There's music in the air...

Dave has installed a New Toy, and it is now working. It connects up to the stereo, and also to our wireless network. It can then pick up Internet radio stations, and so for a day or so, it was playing Radio Galax to us. (Dave got addicted last time we were in the USA: Galax is a lovely little town full of really nice people.) Now he's worked out how to get it to play any music on the hard drive of the big PC upstairs. Since that's "his", it's mainly Civil War and country. So I thought we'd take a look at sharing what's on the hard drive of my laptop, since it's all on the same wireless network. So.... I am now listening to music on the laptop, while using said laptop, only instead of it coming from my laptop-standard speakers, it's on the speakers in the kitchen wall, since we wired them through from the lounge. Some people might suggest that this is technology overkill, but Dave enjoyed setting it up and I'm enjoying using it. He is now reorganising his hard disc so that the first 20 characters of each album title are enough to recognise it, since the display on the Gadget only shows that many without scrolling.