonder, "What exactly is a music manager and why exactly would I want one? Will I have to run an ad in the classified section of the newspaper? If I do hire one, will I have to pay him or her more than minimum wage?" Rest assured, dear reader, when you lay your hard-earned money down for the Escient Fireball SE80, you can lash it to your furniture, make it work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and feed it nothing except electricity and CDs, while paying it nothing, if that's what you want to do. Think of it as the little techno monkey slave you've always wanted.
A music manager, you see, is a home audio component that helps you make the most of your CD investment. The Escient FireBall SE80 provides both convenience and time saving features such as instant access to any CD stored in you hard drive, automatic disc recognition, and multiple views. Plus, playlists. Plus, rip copies of your mixes. And intercept internet radio. And record music to the hard drive from any "legacy" analog or digital audio device (yes, LPs, cassettes, etc...). And . . . actually, that's it. If you love music, you're going to love the music manager features onboard the SE80.
Easy peasy features at your fingertips
All you have to do is load your CDs, close the door, and wait as the Escient FireBall SE80 does the rest, downloading piles of information about the titles in your collection using your existing Internet connection. How? The SE80 scans each CD, then connects to the Gracenote CDDB to download information including: artist, title, song list, even the cover art! You don't have to type a thing! Next thing you know, you can see everything you'd ever need to know about your collection organized on-screen right before your eyes. Maybe you want to view lists of CDs by genre, or by alphabetized titles, or, in order to recreate that record store experience, you can shop the whole shebang by viewing the cover art, waiting for something to catch your eye. What will definitely catch your eye is the SE80's customizable graphical user interface. Choose a "skin" that best suits your mood, or match it with your newly painted accent wall. The choice is yours.
Additional Specifications
- MUSIC MANAGER FEATURES
- 80GB hard drive (storage capacity, in hours: MP3(320)/538, MP3(192)/897, MP3(160)/1076, MP3(128)/1345)
- Built-in CD player/CD burner
- Instant music access — view any CD in your collection (organized by genre, title, artist, or song) using on-screen guide
- Fast CD ripper — upload your CDs to the hard drive in just minutes
- Automatic CD identification — uses GracenoteCDDB for perfect CD matching
- Free WMA and Shoutcast internet radio — uses the Escient RadioDB tuning service
- Fully customizeable — create and edit your own playlists, genres, and lists of internet radio stations
- CONNECTIVITY/INTERFACE/CONTROL FEATURES
- Back panel connections: digital audio (optical) out, analog audio (stereo) out, video (composite, s-video, component) out, ethernet, IR in
Manufacturer Specifications
- On-screen graphical user interface with customizeable themes and personalized backgrounds (skins)
- PC file sharing using FireBall PC technology
- Web server and PDA interface — remote control and music streaming from any standard web browser or PDA
- DLNA and UPnP Support
- IR remote
Dimensional Specifications
- Dimensions: 17.5" W X 11.87" D X 4.64" H
Escient FIREBALL SE80 Warranty Details
One-year full warranty covering parts, labor, and telephone support
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