12-10-2007, 08:18 PM
I would like to be able to listen to relatively good fidelity music, including vinyl, CDs, and also my iTunes collection, in my living room, kitchen and perhaps elsewhere in the house with remote access without the need to visit my computer to change music. There's a very nice 70s stereo system with CD, turntable, cassette, etc in my living room, and I was thinking of adding a second set of speakers in the kitchen (the previous owner had installed speaker wire to these locations already). However, I'm not sure of the best way to integrate my iTunes collection into this system. I prefer to not have my computer running all the time.
Here are some alternatives I can think of:
1. Ideally, I would put my iPod in a dock on the stereo then have some way to control the iPod remotely, or perhaps get an iPod touch and have it stream directly to an Airport Express hooked into the stereo. Is this possible?...Is there a gizmo out there that does this?
2. Keep the mac running, buy an Airport Express to hook to the stereo, buy a cheap used bluetooth phone or Palm or some cheap wifi device and use Sailing Clicker to control iTunes on the mac (unfortunately my current bluetooth phone is a Cingular RAZR which is apparently incompatible with Sailing Clicker).
3. Buy a cheap as dirt additional mac (ideas?) that functions only as an iTunes server, hook it straight into the stereo and use Sailing Clicker to control that. The concern I have with this is that I don't want to keep a computer running and burning up energy all the time...can Sailing Clicker wake a computer from sleep?
Or, perhaps there are some other options or products that I'm not thinking of. It seems to me that there should be a lot of people out there that would want to do this. Is there an easy comprehensive solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?
Your thoughts?
Here are some alternatives I can think of:
1. Ideally, I would put my iPod in a dock on the stereo then have some way to control the iPod remotely, or perhaps get an iPod touch and have it stream directly to an Airport Express hooked into the stereo. Is this possible?...Is there a gizmo out there that does this?
2. Keep the mac running, buy an Airport Express to hook to the stereo, buy a cheap used bluetooth phone or Palm or some cheap wifi device and use Sailing Clicker to control iTunes on the mac (unfortunately my current bluetooth phone is a Cingular RAZR which is apparently incompatible with Sailing Clicker).
3. Buy a cheap as dirt additional mac (ideas?) that functions only as an iTunes server, hook it straight into the stereo and use Sailing Clicker to control that. The concern I have with this is that I don't want to keep a computer running and burning up energy all the time...can Sailing Clicker wake a computer from sleep?
Or, perhaps there are some other options or products that I'm not thinking of. It seems to me that there should be a lot of people out there that would want to do this. Is there an easy comprehensive solution that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?
Your thoughts?