The award winning Escient FireBall Digital Music Manager is now available at a more affordable price - $999! You get the same great features as the current FireBall Music Managers, including: extremely easy to use on-screen interface, 80GB of music storage, automatic disc recognition, built-in CD-RW drive, free Internet Radio, network file sharing, web browser control and streaming, multi-zone support and several new features such as a PDA web interface, WMA audio, Shoutcast Internet Radio, gapless song playback, enhanced widescreen user interface, and the ability to “skin” the interface for the ultimate customization for your customers – all at a new low price. The FireBall SE-80 is the perfect solution for entry-level single room and IR based multi-room distributed music installations.

MUSIC SERVER FEATURES

• 80GB hard drive – enough storage for large music collections

• Instant Music Access – instantly find and play any genre, artist, title or song in your music collection

• Built-in CD Player – play any standard CD and get the cover art, artist, title and song list on-screen

• Automatic CD Identification – uses Gracenote CDDB™ for the best possible CD data matching in the world

• CD Burner – create the perfect mix CD to play in your car, office, or portable CD player

• Fast CD Ripper – copy a CD to the internal hard drive in MP3 format in less than 5 minutes

• Multi-Zone Support – Connect one FireBall to another FireBall to share the music, double the storage capacity, and create a second music zone or add FireBall MP-150 players for music in every room.

• Gapless Audio Playback – no more gaps between tracks when you rip classical or live CDs

• Fully Customizable – create and edit your own Playlists, Genres, and Internet Radio Stations

• Free WMA and Shoutcast Internet Radio – high quality Internet Radio stations updated automatically using the Escient RadioDB Tuning Service

INTERFACE AND CONTROL FEATURES

• On-screen Graphical User Interface – often imitated, but never duplicated, simply the best interface around can now be customized with themes and personalized backgrounds to match any décor

• PC File Sharing – transfer music files to and from your PC and Mac

• FireBall-PC – support for browsing and playing music stored on PC or Mac

• Web Server and PDA Interface – remote control and music streaming from any standard web browser or PDA

• DLNA/UPnP Support – connect, control, and play your music from any standard DLNA/UPnP media adapter

• Keypad Friendly IR Based Control – Instant access to any playlist, genre, artist, album, song title, or Internet Radio station using IR macros - great for Universal Remotes and IR based multi-room distribution systems

KEY FEATURES:

• 80GB internal hard drive for storing digital music files

• Built-in CD-RW drive for playing, burning and ripping CDs

• Simple and intuitive on-screen user interface for browsing, selecting, and playing music, Internet Radio stations and for all system configuration and setup functions

• Automatic CD identification using Gracenote CDDB™ with cover art provided by AMG

• PC File Sharing for transferring music files to and from a PC or Mac (includes support for iPod, Rio, and other portable players)

• FireBall-PC support for browsing and playing music stored on PC or Mac

• Web interface for remote control and music streaming via any standard web browser

• PDA interface for controlling FireBall from any pocket sized web enabled device

• Create custom playlists and genres

• Music playback in repeat and random modes

• Play any WMA or Shoutcast Internet Radio stations

• Create and edit Internet Radio stations

• Connects to other FireBall Music Servers to share music libraries

• User selectable 16x9 or 4:3 on screen TV user interface

• Gapless playback feature for classical and live recordings

• Customizable User Interface skins for an exciting new look