Music Distribution
I have been thinking of simple ways to play music on different floors in my house without schepping (and losing cd’s). I came up with an easy and cheap solution. On the main floor, I put an el-cheapo DVD player, $37.99 after rebate which does MP3′s, WMA’s, DVD’s, SVCD’s, CD’s full of JPEG’s and CD’s. Hooking that into the reciever first allows me to play the tunes, MP3′s in my case, without the TV on. It also made me hook up the TV to the reciever, something I had been meaning to do for 2 1/2 years. While it’s not nearly as slick as the gateway solution or the linksys offering it’s way cheaper. The side benefit is that I don’t have to move my DVD player from floor to floor depending on who want to watch a movie where.
For the upstairs I am considering re-purposing a PC with Freevo, but need to find a cheap and simple remote to go with it.
