Streaming music and audiobooks from a NAS with an MP3 Player via WLAN

[Attreides]

I have a lot of digitally bought music and audiobooks. Recently I thought about buying an Ipod classic to throw everything on it, so that I have acess to my entire libary without having the loud PC running and getting on my nerves all the time. I know it's from apple, but in Germany it's the only player being bigger then 32 GB. But I need a new external harddisk too, to store various data on it, including my music collection. The best would be a NAS with a minimum of 2TB, the more the better (4-8 TB would be NICE).
So what about just accessing the music libary on the NAS via WLAN? Is there a non-Apple device that can do it? Maybe even internet (has to have flash then), to acess AbI, roccatune, imeem, last.fm and the rest of these wonderfull sites? Sending listened tracks to last.fm would be nice too^^

I know, this one is hard^^

[CrowdAds]

[gregzx]

You could not achieve 4TB capacity with a single drive. You woud need to run a NAS disk array. That would be pretty expensive... Are you sure you know what are you talking about?

[Attreides]

Yes, I saw a NAS with 4TB in a computer magazive recently, TerraStation sells 4 TB too:

http://www.buffalotech.com/products/...rastation-iii/

What I want to know is if there is a device that can stream from it, no matter the size of the NAS!

[gregzx]

Oh, so you are aware of the costs... Try looking into devices like the Archos 5 if you need media streming and internet browsing. I am not sure how does it work with last.fm scrobbling though...

cheers,

[Nicole]

You can probably scrobble if you go for a com[puter connected to DAS, but you'd have to play the tracks ON the media server and then transmit them over Wi-Fi... in this case, wireless speakers might be the best solution if it's only for listening in the home.

Alternately, I believe most of the media servers will stream over the internet; you could use DAS as well or built-in storage. Then, you could use an internet connected cell phone with an unlimited dataplan. I don't think that would work for scrobbling unless someone has written a scrobbler just for your device.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...treamserv.aspx

[Attreides]

I don't want to have acess to the music stored on the NAS everywhere, I only want to stream from it at home via WLAN, but without having to have a media server running all the time.

[gcogger]

I believe this may do what you want:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/sp.../4097&cl=gb,en