Product DescriptionNETGEAR MP101 -- Put away the isolating earplugs. Now you can enjoy your digital music files together with friends and family, in any room of your home! The MP101 Wireless Digital Music Player connects your existing home stereo to your home computer network, so you can enjoy your MP3 and WMA ( Windows Media Audio ) format digital music files with the great projection capabilities of your home stereo. Perfect for entertaining, relaxing, and doing chores around the house! Easy-to-install software automatically finds all your music files by title, artist, album, genre or playlist on any networked PC It then collects them into one complete database, so you don't have to do the work If you like, you can expand your music collection to over 400,000 songs by subscribing to RHAPSODY Digital Music Service (free 30-day trial included)
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - 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, ... Read More
Rating: - 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.
Rating: - 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.
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Rating: - Decent nont wireless though
So I ordered this and surprisingly found this 250 dollar product for 30 dollars , i got standard shipping came in about 5 days, installed the cd to my desktop in my living room, which is where i have my roadrunner Cable modem, and my netgear Super g 108mbps wireless router, sothat all goes good, than i connect the player and i put the red and white audio cables in my reciever and i turn on the netgear, and it says found wireless network, it found it but when i tried to log on , nothing just this network ... Read More
Rating: - Works perfectly with other server software
Many of the problems that are being mentioned have to do with the server that netgear provides with the package. Don't bother to use the CD. Don't even bother to download the new version from the netgear website because it has issues.
The MP101 is a client that supports the UPNP protocol for streaming music. You can use any other software that can be installed as a server as long as it supports the UPNP. Two good examples are TwonkyMedia and Windows Media Player 11.
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- Great Purchase
- terrible product
- Falls short on many fronts