Which Wireless Music Streamer?

[grantsteve]

I'm looking to get something for the old man for his birthday (its on Thursday BTW!) and am struggling to find something suitable. Had intially plumped for the Roku Soundbridge but then found out it doesn't support music purchased from iTunes store.

He has a lot of music purchased from the iTunes store and also streams a lot of stuff from Napster. He wants to be able to play it all downstairs from the PC upstairs. Is there anything out there that will do it for him?!

I know he could burn his purchased stuff onto CD and import it back in mp3, but this is a bit of a faff really. I'm unsure how the streamed stuff works from Napster.

He hasn't got a wireless network set up yet and so I'd need to get him a router too (recommendations please!) His only use for it would be to stream music - no need for a wireless BB connection.

Cheers guys and gyals

[andrew1810]

The only player that currently supports itunes purchased music is the Apple Airport Express unfortunately.

Andrew

[woof2]

Originally Posted by andrew1810

The only player that currently supports itunes purchased music is the Apple Airport Express unfortunately.

Andrew

I have just set up three airport express's with tivoli radios which have brought about somne quite good results. I now stream itunes to three seprate areas with no drop outs and quite a nice sound.

[jimbowley]

Originally Posted by andrew1810

The only player that currently supports itunes purchased music is the Apple Airport Express unfortunately.

From what I read the squeezebox plays the apple formats, eg aplle lossless. So is there a difference between apple format and bought from i-tunes?

[andrew1810]

The purchased music has DRM attached and until Apple license it, the only player able to play them is the Airport Express.

There were some tools available to remove the protection, but I don't think they work with the new version of itunes and any purchased music gets converted on upgrade. The only way around it is to burn them to CD and then rip them off it again.