I'll chime in about slimserver being ace, and add that the software is open and freely available, along with a java based software emulator for the squeezebox hardware, so you could try before you buy, or just use the emulators on PCs.
<br><br>Gary<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Peter Loron</b> <<a href="mailto:peterl@standingwave.org">peterl@standingwave.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
J. Joseph Benavidez wrote:<br>> On Monday 16 July 2007, Damian wrote:<br>>> Hello all,<br>>><br>>> Sorry this is off topic, but you lot are the best people I can think of<br>>> to ask.<br>>>
<br>>> What would you do (or what are you doing) to stream music around a house<br>>> into rooms that don't have PC's?<br><br>You have rooms in your house without PC's?!?!?<br><br>>> My girlfriend really wants to have music in whichever room she's in, not
<br>>> just blast it from one room in the hope that she can hear it while she's<br>>> doing other things. I can easily put some speakers in a couple of the<br>>> main rooms, but what are my options for what to plug them into? I've
<br>>> wondered about outputting a radio signal from the main music computer<br>>> that could be picked up by a low cost unit placed with the speakers in<br>>> each room but I'd love to hear your thoughts. Ideally, she'd be able to
<br>>> have some level of control over the sound and even which music files are<br>>> playing, but maybe that's asking a bit much without another computer<br>>> present.<br>>><br>>> As ever, cost is an issue. If the best solutions are expensive, I guess
<br>>> I could just wire metres of stereo cable around the house. That may even<br>>> be the best option come to think of it. I have a wired network between<br>>> all my machines because I'm over paranoid of WiFi health risks.
<br>>> Especially with a new baby on the way.<br><br>Squeezebox is pretty good:<br><br><a href="http://www.slimdevices.com/">http://www.slimdevices.com/</a><br><br>-Pete<br>_______________________________________________
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