Radio Shack (and Mactown, too) sells a $20 or $30 item called iRock. You plug it into your iPod or computer's speaker jack, tune your amplifier to the appropriate channel (there are 4 to choose from) and tell iPod or iTunes to play. The sound comes out through your stereo. The only problem is proximity. The range is short. My computer is 12-15 ft from the stereo and there's a fair amount of static. The closer you get to the tuner the better the sound.
Intriguing idea. Harry on 12/30/02 2:55 PM, Bill Rising at brising at Louisville.edu wrote: > Hey y'all! > > Has anyone rigged up a unit which would broadcast the audio out from the > Mac to another location in a house, either > > 1. Using an fm transmitter which could then be picked up by a radio > (hooked to a good stereo), or > 2. Using some sort of wireless mp3 decoder which could grab the files > from the computer over a wireless network, or > 3. Some other method? > > I poked around on the web a little, and it seems that there are folks who > have done #1, there are folks trying to design #2, but I didn't see any > #3's (probably because of the search criteria). > > I'd really like to use a machine in the basement to run the stereo > upstairs. Heck, with a radio transmitter, I could put together a cron job > which started up the same song every morning for the clock radio, kinda > like Rob Schneider in All That Jazz, though I suppose I'd skip the speed. > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. Harry, Harry Jacobson-Beyer Surveyor of the Passing Scene! http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ What a strange, long, trip it is! remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how fast you go coming down! | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
