[kenwoodchef]

Hello....I am looking to buy a squeezebox..or squeezebox 3..Is it at all possible..using ipeng..to play the music i have on my iphone (all pcs off)

TIA

[amcluesent]

Nope

[kenwoodchef]

Thanks..lol..its what i needed to know,,is it possible if i dumped my music on NAS

[amcluesent]

Yes. So long as your music doesn't have Apple's DRM and that the NAS can run Squeezebox Sever. (Or you wait and buy the Squeezebox Touch and connect a standard USB disk to it).

[kenwoodchef]

Ahh..apples drm...sigh.

The touch..if i hooked it up to my hifi...and say used a usb drive..cud i control it from my iphone/ipeng?

Or ..as most of my music is on my itunes library ..is ther anthr device tht i can hook up to my hifi system and use my iphone to control it wirelessly

[coolio107]

Originally Posted by kenwoodchef

Ahh..apples drm...sigh.

The touch..if i hooked it up to my hifi...and say used a usb drive..cud i control it from my iphone/ipeng?

Yes. Unless, of course, it has DRM... Get rid of the DRM, it sucks anyway, although I admit that Apple additional charges are hefty. Do you have a lot of that old stuff?

Or ..as most of my music is on my itunes library ..is ther anthr device tht i can hook up to my hifi system and use my iphone to control it wirelessly

Airport Express?

[kenwoodchef]

Yes i do hold a lot of the old stuff

I am on a wireless network..just want to be able to play the stuff thats on my ipod etc ...without having the pc on and buy an expensive item such as the squeeze/controller

[coolio107]

Originally Posted by kenwoodchef

Yes i do hold a lot of the old stuff

I am on a wireless network..just want to be able to play the stuff thats on my ipod etc ...without having the pc on and buy an expensive item such as the squeeze/controller

Apple will not let you stream from the device. Probably has to do with the DRM :-(
The one way to do this to get a A2DP receiver and connect it to your iPod through Bluetooth. Not the best quality but at least some music.

[kenwoodchef]

Thanks for the suggestion..........................would a apple tv get round it?

[coolio107]

Originally Posted by kenwoodchef

Thanks for the suggestion..........................would a apple tv get round it?

Don't know. Probably.

[Slackadder]

Morning,

Not totally sure whether or not you can stream from the iPhone. The link below looks at the Chordette Gem (circa £399 IIRC) which works on Bluetooth and USB.

NEWS: Sumiko Announces Chordette GEM—Combo USB/Bluetooth DAC | AVguide

"Interestingly, the Chordette GEM can receive digital audio streams from Apple’s iPhone 3g and 3GS and the 2nd-generation iPod Touch—capabilities made possible by Apple’s recent release 3.0 software. The Sumiko release adds that, “even the earliest generations of the iPod Nano, Classic, and Touch can be used with the GEM simply by adding a Bluetooth adapter (available separately)."

Maybe this might be a solution rather than going down Squeeze route.

I hope this helps.

Anthony

[kenwoodchef]

Thanks I will look into it.

[coolio107]

OK, you can of course use A2DP over Bluetooth if you don't care too much about quality.

[kenwoodchef]

i do care about quality...but i guess it depends what u define as quality



the unit is jolly expensive..lol

[coolio107]

I didn't refer to that unit, don't know it and what it does.
But iPhone does support A2DP over Bluetooth (does iPod touch have Bluetooth at all, btw?).
The issue with A2DP is that it's codecs are actually not the best ones (at least the ones used most often) plus you convert from one lossy format to another one which isn't really the best idea.