music servers, remotes, etc..

[James R. Coplin]

I use a pair of Roku Soundbridges.  Work flawlessly with wired or wireless
Ethernet and sounds great.  My house has wired Ethernet in every room so I
use the wired connection.  I always have preferred the hard trunk to
wireless ho ha.  The wireless works though.  The VFD display is easily
readable and you get internet radio streaming to boot. Another upside, it
isn't particularly expensive new.  It's common used on ebay.  Put one
everywhere you have an amp input.

http://www.roku.com/products_soundbridge.php

I'm just using Microsoft's Media sharing but it also works with many other
bridge options.  My server currently holds around 18,000 tracks and the
bridge seems to have little problem in managing it all.  Browsing by track
may take a while though! ;)

James R. Coplin

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org [mailto:music-bar-
> bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of M-.-n
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 3:37 AM
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: music servers, remotes, etc..
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm currently brainstorming about the best way to achieve a the
> streaming of
> music to my hifi. At the moment I'm running a little phillips streamium
> connected to my amplifier and pulling the audio from a TVersity media
> server
> in another room. It's pretty good with the only drawback being that the
> searching capabilities are quite small and you need to be pretty close
> to
> the device to be able to read anything from it. Pulling audio tho it's
> great, although sometimes I wished I could grab my DS and tell the
> server
> what to play.
> 
> The other solution (providing that I don't want a puter on my living
> room)
> would be to use something like airport. I guess that in that context,
> the
> perfect solution would be to run iTunes on the current server and
> control it
> from a remote iPod (although I haven't seen if it was very convenient)
> but
> I'd love to be able to stay off the apple.
> 
> Anyone with a nice setup ? Ideally I would like to have only one
> machine
> running, even if I have loads of old lappy lying around, I'm not too
> found
> of having to boot things to listen to music.
> 
> Thanks for any hints
> Marc
> 
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