Media PC and control4?

[mirdle]

I found this response on another board as a solution to play lossless audio files:

"Simply use a PC as a "source" into a Control4 Multi room amp or speaker point. Ditch the Media Controller in favor of the cheaper Home Theater Controller, no need for an over priced 80 gig drive. Simply use a network mounted drive or NAS. Now use RUDIO or Netremote to control the PC for audio selection and playlist creation."

My question is, if I went this route would there be any way for audio selection via the control4 touch pads or control4 on-screen menus?

Thanks,

Mark.

[RyanE]

What is RUDIO?

Probably not. You might be able to make playlist selection work, but I'm not sure how you would go about doing that, other than custom buttons on the Navigator.

RyanE

[sda]

I have a similar question. But instead of using a "Media PC", I have a Windows Home Server set up as my music server. Currently the music goes through a Squeezebox over Ethernet to my audio system, but I'd like to ditch the Squeezebox and go directly from the server through the HC-300 so that I can control the music via Control4. Is this possible? What's missing from this scenario to make it work?

I know I'll need speaker points in the listening locations and those can be easily added. I have about 300GB of music so none of the controllers with storage can handle the music collection. And since I already have the server, storage on the controller seems redundant anyway.

Any ideas? Thanks!

[inELEC]

If I understand correctly, you are not looking for lossless playback, mp3 is fine, am I right?

If so, it's quite simple: you need to configure a network storage connection to your homeserver. Your dealer can help you do this (don't think Composer HE lets you do that).

Joachim

[sda]

I have both lossless and mp3 audio files. Does it make a difference that they're not all mp3?

[thecodeman]

Yes, Control4 only supports .MP3 files up to 320k at this time.