Hi,

I have searched everywhere for a component type of MP3 player that you
connect to your home stereo system. Apparently, no company makes one yet.
The first company (how about it Apple, Sony, whoever) that makes one, I will
be a customer.

This unit, with flash memory, you first connect to your computer via USB
port and transfer your music library to it. Then, you connect it to your home
stereo system, and plug it into 120VAC (no batteries).

Sure, I know you can connect an Ipod or similar device to a home
stereo, or use a computer, but that is not what I consider the ideal
"component".

As an alternative, I bought a component CD player that also plays CDs
with MP3 music files, but navigating the "albums" is slow, and it doesn't
remember where you stopped playing so you can resume another time,
when you turn off the power.

Brad

Before you type your password, credit card number, etc.,
be sure there is no active keystroke logger (spyware) in your PC.

Brad wrote:
Sounds kinda impractical to me. There are already systems on the market
which use a wireless network connection so you can transfer music to
them using your home network. If you have a high-speed internet
connection and a wireless router then you're already all set.

Take a look a Sonos

www.sonos.com

very nice music system -- can have zones of music throughout the house

I'm very please with the system I bought --

no cheap, but very good for MP3 play - internet radio -- even can integrate
with online music stores

Get music via your network from share on a computer or you can use a NAS
device to store all your music and access it all over the house

one zone player unit is best on your wired network so it has clean access to
your music and then all the other zone players can talk wireless to the
sonos network of zone players

the controller and PC software work well

the zone players come in a model with an amplifier so all you do is add
speaker -- another model is without amplifier and had digiatl output
designed to connect to your own receiver or amp..




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"Brad" <bpetria@verizon.net> wrote in message
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I guess I'm unclear on what you're trying to do. What is the ideal
component? What, for example, will the combination of the Zune and its A/V
dock not do that you want to do?

http://www.zune.net/en-us/accessorie...homeavpack.htm

TB

Brad wrote:
Who needs another component? If your media computer has a soundcard
has a digital-out, run it to a receiver that has a digital coax-in. My
computer is about 50' away from the reciever; I made a cable out of 75
ohm TV cable. Works great. I just use XP with Windows media player.

Also, using XP on my laptop, I can use remote desktop to *control*
the media computer (the one with the MP3's and digital soundcard) from
anywhere in range via wireless ethernet.

--
Rayvan