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--riney]]>Feb 17th 2006 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/Feb 17th 2006 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/You people are psycopathic.]]>Feb 17th 2006 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/Feb 17th 2006 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/Feb 17th 2006 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/
I've got five of thse WGT's, they're truly delightful units. You need a 3.3v serial port to flash them with new bios, I used the 3.3v serial coming off my Linksys WRT54GS, ironically. Many cell phone cables are just USB 3.3v serial widgets.

The big downside of the WGT is the USB2.0 port is entirely completely unpowered. So you need two massive wall warts, one for the WGT and one for the usb hub. Past that, USB audio works great. The other downside is that these things have crappy DMA, I can only sustain about 1.8MBps copying from my USB hard drive to the ethernet port. DMA like this is really inexcusably bad. Still, its enough for movies and music, just dont tax it.

You also need a way to control the music player. I'd suggest an ATI Remote Wonder. Its unncessarily huge and the directional pad is an extremely dumb 8 direction non-analog deal, but it works and its RF. I'm looking for better for cheap still. Getting it scripted sanely into software is still a massive hack job. Also, the Griffin PowerMate is a _delightful_ knob+button interface, truly wonderous.

For music playing, you can use a USB audio sound card. I've got a couple 8 channel output C-Media's. I'm looking for something USB based off of the Via Envy24 chipset series, but havent found aynthing. (MAudio uses this chipset for many of their cards). For playing, MPD is packaged for OpenWrt, but its pretty simplistic and has been waiting for a playlist rewrite for ages (and doesnt look like it'll be that good anywho).

Nice speakers. BoomTube rocks. Battery powered too!]]>Feb 17th 2006 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/Feb 17th 2006 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/
When did they start making Sony Fanboys?
Just joshin ya, no sweat mate. ;-]]]>Feb 17th 2006 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/
When did they start making Sony Fanboys?
Just joshin ya, no sweat mate. ;-]

P.s.: they really do go to 11.]]>Feb 17th 2006 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/Feb 17th 2006 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/Feb 17th 2006 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/Feb 17th 2006 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/i have that router and the usb port is powered, i havnt whipped out a meter to see how much, but it does power a flashdrive i use for ftp storage. otherwise, thanks for the other info.
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maybe you need to re-Finish Law School because there is no law against playing music on your own speakers]]>Feb 17th 2006 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/
http://www.netgear.com/products/details/MP101.php]]>Feb 17th 2006 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/Feb 27th 2006 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/17/build-your-own-wireless-music-player/http://www.robhardwick.co.uk]]>May 8th 2007 2:30PM