On 7/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Glenn Harris</b> <<a href="mailto:gharris+list+mythtv@eklo.com">gharris+list+mythtv@eklo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 7/16/07, Damian <<a href="mailto:damian@gingermagic.co.uk">damian@gingermagic.co.uk</a>> 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>I just looked into this about a month ago. I ended up going with a<br>squeezebox (one for now, it was on sale for father's day, and I found
<br>a $20 off coupon code using google). It is awesome. Very easy to<br>search for music. Plays pandora stations, etc, etc. Tons of plugins.<br>I bought a couple of receivers and speakers off craigslist to plug it into.
<br><br>Ideally I would have 3 or 4 squeezeboxes but I live alone, and it is<br>hard to justify needing one in every room, so I also looked into the<br>netgear MP101.<br><a href="http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MP101.asp">
http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/MP101.asp</a><br>It is kinda like the ugly red-headed step-sister of the squeezebox:<br>lcd, remote, wireless or wired. I don't think they make them anymore,<br>so you have to find them on ebay or some such. I have seen them
<br>listed for around $80-$100.<br>It only plays mp3s, but someone on this list posted a solution to play<br>other formats using on-the-fly transcoding. My notes tell me to<br>'search for mp3fs on the mythtv-users mailing list', and voila:
<br><a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/275128?search_string=mp3fs;#275128">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/275128?search_string=mp3fs;#275128</a></blockquote><div><br> </div>I tried a HomePod (similar idea) but the biggest problem I had was that the music selection was done on the device and if you that picking music to play is bad on MythMusic, try it on a two or three line display with minimal input methods.
<br><br>Kevin<br></div>