[mythtv-users] OT: Stream Music around the house

[Peter Loron]

J. Joseph Benavidez wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007, Damian wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Sorry this is off topic, but you lot are the best people I can think of 
>> to ask.
>>
>> What would you do (or what are you doing) to stream music around a house 
>> into rooms that don't have PC's?

You have rooms in your house without PC's?!?!?

>> My girlfriend really wants to have music in whichever room she's in, not 
>> just blast it from one room in the hope that she can hear it while she's 
>> doing other things. I can easily put some speakers in a couple of the 
>> main rooms, but what are my options for what to plug them into? I've 
>> wondered about outputting a radio signal from the main music computer 
>> that could be picked up by a low cost unit placed with the speakers in 
>> each room but I'd love to hear your thoughts. Ideally, she'd be able to 
>> have some level of control over the sound and even which music files are 
>> playing, but maybe that's asking a bit much without another computer 
>> present.
>>
>> As ever, cost is an issue. If the best solutions are expensive, I guess 
>> I could just wire metres of stereo cable around the house. That may even 
>> be the best option come to think of it. I have a wired network between 
>> all my machines because I'm over paranoid of WiFi health risks. 
>> Especially with a new baby on the way.

Squeezebox is pretty good:

http://www.slimdevices.com/

-Pete