Fw: Whole House Audio Touchscreen Setup on a Budget

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sonos can use a Mac, PC, or NAS as the back end for your local
streams.

If you sign up to one of the music services (ie Pandora, Napster) you dont
even need any local storage - just connect Sonos to the internet. No PC's,
no NAS, nowt.

G.

Gareth Cook
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But my SWMBO is a Mac freak.

As long as I can get everything setup so it is easy for her to use and she
doesn't have to see the nuts and bolts it would be fine.

Does the Sonos remote have a long battery life? But a touch screen ipod
looks so much cooler!

Ho Yin

On 03/01/2008, Sean <thunderchilduk@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hmmm tbh I know that when I looked at getting airport/mac swmbo
> approval was very low.
>
> The Sonos does what it says on the tin with no tweaking or fiddling,
> it just works (sounds like another product I know).
>
> I can't think of anything that sonos can do, that a home computer
> setup with custom made scripts couldn't replicate.
>
> But I know know what one my wife would choose ;)
>
> Sean
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 12:43 PM, Ho Yin Ng
<architect.hoyin@xxxxxxx<architect.hoyin%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > Thanks Mark
> >
> > It looks good and coupled with EyeTV I might go for this over
Sonos.
> >
> > Different zones don't bother me as my place is too small.
> >
> > Can anyone think of something that the Sonos would offer me that
this
> setup
> > would not?
> >
> > Ho Yin
> >
> > On 01/01/2008, Mark McCall
<lists@xxxxxxx<lists%40automatedhome.co.uk>>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Submission by Noel Andrews - I love the idea of Sonos but
for me the
> > > price
> > > is prohibitive. Being almost entirely a Mac household I've
used an
> airport
> > > express for a few months now and with the release of the
Ipod touch
> and
> > > the
> > > discovery of Remote Buddy seeds of a solution were planted.
Read on
to
> > > find
> > > out how I put these items together to create my own budget
priced
> whole
> > > house audio solution...
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.com/2y7bpf
> > >
> > > M.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> --
> Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
> build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
> to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
>
> - Unknown
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