eHome Digial Tools

I have been struggling with the best way to do whole house audio. I have not been using the Audio in eHome as I don't want to maintain a separate library to my itunes library.

Just made an incredible discovery today I thought I would share.

You may have heard of the Squeezebox. If not google it. Expensive hardware but the server is free. The slim client is also free and now my Chumby supports it too. I know, google that as well

Anyway, cut to the chase. The server can suck in mp3s and also supports direct linking into itunes. It also pulls the album art from the id3 tag.

On top of that it has a "Touch" skin which is meant for touchscreen displays, and is basically a web application.

So in eHome I created a new page and simply put a browser window on it pointing to the slimserver on my audio server.

Instantly I get a really nice and clean audio controller that will stream to multiple clients, displays what is playing on each with track info and album artwork.

Definitely worth a look.

Martin

And it works great from an iPhone as I just found out. Will post back if I hit any big issues.

I should also mention that the software is also now open source:

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

I have been struggling with the best way to do whole house audio. I have not been using the Audio in eHome as I don't want to maintain a separate library to my itunes library.

That is the whole point of turning on and off menus!!!! Make eHome your own!

Yep, I looked at it. Real cool! A little pricey but nice.

Right now it is costing me nothing as I am using the free server and the free client. Cannot beat free

I tried the 7.0 beta last night and had problems with the touch screen interface so went back to the slimserver 6 release. Just in case anyone else tries it.

I should have mentioned that the whole thing took just 30 minutes to get running. That is from download to eHome integration!

Just got to love eHome!

Martin