On Mar 9, 4:55*pm, "DGDevin" wrote:
"Jeff Thies" *wrote in ...
* A quick Google search yields a morass. Any products or places to buy?

A friend of mine put a system from this company into his house and loves it.
He's a former hi-fi dealer so he's fairly picky, but he has no complaints
with this system at least for casual listening (the in-wall speakers aren't
up to the standards of his main audio rig). *He ripped all his CDs and other
sources in Apple Lossless format to a computer he uses as a music server.
The remote control is cool, it's like an iPod and he can dial up whatever
music he's in the mood for in whatever room he's in, at least until his wife
wants to hear something different.

http://www.sonos.com/

I never wanted music in more than two rooms, so I just ran really heavy
speaker wire (none of that name-brand audiophile nonsense) from the stereo
downstairs up to the bedroom. *The run wasn’t all that long and I wasn't
looking for high volume upstairs so that worked fine. *I had a little Sony
power amp that drove the upstairs speakers so I didn't even need to mess
with a switch, just power down the main amps and power up the amp for the
bedroom speakers and that was that.

My only suggestion would be to avoid apple's proprientary formats.
While a few other vendors are supporting them they are not supported
by everyone. If you stick to the non-proprientary formats you can
copy the music back to just about any device. If you ripped it form
cds it will not have any licensing content. Ipods and Itunes are both
capable of using the non-apple formats as well. You just have to
change the default.