Friday, January 6, 2012

Escient FireBall ZP-1 Network Music Player


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Rating: 2.0

List Price : $499.00 Price : $347.00
Escient FireBall ZP-1 Network Music Player

Product Description

The ZP-1 is the latest FireBall Networked Music Player that provides all of the familiar on-screen browsing and control features of the Escient FireBall. Each ZP-1 provides independent audio, control, and on-screen music access, allowing you to play music from a FireBall server independently in every room of your home.


  • Use your TV to access and play all your digital music on your home theater system or in different rooms
  • Supports streaming PCM, MP3, FLAC (CD Quality), WMA, AAC
  • Built-in 10/100BaseT Ethernet networking; Wired IR, RS232 and Ethernet port for 3rd party external control interfaces
  • Web interface for remote control via web browser; PDA interface for controlling from any pocket-sized web device
  • Wireless network compatible via optional WiFi 802.11 network adapters


Escient FireBall ZP-1 Network Music Player Reviews


Escient FireBall ZP-1 Network Music Player Reviews


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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Buggy software, difficult to use music manager on PC, March 20, 2008
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M. Johnson (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Escient FireBall ZP-1 Network Music Player (Electronics)
I have had two of these for about a year now. In that time, I've discovered these issues:

1. The Fireball PC software used to manage your music from a PC or Mac is kludgy, slow, and unreliable. I have never been able to get it to run without crashing on my iMac running Leopard. Escient claims it works on an iMac, but it doesn't, in my experience. (And I am running a brand new iMac purchased in December of 2007). As a result, I have to run the Escient PC software on a Windows PC rather than a Mac.

2. If you are used to music player software like iTunes, Escient's PC software will drive you nuts because it is so slow and crude. It feels like it was designed in 1996 and has never been usability tested or updated since. For example, there is no way to simply play all songs by an artist--which you can easily do in iTunes or Windows Media Player. With Escient's software, to queue up all the songs in your collection by an artist, you must first add all the... Read more
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