RE: Re: Whole House Audio

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Johannes,

> Instreamer

Yes - this sounds excellent. I would be interested in one of these. How
about a single embedded device that include the FM tuner?

> Sync mode

This would, again, be useful.

> xAP based control interface

The xAP group would be very interested in working with you on this.
Could we open a discussion on the xAPAutomation list?

> Other wish list items

Any chance of an Exstreamer with a digital out? Either SP/DIF _or_
TOSLINK would be fine...

M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Johannes Rietschel <jr@xxxxxxx> [mailto:jr@xxxxxxx] 
Sent: 29 December 2002 22:31
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Whole House Audio


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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