scarletjim
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Can anyone recommend an app where I can store all my music on one device (ideally a tablet), leave it on 24hrs a day, and control it with other devices, including mainly my phone and my laptop? The tablet would then sit plugged into my amp in a cupboard, and say I wanted to play a particular album, I could make it do so easily from my phone or laptop, without needing to go over to the tablet.
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For anyone who wants a bit more detail... The house I bought 10 years ago has an old system called Living Control Music Box, one part of which (the bit that holds the CD collection) has now sadly died, and would be very expensive to repair. The system has 6 channels - 2 of them access the CD collection I've loaded on part of the Living Control system, 1 is radio, 1 is Sky, and 1 is to an old Airport Express that plays music from iTunes streamed from an old desktop. Most of that I rarely used / no longer need. The plan is to load most of my old CD collection, plus any MP3s, to one tablet, then have a single app that can choose songs, albums, playlists etc, and can be controlled from another device.
There will need to be 2 stages of development in the long-term:
1. At present, the Living Control box that directs music to different rooms still works, and the control panels on the walls still work, so I just need the app to select the right music on the tablet, have the tablet plugged into the LC box, and I can just select that single channel in whatever room I want it using the wall panel.
2. When that LC box dies, it will leave me with cables to 5 rooms all coming into my living room, so I'll presumably need to buy a new piece of hardware to manage that (to be honest there are only 3 rooms where we really need it). What is that hardware called? Amp? Receiver? It needs to take music from my tablet (single source) and send it to the right room. Is there a recommended app to manage that too? i.e. I'd need the app to not only choose the music, but then also choose the destination room, and tell the hardware to play the music in that room. Is it possible?
(N.B. My current LC set-up also enables 2+ different sources to play in different rooms at the same time, but i so rarely used it that it's not worth recreating, so I'll ignore that for now at least).
Thanks to anyone prepared to try to help, and apologies for my obvious lack of technical knowledge on such topics (please be patient!
).
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For anyone who wants a bit more detail... The house I bought 10 years ago has an old system called Living Control Music Box, one part of which (the bit that holds the CD collection) has now sadly died, and would be very expensive to repair. The system has 6 channels - 2 of them access the CD collection I've loaded on part of the Living Control system, 1 is radio, 1 is Sky, and 1 is to an old Airport Express that plays music from iTunes streamed from an old desktop. Most of that I rarely used / no longer need. The plan is to load most of my old CD collection, plus any MP3s, to one tablet, then have a single app that can choose songs, albums, playlists etc, and can be controlled from another device.
There will need to be 2 stages of development in the long-term:
1. At present, the Living Control box that directs music to different rooms still works, and the control panels on the walls still work, so I just need the app to select the right music on the tablet, have the tablet plugged into the LC box, and I can just select that single channel in whatever room I want it using the wall panel.
2. When that LC box dies, it will leave me with cables to 5 rooms all coming into my living room, so I'll presumably need to buy a new piece of hardware to manage that (to be honest there are only 3 rooms where we really need it). What is that hardware called? Amp? Receiver? It needs to take music from my tablet (single source) and send it to the right room. Is there a recommended app to manage that too? i.e. I'd need the app to not only choose the music, but then also choose the destination room, and tell the hardware to play the music in that room. Is it possible?
(N.B. My current LC set-up also enables 2+ different sources to play in different rooms at the same time, but i so rarely used it that it's not worth recreating, so I'll ignore that for now at least).
Thanks to anyone prepared to try to help, and apologies for my obvious lack of technical knowledge on such topics (please be patient!
).
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