Re: [PLUG] music station

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:41:06PM -0500, ChrisB. wrote:
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> What about something such as the Linksys wireless music system? 
> 
> It seems to retail for around $100 and the description states that it "lets
> you bring the digital music stored on your computer to your Home
> Entertainment Center, without running cables through the house"

They're pretty cagey about what protocols they use over the network.
I'm not comfortable installing non-free software (or, at least,
non-open-source software) on my box.


linksys makes a network storage device that's been pretty nicely
hacked, see here, for example:

    http://www.batbox.org/nslu2-linux.html

If only it had a sound card!

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 Jeff

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