How do I listen to music on computer thru receiver

I believe by "SR" you mean surround sound receiver? In any case, how far is your computer located from where you will have your AV Receiver? If it is colocated with your other audio equipment, you can connect it in as simply as using a minijack to RCA adapter. As for an receiver choice, I'd recommend giving strong consideration to the new Yamaha RXV-665. It has some robust connectivity options, is clean sounding and has enough power to work well with your speakers. Just go to my website, beyondaudiojax dot com and link to products, Yamaha. I'm an authorized dealer so let me know what you think. Truthfully, if your computer is not colocated with your equipment, check out Sonos. You can use a Zone Player 90, Zone Bridge and Controller to make available everything on your computer, plus a whole lot more. Bear in mind that playing music directly off your computer using WM Player and any other wireless solution will probably frustrate you greatly. They are prone to dropouts and pops. Also, I found that the wireless connectivity options typically gave the music a "compressed sound." Not true with Sonos. The music sounds as good as if you were playing it direct. Send me an email, lets talk.

I think this might be what you're looking for:

http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_duet.html

OK, so you're going to need a Home Theater receiver, as it will be able to handle video switching and extracting and processing audio information from DVD's and Blu-Ray discs. In this case, the simplest solution is to hook a digital cable (either a single coax link with RCA connectors on each end) or a Toslink (optical) cable between the digital out on the sound card (most have both connectors) to a digitla input on the receiver (again, most have both types of connectors).

Then use iTunes or whatever software to "play" the music on the computer, which will be sent digitally to the receiver. You may notice better performance with lossless audio files (FLAC, WAV, Apple Lossless, etc) than with low-bitrate MP3's. You may also experience better performance with Vista or Mac OS rather than Windows XP. (Check the archives for this topic.)

Michael

Some clairification: All my CD's are coppied to my computer; I would like to use the SW on my computer to make play lists or do random plays and go through my new surround sound receiver. The other time I will use the receiver for HD TV viewing.
Thanks.

Gary

I'm also confused as to what you mean by "SR receiver". And when you mention "50% HD and 50% my music library", does that mean that 50% of your music is on a hard drive, and 50% is on physical media (such as CD's)?

Assuming you're trying to connect a computer sound card to a receiver, the easiest way is to get a receiver with digital input capabilities (any home theater receiver can do this), and connect the digital out (either Toslink or coax) from the sound card to the digital input on the receiver. Let the receiver do the D/A conversion.

Or, get a Squeezebox, then hook up a network cable (or use wireless) to the Squeezebox, and then either analog (L+R channel connnections) or digital (single coax or optical link) connections to the receiver. The advantage of this method is that it also works when you want the receiver in a different room than the computer.

Michael

I'm not sure what you mean by "SR".
The easiest way to connect your computer to a receiver is to go from headphone jack (from computer) into auxillary at the receiver. This is usually done with a 1/4 plug from computer, the plug splits to 2 RCAs which connect to the receiver.
Good luck.