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<blockquote data-quote="Berns" data-source="post: 535829" data-attributes="member: 96677">Just to add to all this:My MP main client does do it all, including music, and of cource native DVD stored on a 1TB diskTo play music in the kitchen I went for a squeezebox boom (didn't want to buy a PC for the kitchen ...).When I want the music for the living to be different from the one in the kitchen I have 2 options:- ask squeezecenter (the server part of squeezeboxes) to stop synchronization between clients- not use squeezecenter on the MP PC, but use regular MP playbackActually, I only have one squeezebox (the boom in the kitchen). The other PC's are using softsqueeze (a software turning a PC into a squeezebox).On the MP PC in the living room, the softsqueeze is running &quot;headless&quot;, meaning: permanently on, without interface. To control it, I start IE7, in kiosk mode, linking to the management cosole of the squeezecenter (server part for all the squeezeboxes), so I can control all the squeezbox clients from my Living as well.So if you are keen on multiroom/multizone sound, and allready have a number of PC's in the house, just use squeezecenter and softsqueeze. Cost: € 0,- (This is how I sold the squeezebox for the kitchen in the first place, with a simulation on the PC)So if you are keen on multiroom/multizone Satellite distribution, and allready have a number of PC's in the house, and a Sat dish, and a sat PC receiver, use Mediaportal. Cost: € 0,-Hooray for MediaPortal!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Berns, post: 535829, member: 96677"] Just to add to all this: My MP main client does do it all, including music, and of cource native DVD stored on a 1TB disk To play music in the kitchen I went for a squeezebox boom (didn't want to buy a PC for the kitchen ...). When I want the music for the living to be different from the one in the kitchen I have 2 options: - ask squeezecenter (the server part of squeezeboxes) to stop synchronization between clients - not use squeezecenter on the MP PC, but use regular MP playback Actually, I only have one squeezebox (the boom in the kitchen). The other PC's are using softsqueeze (a software turning a PC into a squeezebox). On the MP PC in the living room, the softsqueeze is running "headless", meaning: permanently on, without interface. To control it, I start IE7, in kiosk mode, linking to the management cosole of the squeezecenter (server part for all the squeezeboxes), so I can control all the squeezbox clients from my Living as well. So if you are keen on multiroom/multizone sound, and allready have a number of PC's in the house, just use squeezecenter and softsqueeze. Cost: € 0,- (This is how I sold the squeezebox for the kitchen in the first place, with a simulation on the PC) So if you are keen on multiroom/multizone Satellite distribution, and allready have a number of PC's in the house, and a Sat dish, and a sat PC receiver, use Mediaportal. Cost: € 0,- Hooray for MediaPortal! [/QUOTE]

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