Speakers That Play Music From Usb

1. Speakers That Play Music From Usb Drive

Jan 23, 2012  Make the most out of your computer's USB audio port. You can buy any USB Audio-compatible module, amplifier, speaker, headphone, or microphone (examples below), and simply plug it into your computer and you're pretty much good to go. It will be able to play music from any desktop or web app: MOG, Spotify, Rdio, Hype Machine Radio.

Music files have revolutionized the way people listen to and archive music. Soft players, or software designed to play music files, have made it easy and convenient to build ad-hoc playlists for any occasion or mood. Although programmable compact disk (CD) players allowed some flexibility to create playlists, the ease of clicking to add tunes to a software interface makes other forms of programming feel downright archaic and restrictive by comparison. It’s no wonder then that people want the option of using soft MP3 players to listen to music files through the main stereo system or entertainment center.

Speakers That Play Music From Usb Drive

Luckily, it’s an easy thing to do, and it can be done wired or wirelessly.The most common and least expensive way to route music from your computer to your stereo system is to run an RCA audio cable from the on the computer to the. All sound cards are made with at least one Line Out jack, used to power computer speakers. The jack is normally a 3.5mm mini phone plug. An inexpensive adapter that features a 3.5mm stereo jack at one end, and two female RCA at the other will work well here. This will connect to a standard RCA stereo cable.

The opposite end of the cable will plug into the stereo or receiver. Here you’ll need an available Audio Line In RCA port, which may be marked Aux for auxiliary. After the connection is made, set the volume down before powering up the receiver.

Change the receiver mode to auxiliary (rather than tuner, CD, TV, etc.), and slowly turn the volume up. You may need to boost the volume control of soft as well.Advanced sound cards might also have other Line Out options, such as Digital Out. The instructions are the same, substituting a digital cable for the RCA cable. The receiver will also need a Digital Audio-In port.Though wired methods are inexpensive, they have the disadvantage of requiring a physical cable to run from the computer to the stereo system. If the computer is a desktop located in a different room from the stereo or entertainment center, this can be impractical.

A laptop provides a good mobile medium for music libraries, as it can be set rather close to the stereo system to simplify things and keep wires out of walkways.When hard wiring your music connection isn’t practical, another method is to go wireless. In this case a small transmitter is connected to the Line Out port of the sound card, and a matching receiver is connected to the Audio Line In port of the receiver. Music from the computer is silently broadcast via radio waves from the transmitter to the receiver.

The receiver interprets the radio signals and translates them back into an audible signal to play through the speakers of the entertainment center.Wireless stereo transmitters vary in design and pricing and a few models are expressly designed for music. Others include ports to send not just audio, but video signals between the computer and entertainment center.

Cables might be included or sold separately. For more information check your local electronics stores or your favorite online retailers. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but your iPhone/iPod Touch has an audio out jack.

It's not the headphone jack at the top, but through the 30-pin connector at the bottom. Audio will be significantly quieter through the headphone jack because the signal it carries is designed just to power headphones. When you output the signal to a stereo it sounds weak. There are adapters that you can buy to go from the 30-pin connecter on the bottom to 2x RCA (red/white) that will plug into a stereo system and sound significantly better. The cables, even aftermarket, will run you between $30-40. Otherwise, you could stream wirelessly to the stereo through an Airport. I would like to listen to Pandora music through my stereo receiver/house speakers in a different room from my computer.

I have a unused telephone port and wire that is in the other room, near the stereo receiver. Can I use a jack to go from my computer sound card to the current telephone wall port then end up at my stereo receiver?The house is already hard wired for a telephone. Can I then purchase an adapter to go from the telephone jack/end in other room and connect to my stereo receiver? Make any sense? My solution is to get a cheap computer and set it up with my stereo equipment. A netbook would also work really well.

I run an old Toshiba laptop with wireless connection.I installed iTunes and then setup home sharing with all my computers in the house that have music. The computer is connected to stereo with mini-stereo jack for computer side and RCA for amp side. Works beautifully.I also use this for piping through internet radio and a great classical service called Naxos Web Radio.

All in all I barely use my CDs anymore, sad to say. My kids can't believe it!:-).

I have a USB stick attached to my router with only music files on it. Using a web browser on either my Mac or PC, I can see and play the files by going to ftp://192.168.1.1/USBDisk1/ The only way I can see them on any Sonos controller is to add '//192.168.1.1/share' to the music library. Under 'Folders' in the Music Library I can then see all the files but when I try to play any file I get the error message 'Unable to play name.mp3 the file //192.168.1.1/share/USBDisk1/name.mp3 cannot be found.' Also, I can only see the files under the 'Folders' option, if I select 'Albums', 'Artists', 'Genre' etc. I get a message saying 'No selections are available' I have tried rebooting everything but no success. What's going on? Hello Ian, It sounds like something is not working with the SMB server for router when Sonos is trying to access the share.

This could be due to a number of things. In order for Sonos to access the music files the NAS drive needs to support SMB CIFS sharing. Some routers share media through DLNA or UPNP servers, and not through SMB. To start what is the Make and Model of the router that you're using to start? Also use the attached link to run a diagnostic please.

Respond with the confirmation number for the diagnostic. Your PC is accessing the music using FTP from the USB ' ftp://192.168.1.1/USBDisk1/ '.

I have a similar issue. I don't really want to clog up a tablet (a Samsung Galaxy 2 7.0) with loads of (music) files so I have attached a USB stick to it. On the tablet I can see the folder (under 'my files') with the music but how do I get Sonos to see it?

When I go to settingsmanage music librarymusic library set up I am not able to find the USB. When I'm in the option of selecting a music source and choose 'this mobile device' (which I thought would be the obvious choice to take) it doesn't see my files either.Any thoughts on how to get this going? I have a similar issue.

I don't really want to clog up a tablet (a Samsung Galaxy 2 7.0) with loads of (music) files so I have attached a USB stick to it. On the tablet I can see the folder (under 'my files') with the music but how do I get Sonos to see it? When I go to settingsmanage music librarymusic library set up I am not able to find the USB. When I'm in the option of selecting a music source and choose 'this mobile device' (which I thought would be the obvious choice to take) it doesn't see my files either.Any thoughts on how to get this going?I have the same problem; hope someone from Sonos has an answer.