NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music Player

Average customer rating: 3.0

Decent nont wireless though
Works perfectly with other server software
Very nice
Gret performance and value...
Does not work with Rhapsody or AOL Radio

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NETGEAR Wireless Digital Music Player

Manufacturer: Netgear
Product Group: CE
Binding: Electronics
ASIN: B00011Y1MQ
2004-01-01

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Product Description

Finally, you can enjoy your digital music files and unlimited, worldwide Internet radio, together with your friends and family, in any room of your home. NETGEAR's Wireless Digital Music Player connects your existing home stereo to your home computer network so you can listen to your MP3 and Windows Media format digital music files ? with the great sound quality of your stereo speakers ? wherever you like to relax and entertain. You can also listen to thousands of streaming Internet radio stations for music, sports and news from around the world. The Wireless Digital Music Player is compatible with your 802.11b or 802.11g wireless network, and it's very simple to set up and use. Easy-to-install software automatically finds all your music files by title, artist, album, genre or play list on any networked PC. It then collects them into one complete database so you don't have to do the work. Sit back and put your feet up ? remote control and a crystal clear, four-line display let you select music without even getting out of your chair.

Customer Reviews:

Decent nont wireless though.......2007-02-08

So I ordered this and surprisingly found this 250 dollar product for 30 dollars , i got standard shipping came in about 5 days, installed the cd to my desktop in my living room, which is where i have my roadrunner Cable modem, and my netgear Super g 108mbps wireless router, sothat all goes good, than i connect the player and i put the red and white audio cables in my reciever and i turn on the netgear, and it says found wireless network, it found it but when i tried to log on , nothing just this network not available, after finding it and putting the name of my network right there, so than i connect the short ole ethernet cable to the 2nd port on my router , and i connected the green audio cable that was going from my speakers to my computer , to the player. i turn it on, it says wired network found, bam it has my netowkrs name, and sure enough all the songs i uploaded onto the program they gave me, were there. i was so releived thihnking i had wasted 37 dollars. so i go online find the firmware 3.7 ithink and i do all taht jazz than when i turn it on it finds my laptop and all my music i have there. i was like whoa amazing, i forgot to include taht i had installed the program in my laptop as well. so i had songs there on my laptop, and my moms songs on the desktop. now i just need to buy a 50 foot ethernet cable to run along the wall to my receiver than i can put the player on top of my audio reciever and plug in the redwhite to redwhite and bam 5.1 surround. lcd screen is bright and easy to see, control is very handy, no buttons on player, so my suggestikon do not lose the remote.all in all worth 37 dollars.

Works perfectly with other server software.......2007-02-01

Many of the problems that are being mentioned have to do with the server that netgear provides with the package. Don't bother to use the CD. Don't even bother to download the new version from the netgear website because it has issues.

The MP101 is a client that supports the UPNP protocol for streaming music. You can use any other software that can be installed as a server as long as it supports the UPNP. Two good examples are TwonkyMedia and Windows Media Player 11.

Specifically, windows media player 11 (that comes with Vista) has a built-in UPNP server. So when you have both the MP101 and the Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 on, the WMP will recognize the client and start streaming music to it. Then you go to the MP101 and acccept the WMP11 as a server. The interface is much better that the default server that netgear provides, since you can instantly see now whatever you have imported in the WMP library, including the fact that you can browse the music directories directly!

Users with Windows XP can also download WMP11 to enjoy these features.

Given this setup, I connected the MP101 wired to my router and using WMP11 I never had any problems browsing and playing my music. It also worked perfectly with my Rhapsody account.

Very nice.......2007-01-21

Was very easy to set up. I am very happy with it, except for one thing. I have spent a lot of time making sure that all the folders from one artist are all in one folder. The Netgear software was able to seperate them. So now when I look up the by the artist there might be four diffrent folders with the same musician.

Gret performance and value..........2007-01-21

This product works exceptionally well wireless in the configuration that I have. I have two PCs connected to a linksys B/G telephone router and am operating the unit via wireless connection on another floor of my house using both PCs as media servers. I did immediately upgrade the firmware on the unit, and had to enable mixed B/G mode on the router to allow it to connect, but once I figured that out, the device works flawlessly and at a fraction of the price of other units on the market...a great value, after testing it out, I ordered a second one for my other stereo!

Does not work with Rhapsody or AOL Radio.......2006-09-04

If you look on the box it says that it works with AOL Radio and Rhapsody. I was using both, so I purchased it.
Since the time it was manufactured those players have changed versions and no longer work with the MP101.
You might be able to get Rhapsody to play a song or 2, but that is all I could get no matter what software or firmware I installed. AOL radio has a new version of DRM that does not work with the MP101 period.
Using the media server from Netgear that was made for the MP115 I was able to get internet streaming radio and mp3s to work perfect. Booting it up with the wireless is a little slow so I left it on most of the time.
After a while I gave up on it and ran a 50' extension cord under my house from my PC to my stereo instead.
In my old house I had a cheap gateway profile all-in-one PC that I used for my media. That worked much better and you can get one on ebay for under $100 sometimes.

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