My husband has been moving our music from CD to an external HD in the hopes that I can figure out how to connect it to our new Yamaha RX-V667. He's been using MediaMonkey to do the copying and if I move the HD from one computer to another the music is there and plays OK. Since this works, he believes that I can figure out how to connect it to the receiver because the receiver has a USB port in front. The user manual only mentions the port in relation to gaming. I don't want to 'just plug it in' for fear of blowing the HD or receive up
He has great faith in me since I'm the geek and I put our home theater together. I don't want to let him down, please help.
thanks,
Clare
Clare,
There are several ways to do this, most involving a media player or server. On the inexpensive end this would do quite well:
Western Digital WD TV Live Plus HD Media Player
A search on this forum, Amazon, or Google for "media players" will provide other options. The advantage of a media player, over just a direct connect using the USB, is the ability to browse your music collection on your TV with album art, by genre, album, artist--too cool!
There are some very high-end options like
Olive on the other end of the $$ spectrum.
The key is to find a player with adequate sound quality, easy to use/navigate software, and a reasonable cost for your purpose (casual listening, critical listening, background music, etc.).
Cheers,
XEagleDriver
