Music in the house

Norbert666 · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:14

Apologies if this is the wrong forum - it's bound to be - but I couldn't decide whether it was music, audio visual, hardware or something completely different.

Anyway, I want to put speakers in every room of the house, all connected to my pc. I then want the ability to play music in specific rooms. i.e. kitchen and living room. or upstairs only. Is that possible? how?

My current knowledge of computer music is that I have mp3s and I can play them in iTunes. That's it.

The pc is upstairs in my office. Downstairs I have a home cinema setup as well as a pretty good stereo system, if that makes any difference.

Thanks

James

Matt · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:17

Should be in AV really

Anyway, this could get expensive very quickly. How would you like to control it all? As you could do it several ways, eg. remote (like a Pronto), pda, touchscreens, etc...

Check the http://avforums.com , they would probably be the people who would be able to help you out properly.

Apopcalyptic · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:17

You've a couple of options really - The first is Airtunes, whereby you basically have an Apple wireless access point with a 3.5mm jack socket in each room.

Or, there's a stereo system that's been out a little while now, which I can't for the life of me remember the manufacturer. BAsically you need a main base station (approx £600), and a slave for each room (approx £200)...

THere's probably more options, but I'm hungover

Norbert666 · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:21

Apopcalyptic said:
BAsically you need a main base station (approx £600), and a slave for each room (approx £200)...

Jesus

Can't I just run some cables round the house or something?

HEADRAT · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:21

Something like this might do the trick

http://www.slimdevices.com/

HEADRAT

Kerplunk · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:22

Norbert666 said:
Jesus

Can't I just run some cables round the house or something?

Cheapskate

penski · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:25

Linksys wireless music bridge thingy?

About £60 a pop.

*n

Norbert666 · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:28

biggest problem is, i dont understand this stuff.

it's the same as networking pcs. i have a router (is that what its called?) that lets me have 2 pcs on the net at the same time. but i've never installed it/set ip up as i just dont get it

basmic · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:41

I would imagine you need a cheap amp, and drape the cables from the amp around the house as you desire.

Mr Man · 14 Mar 2006 at 10:42

As I think has been mentioned the Slimdevices Squeezebox will do the job nicely

Doug · 14 Mar 2006 at 11:05

I have one word for you: Sonos.

It truely is the simplest, most elegant solution.

HEADRAT · 14 Mar 2006 at 11:11

And probably the most expensive

two rooms for £ 949.00 :eek:

HEADRAT

Doug · 14 Mar 2006 at 11:27

I was going to say that, but decided not to

Matblack · 14 Mar 2006 at 11:28

penski said:
Linksys wireless music bridge thingy?

About £60 a pop.

*n

Yep or some other form of this will be fine.

They aren't too hard to set up and its basically a case of reading the instructions

They will enable you too stream anything on your hard drive wirelessly to a hifi system with a phono in, if you want compact somthing like a Denon M30 mini system would probably suit you so you can have CD and radio too

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MB