Streaming music from PC with a PS3

[magicshaunson]

Hello all,

Apologies if this has been covered before. Can someone tell me whether or not it's possible to stream music from a home PC on a wireless network with a PS3 -thereby outputting it to the Onkyo SR605?

Thanks in advance

 

[professorhat]

Yup, you just need to be running a bit of software that allows you to connect like TwonkyMedia.

 

[Anonymous]

Do you really need to run software to do it? I got it working on mine and I didn't have to install anything. I just had to enable some media sharing thing in WMP11 and that let me stream and copy music, video and photos to my PS3.

 

[magicshaunson]

Is there a 'gratis' version of this software? or an alternative?

 

[John Duncan]

TVersity is free and works under Windows.

 

[magicshaunson]

Has anyone made this work? How slick is it? Is it just like connecting an ippy pod to your hifi?

 

[PJPro]

If you are using windows, give WMP11 a try first. I had no problem streaming media from my PC to PS3 using WMP11. If you have problems (which I don't think you will) I may be able to help you out.
TVersity? I tried that. Absolutely hated it. I don't know why people rate it so much. Cos it's not M$?
Twonky? Why pay? Might be better with movies? I find that my PS3 is a bit stop/start with home movies. Don't know if it's WMP11 or the powerline network I'm using.
Incidently, I did have WMP11 and PS3 streaming over wireless with no problems (except the movie issue above).

 

[PJPro]

I have replaced my powerline network with a fully wired gigabit network.
The issues with streaming movies appear to have gone away.
For some reason I am unable to steam .wav files. I suspect this is actually an issue with WMP rather than the PS3.

To head off discussions over various merits of flac, wav, etc, I was trying to stream wav files to the PS3 as an experiment. I wanted to compare the relative quality of .wav to 320vbr MP3 using my wife's totally impartial and highly sensitive bat ears! That experiment is on hold for the moment.

 

[John Duncan]

[quote user="PJPro"]I don't know why people rate it so much. Cos it's not M$?[/quote]

No, only because it was free - I have no need for it personally. And without MS, there'd be fewer of us here talking to each other, frankly.

 

[PJPro]

[quote user="JohnDuncan"][snip] without MS, there'd be fewer of us here talking to each other, frankly.[/quote]
Agreed.