Hey all I am in some dire need here!
Little background first: My parents are pretty old school they have a 500 disk CD changer with tons of CD's hooked up to their 13 year old home theater system in the living room. That CD player is probably 8 years old itself and the laser on it died. So my mother bright idea is to go out and buy a bose soundwave to replace it. It took my father about 7 years to learn how to actually use the CD player and HATES change (he almost killed me for changing his cable box to a DVR without asking and it took me a year to teach him how to use it). I could replace the CD changer but that is so old school and CD's get scratched dusty etc. I'd like a new option to get them for X-mas.
What I want to do is find a media player that has internal storage where I can place their music on it(I will manually rip their CD's to whatever format) and connect it to their A/V receiver so it will play through that. I'm looking for an option that it can be navigated from the couch with a remote preferably on the player itself. The simpler to use the better!
Now the options I have come up with so far:
Hook an ipod to the system: seems easy but they would have to get up from the couch and actually manually play around with the ipod to play songs they wanted or create playlists. Don't think this is going to go over well with my father. Also since the receiver is pretty old it has no ipod support or available dock to buy and therefore couldn't be navigated by using the receiver remote.
WD Live TV Hub: I checked this out and it seems pretty good. Has a TB of internal storage which should be more than enough. Looks simple enough to use and comes with Netflix which they don't have on the TV or current Blu-ray player. The downside is that it has to be controlled on-screen which could cause an issue since my father likes to watch his old 1950's Westerns on mute while listening to his music through the surround sound...sigh I know... another downside I heard about is that the filing system and indexing of music on this WD is pretty poor by modern standards and could make it difficult to navigate to find artists and particular songs. Lastly is that it doesn't have built in wifi which causes a problem because the router is in the bedroom and there is no way to run an ethernet cable to the living room. I can live with an on-screen navigation to play the music if it had a good indexing and filing capability to easily find songs and artists or make playlists.
and that is all I could come up with. I need help with some other options, anything you can think of. Other standalone media players that play music only or do video and audio. Netflix is a plus, wifi would be manditory if it had to connect to the internet. Internal storage is mandatory too or the ability to connect external storage device instead of internal works too. Nothing that requires a computer to have to be on to strema the music over that is too complicated for my parents to have to figure out. I need simple turn on navigate with a remote select the music and hit play. Any and all options you could come up with will help me a ton!!
Little background first: My parents are pretty old school they have a 500 disk CD changer with tons of CD's hooked up to their 13 year old home theater system in the living room. That CD player is probably 8 years old itself and the laser on it died. So my mother bright idea is to go out and buy a bose soundwave to replace it. It took my father about 7 years to learn how to actually use the CD player and HATES change (he almost killed me for changing his cable box to a DVR without asking and it took me a year to teach him how to use it). I could replace the CD changer but that is so old school and CD's get scratched dusty etc. I'd like a new option to get them for X-mas.
What I want to do is find a media player that has internal storage where I can place their music on it(I will manually rip their CD's to whatever format) and connect it to their A/V receiver so it will play through that. I'm looking for an option that it can be navigated from the couch with a remote preferably on the player itself. The simpler to use the better!
Now the options I have come up with so far:
Hook an ipod to the system: seems easy but they would have to get up from the couch and actually manually play around with the ipod to play songs they wanted or create playlists. Don't think this is going to go over well with my father. Also since the receiver is pretty old it has no ipod support or available dock to buy and therefore couldn't be navigated by using the receiver remote.
WD Live TV Hub: I checked this out and it seems pretty good. Has a TB of internal storage which should be more than enough. Looks simple enough to use and comes with Netflix which they don't have on the TV or current Blu-ray player. The downside is that it has to be controlled on-screen which could cause an issue since my father likes to watch his old 1950's Westerns on mute while listening to his music through the surround sound...sigh I know... another downside I heard about is that the filing system and indexing of music on this WD is pretty poor by modern standards and could make it difficult to navigate to find artists and particular songs. Lastly is that it doesn't have built in wifi which causes a problem because the router is in the bedroom and there is no way to run an ethernet cable to the living room. I can live with an on-screen navigation to play the music if it had a good indexing and filing capability to easily find songs and artists or make playlists.
and that is all I could come up with. I need help with some other options, anything you can think of. Other standalone media players that play music only or do video and audio. Netflix is a plus, wifi would be manditory if it had to connect to the internet. Internal storage is mandatory too or the ability to connect external storage device instead of internal works too. Nothing that requires a computer to have to be on to strema the music over that is too complicated for my parents to have to figure out. I need simple turn on navigate with a remote select the music and hit play. Any and all options you could come up with will help me a ton!!
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