I have the same MP3
requirement as many of you, to listen to MP3's anywhere in the house,
however
all of the solutions I have seen seem to have limitations either cost,
functionality or both.
My requirement is simply
this. From any room I wish to be able to choose an MP3 track from a
'central
library' and play it. The
problem
I have with the DDAR is that the display is so small, that selecting a
track
or viewing the current track becomes difficult (unless you have a handy
pair
of binoculars close by).
My thinking is that I
have a
spare machine I could use as a dedicated MP3 player (connected to the LAN)
and
if I could find a simple enough mp3 player software (chunky and easy for
everyone to use) then I could output the screen display and Audio to the
TV,
and use the house AV distribution to provide the visual interface, audio
could
also be provided by the TV (quality not great but acceptable). Control of the system could be
achieved using a USB remote receiver attached to the PC.
Questions:
Is anyone aware of some
decent simple chunky MP3 software that would work well using TV
resolution?
Does anyone have any
experience of the IR Media Remote manufactured by www.keyspan.com -
UK reseller www.ammicro.co.uk