Easiest way to get music from my desktop drive to play through my home theater + tv

[malicious]

first time i've posted in HTPC...


My buddy gave me a pretty nice sony reciever when he upgraded to Mclintosh or whatever...

I'm thinking about buying a set of Klipsch floor standing speakers to go with it = RF-82 model

I've got about 100gb on an external drive that i use with my PC - Klipsch Ultra 5.1

I thought I saw a review a while back about a box that you could put an external drive in and it had an environment to play the music and movies etc... anybody know what I'm talking about?


thanks,

mal

 

[SJetski71]

If it's a box for both music and video's then you're probably talking about a digital media player/enclosure. Choose carefully because some of them do not work as advertised, while others are pure junk. There are quite a few jems though and you could research them here. If you're looking to spend as little as possible then the mediagate mg-35 is a well supported model that's usually "decent enough" to get the job done.

Personally i'd research them first to find the player that best supports the HT equipment you already own.