[Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-11 Thread Andy Random
Hi, I'm looking for an *easy* way to play my MP3 collection through speakers in my living room. Right now I play stuff through my MP3 player by pluging it into my hifi, but the hifi itself isn't great quality and it means I have to pull the MP3 player out of the bag I take to work, plug it in

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-11 Thread Rob Smith
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 08:51 -0500, Andy Random wrote: > Hi, [snip] > > Any suggestions? > >Andy > How about a USB caddy full of mp3s, your laptop running something like amarok1.4 and this. http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&source=hp&q=logitech +thx&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=80799470460

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-11 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 11 March 2010 13:51, Andy Random wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for an *easy* way to play my MP3 collection through speakers > in my living room. Ebay for an old NAD amplifier and speakers. Then buy a second mp3 player and dock. Should have loads of change out of 400. Spend the rest on a reall

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-11 Thread Bob Jelf
> > Hi, > > I'm looking for an *easy* way to play my MP3 collection through speakers > in my living room. > If you have a DVD player you could record your MP3s to CD/DVD and play them through the DVD player. This is could be a quick fix for you. Bob Jelf -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailma

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-11 Thread Sean Gibbins
Andy Random wrote: > Any suggestions? I've been contemplating one of these: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=735 It plays just about every file format you'd want to play (inc. mp3s avis oggs and flacs), and it will stream across the network or it will accept a USB drive plug

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Smith
Andy Random wrote: > > I'm looking for an *easy* way to play my MP3 collection through speakers > in my living room. [...] > So what I'd like is a device with a hard disk which will store all my > music, play it through a set of speakers in my living room, has a nice > simple UI, a remote contr

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Brocklehurst
> Remember though that I'm *lazy* and short of free time, suggestions which > say buy this PC/headless media server and install this distro then > configure these packages just won't be useful to me. It might not be > hard to do, but if it is time consuming I just won't get around to it. Don't dis

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-12 Thread Stephen Rowles
On 03/11/2010 01:51 PM, Andy Random wrote: > Budget is no more than 400 UKP (less would be good:) for a fully working > system, though I have a serviceable pair of stereo speaks so if the > solution will connect to standard hifi speakers that price doesn't have to > include speakers. > > Any sugges

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-12 Thread John Dowds
> > Any suggestions? > >   Andy > If your MP3 Player is an iPod, I can recommend the Sony AIR-SA20PK [1], which you can pick up for less than £250. The base station will allow a line out to your current stereo, and the two wireless speakers can go anywhere in the house. If you don't have an iPo

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-12 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 16:15:42 + (+), Chris Smith wrote: > I use a Roku/Pinnacle SoundBridge (which I bought after watching someone > demonstrate it at a HantsLUG talk). It doesn't have a hard-disk, but > does most of what you want. That'll be me :-) I'm still happy with mine and use it

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-15 Thread trotter
At 14:46 11/03/2010, you wrote: >Andy Random wrote: > > Any suggestions? > >I've been contemplating one of these: > >http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=735 > >It plays just about every file format you'd want to play (inc. mp3s avis >oggs and flacs), and it will stream across the ne

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-15 Thread Sean Gibbins
trotter wrote: > At 14:46 11/03/2010, you wrote: > >> Andy Random wrote: >> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >> I've been contemplating one of these: >> >> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=735 >> >> It plays just about every file format you'd want to play (inc. mp3s avis >

Re: [Hampshire] Playing music in my living room

2010-03-15 Thread trotter
At 19:19 15/03/2010, you wrote: >trotter wrote: > > At 14:46 11/03/2010, you wrote: > > > >> Andy Random wrote: > >> > >>> Any suggestions? > >>> > >> I've been contemplating one of these: > >> > >> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=735 > >> > >> It plays just about every file for