Fw: Whole House Audio Touchscreen Setup on a Budget

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

aye - tis splashproof

Gareth Cook
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Wow can you take a sonos controller into the shower?! at the risk of
getting scared can we have pics ;) ideally from female ukha'rs!! lol





--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Gareth Cook <g@...> wrote:
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> Controller - about 7 hrs without using any power saving options.
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> And I bet you cant take your ipod into the shower :-)
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> G.
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>  Gareth Cook
>  IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales Europe
>  Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
>  email: g@xxxxxxx
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> Sonos can use a Mac, PC, or NAS as the back end for your local
streams.
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> If you sign up to one of the music services (ie Pandora, Napster)
you dont
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> even need any local storage - just connect Sonos to the internet. No
PC's,
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> no NAS, nowt.
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> G.
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>  Gareth Cook
>  IT Architect / Project Manager, SWG Sales Europe
>  Office: +44 (0)1784 445166 - Mobile: +44 (0)7980 445166
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> But my SWMBO is a Mac freak.
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> As long as I can get everything setup so it is easy for her to use
and she
> doesn't have to see the nuts and bolts it would be fine.
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> Does the Sonos remote have a long battery life? But a touch screen
ipod
> looks so much cooler!
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> Ho Yin
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> On 03/01/2008, Sean <thunderchilduk@...> wrote:
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> >   Hmmm tbh I know that when I looked at getting airport/mac swmbo
> > approval was very low.
> >
> > The Sonos does what it says on the tin with no tweaking or
fiddling,
> > it just works (sounds like another product I know).
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> > I can't think of anything that sonos can do, that a home computer
> > setup with custom made scripts couldn't replicate.
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> > But I know know what one my wife would choose ;)
> >
> > Sean
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> > On Jan 2, 2008 12:43 PM, Ho Yin Ng
> <architect.hoyin@...<architect.hoyin%40gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
> > > Thanks Mark
> > >
> > > It looks good and coupled with EyeTV I might go for this
over Sonos.
> > >
> > > Different zones don't bother me as my place is too small.
> > >
> > > Can anyone think of something that the Sonos would offer me
that
this
> > setup
> > > would not?
> > >
> > > Ho Yin
> > >
> > > On 01/01/2008, Mark McCall
> <lists@...<lists%40automatedhome.co.uk>>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Submission by Noel Andrews - I love the idea of Sonos
but for
me the
> > > > price
> > > > is prohibitive. Being almost entirely a Mac household
I've used an
> > airport
> > > > express for a few months now and with the release of
the Ipod
touch
> > and
> > > > the
> > > > discovery of Remote Buddy seeds of a solution were
planted.
Read on
> to
> > > > find
> > > > out how I put these items together to create my own
budget priced
> > whole
> > > > house audio solution...
> > > >
> > > > http://tinyurl.com/2y7bpf
> > > >
> > > > M.
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
> > --
> > Programming today is a race between software engineers striving
to
> > build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe
trying
> > to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is
winning.
> >
> > - Unknown
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