Re: Playing Music from WMP11 wirelessly to my Hi-Fi


Ryan_Npton wrote:
At the moment I have all my CD's ripped to my Laptop (via a network drive
because the Laptop HD is too small!) and I plug a lead into the headphones
socket and trail a lead across my living room to my Hi-Fi AV Amplifier.

The beauty is that I can sit with the lap top next to me and listen to
whatever music I like on my nice Hi-Fi.

What I want to do is get rid of the lead from the headphones jack to the
Amplifier on the Hi-fi.....but I can't find anything in the market that will
let me do this. I did find out that iTunes + AirPort Express allows you to
do just that!!! The Airport Express is a wireless receiver that receives the
"audio" signal from iTunes via a little plug in iTunes (there's a drop down
box, where you select, play from speakers on computer or send signal to
Airport Express). This sounds perfect but I don't want to use iTunes ( I
have >10,000 tracks all ripped to WMA).

So my question is, does anyone know how to do this with WMP11? Are
Microsoft missing a trick here or am I an unusual case?

By the way all the Digital Media Receivers I've seen don't do this
either....yes they allow you to share your playlists but you have to use the
DMR interface to play music and I want to use WMP as the interface.


Since you can get a signal to your sound equipment using an audio cable
to it, you can use just about any wireless audio transmitter device.
You just connect your sound output from your computer to the audio
transmitter. Then the remote audio receiver connects to the line input
of your audio equipment or just some remote speakers with built in
amplifiers. In fact there are remote speaker kits that come with a
transmitter and two speakers that have the receiver built in. If you
also want to control the computer remotely, that is quite possible too.
For computers that use a remote control, you can get the Powermid
system made by X-10, among others. It has a transmitter which you have
at your remote location, and you take your remote control to where you
want to listen. When you point an IR remote control at the transmitter,
it converts the IR light signal to an electrical signal and transmits
over the house wiring. A recever converts the electrical signal back to
an IR signal, and you aim this to where you would aim your computer
remote control. There are also many devices for directly controlling a
computer remotely or having a computer control remote lights, machines,
etc. You will find all sorts of home automation devices at Smarthome.
Their site is www.smarthome.com . They also have a factory store at
16542 Millikan Avenue; Irvine, CA 92606.

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