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Wireless music player that connects to a NAS
fletchem
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I am looking for a reasonably priced portable wireless music player that will access music stored on my NAS. Does anyone have any recommendations? Preferably, I am looking for an all-in-one (incl. speaker) that does not require a PC connection (apart from the initial set up maybe).
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You could set up a raspberry pi to access the NAS music, and connect (powered|) speakers to the headphone socket. Many guides how to do this. Cost < £40.
You would control via a mobile phone or tablet.
Philips streamuim range include audio and video network media streamers (DLNA clients, suitable for NAS).
The above model is a table-top music/photo receiver.
I still have a stack AV streamer, though that was scart/SD only but has a display to navigate menus without a TV for playing music.
I don't know if the online portal is still supported, if it is there are numerous music channels receivable, but it will always be able to stream content from the local network.
fm radio. you can even set up pi as an fm transmitter but this is more dubious legally.
It is a DAB /FM radio built in wifi, has a usb socket, Internet radio, plays music from my NAS....have never used the Last FM link though.
There are two ways of doing this. If you want to use the NAS as simple remote file storage your options are very limited other than a laptop or tablet. Several of the above suggestions assume that you are willing/able to set up your NAS as a UPnP/DLNA media server. In that case you have a wide choice of current devices at a range of prices.
My suggestion would be a suitable Internet radio like the Roberts mentioned above. This gives you a conventional portable DAB radio which will also play your remote files (by WiFi or LAN connection) and access Internet radio.
The new ones now also let you record to a USB drive or SD card, a pretty useful feature.