Debating about the new Squeezebox2, but for some reason I can't even get its software based player - Softsqueeze - to consistently work. I've had minor customer service contact with them, but the one call I made (asking if they were at Macworld after they wrote me in email they would be and in were in vender list, but not on show floor) really didn't go well. Maybe it was a bad day or something, but at this point I don't want to have to count on their help, if it ends up being buggy. I have a pretty clean system (not that it matters as much on OS X), so I'm not sure what is up, but anyway I was wondering who's running Squeezebox1 on OS X and what their experiences are.

One bump just in case.
Even any comments about OS X users that have used SLIMP3 would be appreciated.

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I ordered one as an upgrade for my original Squeezebox (which I bought at the 2003 MacWorld, by the way). I am in the process of ripping all my CDs to ALAC on my Mac (Dual 2GHz PowerMac G5). SlimServer will stream ALAC just fine (it decodes it to PCM, which isn't a problem as I use wired Ethernet only - no jitter for me, thanks). I have the Squeezebox set up in my bedroom hooked up to a Headroom Little.

The Squeezebox works fine, but its buffer was sized for MP3 and is a little on the short side for 1.4Mbps uncompressed 44KHz PCM audio. Very occasionally the SlimServer software would skip, not because of CPU or bandwidth issues, but because the Perl software would stutter while doing a database update concurrently with data transfer. The new model has a seriously upgraded buffer which should be good for a minute's worth and make this problem a thing of the past. I just upgraded to SlimServer 6 beta, and haven't noticed any transients yet.

P.S. Have you noticed Apple labels all its products as "Designed by Apple in California"? What do they know we don't