Re: Music _selection_ via xAP

["Mark Harrison (Groups)" <mph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin Hawkins wrote:

>Hi Mark,
>
>    Not totally sure what your trying to home in on here...    so
>perhaps offtrack but....
>
>
>
We have a client for whom I'd like to use a xAP solution.

The client wants, in each of four rooms, a wall-mounted "small
panel"
from which he can control music in that room. Not only selecting from a
list of MP3s, but also selecting which source (several whole house feeds
from things like 2 off, Sky boxes, radio, etc.)

All of this is relatively straightforward to implement by a VFD panel
and a set of networked inputs on a NetIOM / HomeVision / webbrick, all
of which would lend themselves to a xAP solution. Writing a menuing
system to display on such a panel that sends out xAP messages at the
appropriate time is, again, not overly tricky.

What I have, today, with my Rios, is a solution that would allow passing
of Audio transport messages over xAP, but not audio selection. I
personally have neither a SliMP3 nor an exstreamer to play with, so
can't tell whether they could do everything I need. One, obvious,
solution is to mount a SliMP3 in the wall, using _that_ as the
display... but that's not ideal from an audio signal perspective, since
I'd need to route sound back from each Slim to the amps at line level,
concealed.

M.