The Olive Symphony: The mega iPod for your stereo

another thought, maybe just maybe it will get Ipod kids back to thinking about home audio, and thats good for everybody!

wouldnt the new option of wireless be cool for folks who dont have a house wired for sound? Seems pretty cool to me but I doubt I will ever buy one.

I noticed they are touting their database software as being particularly good for classical music - with notes for conductor, composer, etc.

What alternative databases are good with classical?

I just read John Atkinson's write-up of this in the S'phile newsletter. We have three laptops and a wireless network in the house, but none of the computers is regularly located in the living room where the audio system is. Although I'd love to have a laptop by my listening spot and select songs from it, it's not a practical arrangement. Seems like the Olive might be a solution since it effectively moves the computer to the audio rack and let's me operate it by remote. But is the display large enough to read from across the room? Is it suitable for browsing my collection, as I would from a laptop? I donlt care about distributing music elsewhere in the house. Are there better solutions for my particular situation?

You might also look at the squeezebox 3 if you have a computer on all the time and a wireless network:

http://www.slimdevices.com/