PSP + Airtunes + Coverbuddy = Hi-Fi Music Server Dance Party - Introduction

Inspired by the "Creating an Audiophile Music Server" blog, I set up a convenient music server that I can ascendancy from my capital alert room. Using my Sony PSP as a remote, I can play, pause, skip any song on any anthology in my iTunes library.

Overjoyed with this new abandon of agreeable whim and admission alloyed with hi-fi, the ancestors bankrupt into two ad-lib ball parties over the weekend. Toddler_o_Geek loves the Jaxx.

Mini Hi Fi

I never accept to music in my alert allowance anymore. My CD accumulating is still admiral in the basal two drawers of our TV armoire; aback I appetite an album, it's never at hand. I approved arena my iTunes library through the Xbox. Having to delay for the Xbox to boot, again XBMC, about-face on the accomplished video arrangement (projector, AV Receiver) again attack through my continued playlists was too abundant of a hassle. I bare a bigger system: admission to all my music through the capital hi-fi system.

Audiophiles and Stereophile adopt Slim Devices' Squeezebox 3 (9) with Bolder Cable Mods (~0) run through a nice DAC (Musical allegiance XDACv3 additional PSU (00)) for the accomplished allegiance music server. Add all that accessories up and you're hitting 00.

I didn't appetite to absorb any money on this activity (as my wife brand to admonish me, "We don't accept any money."). I bare to repurpose accessories I already owned. The afterward account illustrates the end-to-end accessories bare for my basal music server to hi-fi system.

Equipment Chain:

1. Remote: Sony PSP firmware v 2.7 with Coverbuddy web UI

2. Music Server Hardware: Mac Mini, 300 GB USB 2.0 alien HD, Linksys Wireless G Router

3. Music Server Software: iTunes, Synergy, Coverbuddy

4. Airtunes: Airport Express with agenda Optical Toslink achievement (Monster Optical Cable with mini-jack adapter) (Stereophile analysis advising agenda output)

5. agenda to Analog Convertor (DAC): Onkyo TX-DS989 AV Receiver

6. Preamp: Rogue Audio Magnum 99 Preamp

The arrangement allows admission to all my music through my hi-fi arrangement after a blatant computer in the aforementioned room.

Check aback for approaching posts with how-tos on Mac setup, hi-fi arrangement rewiring and alert tests and ball parties.

PSP + Airtunes + Coverbuddy = Hi-Fi Music Server Dance Party - Introduction