DIY Wireless Music Player

Filed in archive Technology on February 19, 2006

Tinkerer Nathan True shows how to build your own Wireless Music Player. This truly is for hardcore programmers only with lots of time on their hands.

True writes:

It's a problem many of us are familiar with. We have an extensive music library on our computers and iPods/portable music players, and we would like to listen to it at home, but our computers are too far from the stereo, or the rest of the family wants to listen to music while you go out with your iPod. Or perhaps you'd like to listen to Shoutcast radio stations on your stereo at home (something portable music players are at the moment largely incapable of).

These are all very sensible reasons for wanting a networked music player. Now many companies have products for sale that fill this need, but this page is not about buying things. This page is about Hacking a do-it-yourself wireless networked music player for less than half the cost of a retail model, and with (potentially) more features.