Routing Internet Radio to Home Sound Equipment

If it's line level output (it ought to be but check first) you just need some adapter cables with one kind of plug on one end and another on the other.

What sort of sound card do you have? It's worth getting a good one if you can hook up to a real hi-fi. I'm a fan of M-audio (my audiophile 2496 was a great buy) but there are several to choose from.

You're going to love the new sound.

Thanks, looks like this may even be available locally through Best Buy. One consideration I didn't mention--the a/v receiver is several rooms away. I may need to use 40-50 feet of wire in all. Will this still work? I happen to have enough usb "extension" cables left over from a video project that never really worked, but I'm concerned that usb may not go that distance. One alternative I was thinking of would be to attach some kind of wireless "broadcaster" at the computer and a wireless receiver at the a/v unit with rca cables coming out of it to plug into the a/v unit, if there is such a thing. Don't know what the sound quality would be like.

An AirPort Express station with AirTunes and iTunes on your PC will beam music to anywhere within your wireless network for not that much cash. Seeing as iTunes has internet radio built-in, it'll do it just fine.

That's what I'd do - seeing as internet radio isn't going to be of the finest quality anyway, I wouldn't bother investing in decent cables.

Getting the Linksys Music Bridge installed was indeed a challenge, no doubt about that, but I finally figured it out and it's working fine now. The first problem for me was that it comes pre-configured with a very high IP address which was beyond the range I had set up in my router. I finally noticed that, but even though it allows you to change the preconfigured address, my changes never seemed to "take." Even though it said it was now changed, I could only ping it on the one it came with, so it didn't ever really change. I was also not able to get it to work in DHCP mode, even though it's supposed to be able to. So I had to make changes at the router to accomodate that. The other probelm was that I could never get it to work with my security scheme (WPA-PSK), but when I switched to the simpler WEP option, I was able to get it to work. I think that problem was an incompatibility between my Netgear router and this Linksys device, and I don't which was at fault. The point is, I agree installation is a problematic, but the problems are not insurmountable and I'm very happy with the results. I don't really believe hard-wired would give better sound for this particular application. After all, the Internet itself is not hard-wired all the way and my favorite music station comes all the way from Holland. Also, having to pull cable through walls across several rooms and two floors is even more of a nightmare than this installation was. As far as the other wireless devices, the Linksys product has several advantages over all them, I think, including the Apple product. For one, it will stream anything, you don't have to worry about DRM or copy-protection like you do with many of them[/i].