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To: Elroy who wrote (331)	6/21/2021 4:08:56 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 418

A NAS is certainly a good way to go if you have a lot of music, but it's generally overkill for most. Movies take up substantially more space, so a NAS makes the most sense if you want to have a large library of your own. A great app I've used to play video through an iPhone from my computer (or NAS) and to cast to TVs is Infuse. Plex is another possibility, it's a very robust solution available for many platforms and NAS devices, and it handles movies, music, on demand, and even live TV Don Green uses Plex and should be able to tell you all about it. If you ask him nicely he may even let you connect to his Plex server through Internet and show you what it can do. Unfortunately, I know very little about Sonos devices and have never used them.

To: Elroy who wrote (331)	6/30/2021 10:23:07 PM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 418

For anyone interested in the NAS topic in regard to streaming mp3 files from a hub (rather than an iPhone) to the home media, I've discovered a great app called iTunes Remote. You install it on a phone or tablet. It looks into and connects to your PC. It can then see your iTunes library and playlists, and play them. It seems to play them out the PCs default audio, which for me is PC speakers as I'm not yet fully set up. But if I can figure out how to stream from the iTunes folder on my wifi attached PC out to a Sonus or other home speaker, then I've got the NAS storage I was looking for without buying a hub or setting up a new system. iTunes Remote can access all the iTunes files on my PC, now I've just gotta figure out how to broadcast them where I want....