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Promotion Details. Napster is the legal music service that gives you on-demand access to over 1 million tracks to enjoy, discover and share music.
Simple, fast, and reliable, Rhapsody gives you unlimited access to the deepest catalog of legal online music in the world. Tens of thousands of stations available. Requirements to work with DSM No installation required. Item Attributes provided by seller. Item viewed times. Payment is expected within 24 hours of winning bid unless prior arrangements have been made and mutually agreed to.
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Click here to find out more. The Good Affordable; streams music, photos, and video; compatible with DRM WMA files downloaded from online music stores; compatible with Rhapsody subscription streaming music service; works with Windows Media Connect server; component-video output; optical and coaxial digital audio outputs.
Finicky wireless connectivity with non-D-Link routers; lacks front-panel display and controls; doesn't display album artwork; not compatible with files purchased from iTunes Music Store; not Mac compatible. It's one of the first digital media receivers capable of playing tracks purchased from online music stores, but the DSM's wireless performance left us wanting more.
Review summary Fresh off the heels of a major upgrade, D-Link's MediaLounge DSM is among the first digital media receivers capable of wirelessly streaming rights-managed DRM audio files, such as those purchased from the Musicmatch or Napster stores, from your PC to your home stereo. It even supports Rhapsody , a leading, on-demand streaming music service. Unfortunately, with at least one router, wireless networking issues periodically stopped this dream machine in its tracks.
Measuring 1. In contrast to digital media receivers that are styled more like computer gear, the DSM will easily blend into a home-theater rack. The device is entirely silver-gray except for a translucent, black plastic strip that spans the width of the front panel, covering a couple of blue status LEDs.
With the exception of a power button, the front panel is devoid of controls; you must operate the DSM with the remote a bummer if it gets lost. Because there's no front-panel text display, you'll have to switch on the TV to navigate the device--that's a downer if you just want to listen to music. Media server systems take digital audio files out of the noisy, distorting environment of your computer and stream them—as digital data—to the media player connected to your stereo.
Your stereo, unlike a computer, was designed to play music and does a much better job of it. The case for streaming digital video is not quite as good to my mind. The DSM, like other video-capable wireless media servers, nevertheless automatically plays them full-screen, with the result that all their shortcomings—pixelization, poor color, less than fluid motion—become very evident, especially on a big-screen TV.
That said, the high-end video playing capability—MPEG2 at 8 Mbps—means theoretically that you could back up your DVDs to a hard drive and then stream them to the MediaLounge for playing. How well do they measure up? No question, wireless media players make a ton of sense. More on this in a moment.
Besides its convenient, stackable form factor, the MediaLounge player has a couple of other hardware features that set it apart. It even comes with an S-video cable. The advanced audio and video connections, which improve picture and sound quality when used to connect a cable or satellite set-top box or CD or DVD player to a TV or receiver, may be overkill for most uses to which a Wi-Fi media player will be put. On the other hand, this one can supposedly stream MPEG2 video. Putting the MediaLounge to work Installation was fairly straightforward.
It lets you add folders from your hard drives to be shared with the MediaLounge player. You can also use it to update or refresh the media list as you add new files to the shared folders, and even set up a schedule to automatically refresh. Hardware set up was also simple. The device worked first time on my wireless network, which is controlled by a NetGear The infrared remote control is fairly well designed with reasonably large buttons—within obvious limitations.
I found the four-way direction buttons a little over sensitive—I kept scrolling past the menu item I wanted—but this just required a little practice and a lighter touch. Unh oh!
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