Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

rebel · Apr 4, 2001, 10:43 AM

How can I broadcast MP3's from my Mac to my stereo?
Thanks for any help.

davidflas · Apr 4, 2001, 12:08 PM

What you need to do is quite simple. First buy a cable which has mini (headphone) jack on one end and a pair of male RCA plugs on the other. Plug the mini-jack end into the headphone jack of your mac and the RCA plugs into your stereo (right=red, left=white) Then use iTunes or whatever MP3 player you use to play the MP3s.

------------------
"It is better to have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy" Anon

PowerBookDude · Apr 4, 2001, 01:30 PM

Is there a way to broadcast MP3s over the Interent? But password protect in order to listen to them?

PBDude

rebel · Apr 4, 2001, 01:44 PM

actually what I was looking for was a way that I could actually broadcast in a FM signal to my stereo from my ibook. I hate having to unplug my Dreamcast and plug in my ibook with the RCA cords and would like to keep my iBook on the other side of the room and simply hit play on itunes and send a radio signal to my receiver. I'm not sure if it's possible but I swear I saw some piece of hardware that does it for the PC.

iPond317 · Apr 4, 2001, 02:10 PM

Originally posted by PowerBookDude:
Is there a way to broadcast MP3s over the Interent? But password protect in order to listen to them?

PBDude

There is a way to broadcast MP3s from you computer using a program called MP3 Streamer. It is version 1.1 I believe and it is available in a Carbon and PPC version. It works very well and streaming quality is very high if you have a broadband connection. I wouldn't recommend broadcasting if you have a dial-up connection. The only thing that I have been unable to figure out about it is how to get the buffer size the right size for users of 56K to be able to listen to my station without dropouts every 2-3 seconds. It works great for me, just paste your station's address in your favorite MP3 app and listen away! BTW, it works great with iTunes. The address is your IP followed by the port, which is defaulted to 8010; 65.9.10.56:8010. Have fun!

------------------
Think different.
--------------------
"I'm so afraid, the way I feel. Days when the rain and the sun are gone. Black as night. Agony's torn at my heart too long. So afraid, slip and I fall and I die..." - Lindsey Buckingham

kungfugrip · Apr 4, 2001, 02:12 PM

I don't know of any internal solution to broadcasting FM to your home stereo. However, you could pick up an portable FM Modulator, available at most electronics stores. They're designed to get a signal from your portable CD player to your car stereo via FM. Radio Shack has a nice one that runs pretty long off a 9V battery. Just plug it into your computer, tune your stereo to it and you're good to go.

PowerBookDude · Apr 4, 2001, 02:20 PM

Thanks iPond!

PBDude

Apr 4, 2001, 02:31 PM

US Robotics just came out with such a product:
http://www.usr.com/products/device/p...sp?sku=USR6003

Kasanoba · Apr 4, 2001, 03:08 PM

There's also a similar product from www.akoo.com called KIMA (KS-110 Wireless Audio System). The source could be as far as 1,000 feet away from your Stereo System.

rebel · Apr 4, 2001, 03:10 PM

is that USRobotics device cheaper or more expensive that the Radio shack solution?
looks like exactly what I need though.

kungfugrip · Apr 4, 2001, 04:12 PM

We're talking two different levels of broadcast here. The US Robotics model looks like you can be anywhere in your house (or your neighbor's) really. The smaller portable units need to be really close to the reciever (4-6 ft usually), but cost between $19.95 and $29.95.