Hi,
Hope you guys can help - I need some help with some pretty basic questions regarding media streaming at home.
Had a search on the forums and couldn't find what I was after - hopefully I've not missed anything obvious!
I'm interested in storing my music collection on hard drive, so I can access it without having to trawl through all my cd's.
I've looked at the Phillips WACS700 system, and it looks ideal - but is at least £400, and I already have a Hifi that I'm happy with for everythign except MP3 playback.
I've also looked at media streamers, such as the Squeezebox and Evesham M Bridge - which look great. However I dont want to have my PC powered up all the time as its a bit noisy.
It occurred to me that I could copy all my music to a laptop, and connect the media streamer up to that using a wireless PCMCIA card.
My question is, what spec laptop would I need? I have an old IBM T20 laptop (P3 500mhz, 256mb) - would this be sufficient? If so, then its just a question of storage - which is easy to solve.
Is there another option that I can look into?
Any comments / help / links to idiots guides would be much appreciated.
TIA
Si
PS Hope this doesn't appear twice, tried posting it and got an error.....
Hope you guys can help - I need some help with some pretty basic questions regarding media streaming at home.
Had a search on the forums and couldn't find what I was after - hopefully I've not missed anything obvious!
I'm interested in storing my music collection on hard drive, so I can access it without having to trawl through all my cd's.
I've looked at the Phillips WACS700 system, and it looks ideal - but is at least £400, and I already have a Hifi that I'm happy with for everythign except MP3 playback.
I've also looked at media streamers, such as the Squeezebox and Evesham M Bridge - which look great. However I dont want to have my PC powered up all the time as its a bit noisy.
It occurred to me that I could copy all my music to a laptop, and connect the media streamer up to that using a wireless PCMCIA card.
My question is, what spec laptop would I need? I have an old IBM T20 laptop (P3 500mhz, 256mb) - would this be sufficient? If so, then its just a question of storage - which is easy to solve.
Is there another option that I can look into?
Any comments / help / links to idiots guides would be much appreciated.
TIA
Si
PS Hope this doesn't appear twice, tried posting it and got an error.....