[CUBE] Fill my house with good music...

[Chris Weiss]

atoa at krak.net wrote:

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>
> On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Chris Weiss wrote:
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>> Mark Plunkett wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry Guys I guess I just don't keep up with things. Thanks in 
>>> advance for the help.
>>>
>>>
>>> O.K. so I need Airport express...
>>>
>>> Plus and Airport Card for my cube.
>>>
>>> Plus an Airport card for my iBook 500G3
>>>
>>> Plus an airport card for my kids iMacDV 400G3 (runs OS9 though). How 
>>> do I max the RAM on this girl?
>>>
>>> Sounds Great. What model Airport Cards do I need?
>>>
>>> Should I call OWC?
>>>
>>> Mark
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>> Actually, all you really _need_ to listen to music anywhere is the 
>> wireless card in whatever machine you want to control iTunes with and 
>> the Airport Express near the stereo you want to pipe the music to.
>> That said, an iBook without wifi is rather like a Sundae without 
>> chocolate - you're missing the best part of a laptop!
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>
> You don't even need that. You do need _some_ wireless transmitter 
> connected to the computer that you are streaming from, but it doesn't 
> need to be internal. You'll get better throughput with a third-party 
> 11g unit,
> and probably better range, as well. And for less money, if you shop 
> wisely.
>
Two caveats there:
With the Cube, you're pretty much stuck. All of the 802.11g USB adapters 
I've seen require USB 2.0. The Cube only has USB 1.0. I have yet to see 
a Firewire<->802.11g adapter.
I'm pretty sure that the Airport Express plugin for iTunes only supports 
Apple's official 'Airport' solutions on the Mac. It _might_ work with a 
USB or PC-Card solution, but I wouldn't bet on it - shop for a liberal 
return policy as well as a good price :)

I am disappointed that the iTunes plugin _requires_ wireless access to 
send the music signal. If anyone knows of a workaround for this, I'd 
love to hear it.