WiFi music to my DAB radio via USB?

[Proto]

Got a decent Roberts DAB radio/iPod docking station for the kitchen. We often link up a laptop to it via an aux cable and play music off Spotify through it. We also play music off our iPod Nano through it too.

Is there any way I can get the laptop and radio to talk to each other via WiFi. The radio has a USB port, so I was hoping there might be a USB transmit/receive type thingee for sound. Possible?

Or, if I bought an iPod touch and put that in the dock, could I stream spotify through it and the DAB radio?

Help, out of my depth!

 

[MossCommuter]

The USB socket on these things (Roberts) is usually for software upgrades - you download the latest firmware to USB memory and then load it to the Radio.

Not sure the iPod touch is a goer either to be honest; I don't think the radio will simply play whatever the iPod is playing; I think the idea is the Radio accesses the music that's on the iPod. I don't think you'd be able to get the radio to control Spotify on the iPod; only access the music you've loaded to it. Not even the WiFi capable models of Roberts radios ("Internet Radios") are Spotify compatible (to the best of my knowledge).

 

[biggs682]

we brought a Pure Chronos dab radio/cd player afew years ago after getting fed of listening to a crackly wogan for our bedroom and then got another one for the kitchen best way to listen to radio

 

[Proto]

Hmmmmmm. Disappointing. thanks for the replies.

 

[goo_mason]

Trade it in for an Internet Radio - I bought one (Logik IR100 - I don't think they're sold any more )a couple of years ago when they were selling them on a special in PC World. Probably one of my best buys ever - every radio station that exists on the web across the world is at your fingertips, plus all of the BBC's Listen Again streams and podcasts. I can also add streams and podcast URLs to the Reciva website and they appear on my radio.

Not only that, but I can stream music wirelessly from my PC & laptop to it.

I spend most Sundays in the kitchen cooking, cleaning and washing as I go through my weekly BBC7 comedy faves on Listen Again.

 

[Proto]

Trade it in for an Internet Radio - I bought one (Logik IR100 - I don't think they're sold any more )a couple of years ago when they were selling them on a special in PC World.

Well, when going to John Lewis my intention was to buy an internet radio, but the couple they had in sounded very poor. Just not good enough. We looked at (and listened to) both the Revo Ikon and the Pure Avanti, both reviewed well, and we didn't think they were up to the job. Ended up with a Roberts Sound 53. The Vita R4 was good, but too expensive.

We get round the problem at the mo by parking a lap top next to the Roberts and plugging in an Aux cable, but I'd like to park it further away and do without the cable.

 

[Ben M]

To play music off a network wirelessly you need something like a squeezebox.

I've had experience of one (setting up one in my girlfriend's parents house) and think they're really good. It'd be exactly what you want.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

My mate uses the Apple Airport Express with his laptop to stream music to speakers in his kitchen. Works very well.