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Has anyone tried out sonos?



On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 04:04:47PM -0500, Doug wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had tried this system for streaming music
> through their house.  Looks like the idea is to drop a few hundred
> dollars per room you want music in for a sonos player, one such device
> connected to the internet, the rest chatting via wireless.  There are
> controllers for Android, iPhone, iPad that look neat (go into party
> mode, turn off tunes in kids room).
> 
> Alternatively, has anyone done a similar thing using all open source tools?

MPD plays music into a streaming server, can be controlled by a
great variety of clients. You need nothing more complex or
expensive than a plugserver to serve as any endpoint.

-dsr-


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