[mythtv-users] OT: Stream Music around the house

[Glenn Harris]

On 7/16/07, Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Sorry this is off topic, but you lot are the best people I can think of
> to ask.
>
> What would you do (or what are you doing) to stream music around a house
> into rooms that don't have PC's?

I just looked into this about a month ago.  I ended up going with a
squeezebox (one for now, it was on sale for father's day, and I found
a $20 off coupon code using google).  It is awesome.  Very easy to
search for music.  Plays pandora stations, etc, etc.  Tons of plugins.
I bought a couple of receivers and speakers off craigslist to plug it into.

Ideally I would have 3 or 4 squeezeboxes but I live alone, and it is
hard to justify needing one in every room, so I also looked into the
netgear MP101.
http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MP101.asp
It is kinda like the ugly red-headed step-sister of the squeezebox:
lcd, remote, wireless or wired.  I don't think they make them anymore,
so you have to find them on ebay or some such.  I have seen them
listed for around $80-$100.
It only plays mp3s, but someone on this list posted a solution to play
other formats using on-the-fly transcoding.  My notes tell me to
'search for mp3fs on the mythtv-users mailing list', and voila:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/275128?search_string=mp3fs;#275128

Good luck!

--Glenn