I probably shouldn't have done it, but I bought a Linksys WMB54G music bridge.
The good:
For $80, the sound quality is very good, far better than those 2.4GHz RF senders
It doesn't know a whit about formats -- it just plays whatever the virtual sound card says to -- if your PC can play it, so can the WMB.
The bad:
Linksys always does something "good enough". It just never (at least when I get it), seems to be done.
The software is at best beta. As near as I can tell, it creates a virtual seound card C-Media Wi-Sonic Wireless Audio.
The "application" simply switches that card in and out and sends the "audio" over ethernet or WiFI to the IP address of the device.
The application only lets you seleect ONE AND ONLY ONE device. You can have five bridges in your home, but you can only listen to one unless you buy five PCs.
Given MC isn't as limited as the Linksys software, if I provided a WMB54G
- Given that the GPL code is available on the Linksys site, any chance of supporting this in MC as a zone?
- Can we then do what Linksys tried to do and create a virtual sound driver in MC that lets MC capture any sound output from anything else and send it to zones as input (use MC as a distribution engine).