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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi All,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have been running myth for over a year now, and
have loved almost every minute of it. Unlike most of my projects that I start,
my Wife actually supports this one, and gets more upset than me when things are
not working right. I want to thank everyone for all of their work, and support
over the last year.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>We have been in our new house for almost a year and I
am running my one tuner card backend in my basement office, with an Xbox frontend
in the Great Room. I am soon going to be adding a frontend in the Master
Bedroom. When we built I prewired for stereo speakers in the ceiling in our
Living Room and Master Bedroom. I have a Luxman amp in the Great Room which
powers the speakers in both the Great Room and Master Bedroom. There are volume
controls in each of these rooms. Here is where the advanced setup comes in.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I want to be able to have my MP3s eminate from the
speakers in both the master bedroom and the living room but not be driven by
the frontend in the Great Room. I could either add a new frontend in the
basement for only MP3 use or use the backend to play the MP3s. The speaker
wiring from the basement to the amp is not an issue. I would like to use some
sort of wireless device to select the MP3s such as a WAP device, or with a wifi
enabled HP Jornada 820 Handheld PC, which has a very large screen and runs an
early version of pocket Internet Explorer. The other Idea is to use a 3com
Audrey or something like that.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>First of all has anyone ever created just a MP3 frontend?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Can my existing backend play MP3s to the speakers
upstairs while still outputting video downstairs?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any ideas how to remotely control the frontend/backend
that will be playing the MP3s? Something like mythweb maybe?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thanks for your help and ideas!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-CA style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Darren</span></font></p>
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