[Noisebridge-discuss] Objections to Airport Express for Airtunes?

[Shannon Lee]

I don't want to set up my laptop every time I want to listen to music -- Im
much more likely to be doing *something else* in the space than computer
work.  Plus, this doesn't give the oportunity for me to put something into
the playlist after whatever's already playing, thus seamlessly taking over
the music or even playing with someone else.

In addition to which, I have more music than can fit on my laptop's
harddrive, and I'd rather have it at the space where I can play it than be
limited to whatever I happen to have downloaded recently.

I'm strongly in favor of a jukebox solution.

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> The solution offered by Airtunes is (personally opinion) vastly better then
> a client/server setup that one can get with a Slimserver or XBMC. I'd much
> rather point iTunes (or whatever else) at speakers and start streaming, as
> opposed to going to a client and tell it where to find music, then interface
> with in order to get that music playing. This is sort of like having to deal
> with two computers instead of one.
>
> Don't get me wrong, Slimserver and XBMC are great if you're running a
> headless storage solution on the network and need something to pull and play
> it without setting up a full on machine o do so. But when you've already
> sitting down with your laptop open and facing you, why would you want to
> deal with getting your library of music setup on a secondary machine?
>
>
> On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:37 PM, grey wrote:
>
>  I think the slimserver stuff is way better than airport expresses.
>> Plays flac's and all; but if you've got an airport express already
>> *shrug*.
>>
>> A machine running xbmc is pretty rad too. ;)
>>
>> -grey
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I wish there was a free open source way of doing this but there sort of
>>> isn't at the moment. Are any objections to me setting up an Airport
>>> Express
>>> next to the stereo receiver to stream music/audio to? Jinzora is neat and
>>> all, but kind of still a pain of a project to navigate and utilize.
>>>
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