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just managed to link an apple airport express to my home wifi system and then to my hifi, and now I can play all my iTunes library over wifi from the desk computer, the iPad, the wife's I-phone etc. Can also play songs off YouTube or any other Internet site on the iPad and direct the sounds over the wifi network to the hifi speakers.

Was expecting a struggle as my desk computer has no wifi and my router is a bit old school and neither are from the world of apple, but using the iPad I was able to direct the express node to the home network and link them all together.....I have already pissed off the mrs who was trying to watch emerdale when I wanted to show off the new toy, so now I have to tell you lot

didn't understand a word of that.

i get a cd from the rack and put it in the stereo when i want to listen to music.

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you let your missus watch emerdale????

sounds like a really new fangled type of gramaphone.

I think I'll have to go and ask the kids to explain!

Sound clever

AMCQ46 wrote: just managed to link an apple airport express to my home wifi system and then to my hifi, and now I can play all my iTunes library over wifi from the desk computer, the iPad, the wife's I-phone etc. Can also play songs off YouTube or any other Internet site on the iPad and direct the sounds over the wifi network to the hifi speakers.

Was expecting a struggle as my desk computer has no wifi and my router is a bit old school and neither are from the world of apple, but using the iPad I was able to direct the express node to the home network and link them all together.....I have already pissed off the mrs who was trying to watch emerdale when I wanted to show off the new toy, so now I have to tell you lot

Good work Did you have to do any portforwarding on you router and does the express node show as a normal 192.168 address?

I did look into Squeezebox at one point but I have a good enough sound system on the PC for what I need. If I had a better amp set up then I'd definitely look at squeezebox again.

geodude wrote:

AMCQ46 wrote: just managed to link an apple airport express to my home wifi system and then to my hifi, and now I can play all my iTunes library over wifi from the desk computer, the iPad, the wife's I-phone etc. Can also play songs off YouTube or any other Internet site on the iPad and direct the sounds over the wifi network to the hifi speakers.

Was expecting a struggle as my desk computer has no wifi and my router is a bit old school and neither are from the world of apple, but using the iPad I was able to direct the express node to the home network and link them all together.....I have already pissed off the mrs who was trying to watch emerdale when I wanted to show off the new toy, so now I have to tell you lot

Good work Did you have to do any portforwarding on you router and does the express node show as a normal 192.168 address?

I did look into Squeezebox at one point but I have a good enough sound system on the PC for what I need. If I had a better amp set up then I'd definitely look at squeezebox again.

It is all hidden inside the apple tools, so just pops up as an airplay speaker option, and you select where you want the music to come out of. Will allow you to play to multiple speakers if you want, so you could have 1 in every room....you can even set the volume independently for each one.

Is the best solution for me as I prefer music to computers, so all the money is in the HiFi, and the computer has basic speakers and is stashed in a small bedroom up stairs. But when over 50% of my music is now only digital (still have a turntable, but now I have recorded all my vinyl to MP3 as well I don't use it), this solution gives me instant acess to all of it, and the iPad makes a great remote control to search for the next song, or making up a play list....and if someone wants a song I don't have, I just find it on YouTube and play it out the sound system as well

AMCQ46 wrote:

geodude wrote:

AMCQ46 wrote: Will allow you to play to multiple speakers if you want, so you could have 1 in every room....

ahhh, the good old days of mono, and loadsa speakers, takes me back to my teens.....

Congratulations on successfully installing your new music centre.
Now you just need to run cables for speakers all over the house, toilet, garage, and some for the garden disguised to look like rocks.

If you plug in a set of wireless headphones, you could just wear those and save on cabling?


But are you a real man, or did you look at the manual/instructions?

sounds like your well set up there Al, I just use a 3.5mm phono cable from the laptop where i sit to the surround sound, which is a pc surround sound system because i didnt want a bloody dvd player (this one clicky! ) its also pretty good because i can connect my phone to it, and because all my music is on my external network hard drive i can access it all through the ps3 to and play it through the surround sound. (the ps3 is also wired into the bedroom so can have the music on in there to though the sound off the tv is sh1t) then i have THIS in the garage with the optional bluetooth adapter for connecting to the laptop or phone.

the best bit of all is the missus doesnt understand it all so it gets left alone

I love it when a plan comes together (I think you're old enough to remember that one )

Well done Alistair

Chris.