Product Description

Finally, you can enjoy your digital music files and unlimited, worldwide Internet radio, together with your friends and family, in any room of your home. NETGEAR's Wireless Digital Music Player connects your existing home stereo to your home computer network so you can listen to your MP3 and Windows Media format digital music files ? with the great sound quality of your stereo speakers ? wherever you like to relax and entertain. You can also listen to thousands of streaming Internet radio stations for music, sports and news from around the world. The Wireless Digital Music Player is compatible with your 802.11b or 802.11g wireless network, and it's very simple to set up and use. Easy-to-install software automatically finds all your music files by title, artist, album, genre or play list on any networked PC. It then collects them into one complete database so you don't have to do the work. Sit back and put your feet up ? remote control and a crystal clear, four-line display let you select music without even getting out of your chair.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6868 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Netgear
• Model: MP101NA
• Dimensions: 1.37 pounds

Features

• Streams and plays MP3s and Windows Media format digital files from all of your networked PCs and Internet radio directly to your home stereo
• Compatible with your existing 802.11b or 802.11g wireless home network
• Remote control and vivid LCD interface for easy browsing of music collection
• Listen through your stereo, boom box, headphones, or powered speakers
• Compatible with Windows 98, 98SE, Me, 2000 or XP

From the Manufacturer
Liberate Your Digital Music and Listen Anywhere at Home
Finally, you can enjoy your digital music files together with your friends and family, in any room of your home. NETGEAR's Wireless Digital Music Player connects your existing home stereo to your home computer network so you can listen to your MP3 and Windows Media® format digital music files ­ with the great sound quality of your stereo speakers ­ wherever you like to relax and entertain. The Wireless Digital Music Player is compatible with your 802.11b or 802.11g wireless network, and it’s very simple to set up and use.

Customer Reviews

Great Purchase
I picked one of these up at a local computer store last week for $39.00 and love it. Took a little while to get onto my wireless network, but now streams music into my hifi system flawlessly, giving me essentially a 200GB MP3 player. User interface a bit primitive compared to latest colour screen portables, but it gets the job done and seems to have picked up the other playlists and favorite categories from my other media software. Output seems a little low compared to the line out on my portable, but that can easily be adjusted by volume. One of the big advantages is the ability to use higher bitrates for ripping music to maintain optimal quality. Not sure if they still make them but recommended if you can find one. Use the latest software which apparently fixed many earlier issues that put people off.

terrible product
Just a terribly designed product and it wastes your time,freezes up all the time, and you lose all your playlistS and songs and have to reload,their outsourced c/s dept is a joke and give out erroneous info,save your money and avoid this netgear product.

Falls short on many fronts
About the only thing this media player was good for was connecting to Internet radio. It failed at streaming more than one song in a row from my PC. It also doesn't have WPA security for the 802.11b so you're best to hard wire it.

Since I don't think you can buy it anymore, I'm not sure what good this review is, but if you're thinking of getting a used one from somebody, I'd recommend you steer clear of the MP101. There are other alternatives that I'm told work much better.

Oh yeah, I spent about 3 hours on the phone with Netgear tech support (sure sounded to me like everyone I spoke with was in India) and they were unable to solve the problem.