How to stream music from XP to HT receiver?

[MattN03]

What are my options for streaming music wirelessly from my harddrive (XP Home OS) to a H/K AVR 635 receiver? Their within 20' of each other. Any suggestions?

[bobman1235]

Wirelessly, directly the receiver? FM modulation maybe. :)

Actually they make networked music hubs that hook into the reciever. Here's a page listing some - unfortunately it only lists the manufacturer websites, which you then have to search to find the actual item. Look to be around 200 bucks in most cases.

[MattN03]

Oops, well I guess I actually meant streaming to a wireless hub I can connect to the receiver ;)

[disneyjoe7]

I've used a Linksys wireless Home Media device which has Music and or Pictures from my XP home desktop computer. I can say it works fine happy with it.

[peteran]

You can also check out Philips Streamium line.

http://www.store.philips.com

[anonymouse]

My favorites are the Roku Soundbridge and a modded XBox.

[polkatese]

I use my XBOX 360 to stream audio from my main PC to HT, via XBOX 360 output. It works great, and SQ is very good.

[hoosier21]

http://www.slimdevices.com/

This thing is suppose to be the sh*t, I have no experience with it.

[phipiper10]

In getting a little further away from the original discussion some of the Onkyo receivers hook up to pc's via cat-5 cable. No wireless (interference issues) to deal with. Just a direct network connection to the receiver from your pc.

I've got... let's just I have many many gigs of music on a hardrive. The convenience is brilliant. Of course there are better ways to hear muic but again the convenience of having that much muic at the click of a button is cool.

[SKsolutions]

Gotta love that Limewire.

[heiney9]

Check out SqueezeBox II

http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_overview.html

H9

My brother has one and it works very very well. He uses an outboard DAC insteda of the one built in, but it works very well.

[andersonbc]

I have the AirTunes (http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/airtunes.html) and I love it. The downside is that you have to use iTunes (not a downside for me because I already use iTunes). You can also broadcast to multiple AirTunes if you like to fill the whole house with music. They run about $130.

PS. You don't need an Apple computer to use these. I'm using a Dell Laptop running iTunes (with the music shared off of another computer).