Re: Whole House Audio

["Johannes Rietschel <jr@xxxxxxx>" <jr@xxxxxxx>]

One thing my wife complains is that she cannot listen to many
local radio stations (which only broadcast fm), and 
other "conventional" audio sources (does anybody still use
a-tapes?).
We're working on matching the Exstreamer with an "Instreamer"
which 
takes audio and realtime-encodes to mp3/ethernet to solve that 
problem. Another thing we have seen frequently as a request (not 
really adressed well yet in the market) is the "multi-room" 
synchronisation, that you can listen to the "same" audio in
multiple 
zones. In Exstreamer we added a sync mode to solve this (sync to 
another exstreamer).
What I would really like to have is an (xAP based?) control interface 
at the wall with IR receiver, light "switch" and a few audio 
controls/display. not too fancy, otherwise my mother-in-law will 
never visit again after listening for hours to hardrock (in her 
guestroom, thanks to my hacking son :-). such a panel must (imho) 
have less controls, but use them effectively.

Johannes


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Stuart Poulton <stuart.poulton@a...> 
wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> It is now possible with products that have come to market over the
past 12 
> months and the introduction of xAP, that a solution to Whole-House
Audio 
> is available. If you could buy off the shelf a modular system to do
whole 
> house audio with the following
> 
> MP3 playback
> Speech announcements
> Independant Display, and decoder units.
> xAP controlable
> 
> What else would you like to do ?
> I know that there are existing solutions
> 
> DDAR
> Slimp3
> MP3Elf
> exstreamer
> Audiotron
> 
> But all have there good and bad points, I'd like to hear what 
people think 
> is good, and what people think is bad.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Stuart




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