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HomePod Brings Music from iTunes to the Living Room

Posted by pudge on from the join-us-now-and-share-the-music-you'll-be-freeeee dept.

sammy.lost-angel.com writes "News.com has a story about HomePod, a device by Gloolabs that streams music wirelessly from your Mac to your living room. It's based on a Java application. The device is not very pretty, but it is priced right at $199." Not for nothing, but you can buy a used clamshell iBook for just a little bit more, and use that (along with something like iCommune, or just loading the MP3s to your library ia file sharing) ... but these guys are right, this market is going to take off, sooner or later.

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  1. not pretty? by zogger · · Score: 4, Insightful

    --was just looking at the picture of the device, not sure why it's called "not pretty". It seems more or less like any other modern device, it's not kludgy looking or anything.

    1. Re:not pretty? by transient · · Score: 4, Insightful
      ... not sure why it's called "not pretty". It seems more or less like any other modern device ...

      Let's not forget the context of the discussion. Apple's industrial design is hardly "like any other modern device". Personally, I think that thing looks like an alarm clock.

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  2. iJust Use My iPod by tbmaddux · · Score: 4, Insightful
    ... and connect a stereo miniplug-to-RCA adapter from it to the analog ins on my receiver.

    It gets better, we have some old multimedia Altec-Lansing "gaming" speakers (the ACS-56 ones I think) that I was going to ditch when I sold the machine they were originally connected to. With my wife's iPod, they gave us a fairly good stereo for a smaller room.

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  3. Re:SliMP3 - different feature set, same idea by orthogonal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For me, the big advantage of the SliMP3 is the ability to interact with the large vacuum fluorescent display via a remote control from anywhere in the room.

    But at $250, SLIMP3 sounds pretty expensive for (correct me if I'm wrong) an ethernet card and an MP3 decoder DAC chip. Plus it only plays MP3s -- I'd want to play my losslessly compressed CDs too.

    Or am I missing something?

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