Wireless networked mp3 player
I think this is the box I've been waiting for to get my mp3s to my home stereo - though I'll have to make sure it can cope with AAC files.
I think this is the box I've been waiting for to get my mp3s to my home stereo - though I'll have to make sure it can cope with AAC files.
I have the previous (wired) version of that, and it is awesome. It doesn't play AAC files natively, but it is able to transcode on the fly from pretty much any format into mp3, including Apple Music Store purchases with the appropriate plugin. Since the server is open source (and written in perl, woohoo!), it's possible to poke around with the way it works if it's not exactly to your liking. I've currently got plans to add a module that lets my wife and I assign rankings to songs and have it make custom playlists depending on who's listening. Rockin'.
That is to say, the hardware doesn't natively support AAC (unless you want to write your own firmware for it), but the server software is able to convert AAC into mp3 on the fly, and stream _that_ to the hardware device. I haven't noticed much of a load on my server when it's transcoding, either.