I recently transferred ALL my 4000-plus cd’s to MP3. This is great, no more mess with CD’s!
But now I want to have music in the kitchen and don’t know how to stream from the computer to my kitchen. Plus, I don’t really have room for another stereo system—not much room for anything more than some speakers. I saw the terratec HD MP3 player, but you also need a screen to navigate the contents, as well as an amp for it as well.
Are there wireless speakers? Or is there a really small unit (maybe with a HD) that won’t be too expensive? I don’t want to get one of those iPod-hooked-up-to-those-speakers systems.
I use Sony’s wireless speaker system to get audio out to my kitchen and an Airport Express to get it to my living room stereo. I don’t need superb sound when I listen to mp3 files in the kitchen, so the Sony works fine for me. It has good range and a nice design and sounds good without taking up a ton of space.
I’ve been looking music serving options too. Here’s everthing I’ve run into although some won’t meet your needs. I really like the Slim Devices Squeezebox but it’s pricey and designed for attachment to a stereo system. When I was looking I ran into a really nice comparison chart of features and supported music formats. If I find it again I’ll post it.
[quote author=“S Man”]I use Sony’s wireless speaker system to get audio out to my kitchen and an Airport Express to get it to my living room stereo. I don’t need superb sound when I listen to mp3 files in the kitchen, so the Sony works fine for me. It has good range and a nice design and sounds good without taking up a ton of space.
Good solution if you don’t want or need control of the player. I picked up a recoton unit and feed the transmitter from a Y-cable on my desktop PC output jack. Nice little unit, takes D-Cells or AC adapter. Great in the yard, by the hot tub etc. Got mine a while back on sale for $60.
It pretty much filled up a 200 GB drive at 128-192 kps, since some cd’s are of old albums from the 70’s with 35 mins of music. But I whittled off some of the filler songs on several albums and it now fits on a 160 GB HD.
Oh man, it took me forever, since I did it all myself. But now I have no more cd swapping to do, which is great. Only thing that worries me is when (or if) FLAC will become a more mainstream format, since I’ll probably want to re-encode them again.
[quote author=“babahi”]It pretty much filled up a 200 GB drive at 128-192 kps, since some cd’s are of old albums from the 70’s with 35 mins of music. But I whittled off some of the filler songs on several albums and it now fits on a 160 GB HD.
Oh man, it took me forever, since I did it all myself. But now I have no more cd swapping to do, which is great. Only thing that worries me is when (or if) FLAC will become a more mainstream format, since I’ll probably want to re-encode them again.
I’d also be worried about a HD crash…
My collection, 80 GB or so, is in 3 locations, because I don’t have a way to get all my Mp3s back. If you keep your original CDs then you don’t need to worry.
damn, how do u manage to get 80 gb of mp3 or even 200 gb of mp3s? i only have 20 gb, but then these mp3s are all download (no cd rips), i haven’t rip my couple hundred cds cause i m lazy….
[quote author=“gameson”]damn, how do u manage to get 80 gb of mp3 or even 200 gb of mp3s? i only have 20 gb, but then these mp3s are all download (no cd rips), i haven’t rip my couple hundred cds cause i m lazy….
Years of freely collecting until some idiot released napster and the whole world heard of Mp3s….what a jerk, life was good before 12 year old girls could get free music.
