The Olive Symphony: The mega iPod for your stereo

A scroll display on the remote itself? That would probably sell me right there.

I just read John Atkinson's write-up of this in the S'phile newsletter. We have three laptops and a wireless network in the house, but none of the computers is regularly located in the living room where the audio system is. Although I'd love to have a laptop by my listening spot and select songs from it, it's not a practical arrangement. Seems like the Olive might be a solution since it effectively moves the computer to the audio rack and let's me operate it by remote. But is the display large enough to read from across the room? Is it suitable for browsing my collection, as I would from a laptop? I donlt care about distributing music elsewhere in the house. Are there better solutions for my particular situation?

That might work! They have a seminar on it at their headquarters near me tomorrow, so I'll go and check it out. Thanks.

So with the iMac or the Mac Mini, if you had it at your listening position, what't the overall architecture? Wireless from that device to an Airport Express at the audio equipment rack? Or to a Squeezebox? I get confused about how these various pieces fit together.

Thank you, very helpful.