So I have all the electronics mentioned in the title, and I'm throwing a party soon, and being a nerd i wanted a cool technological way to have the music set up.
I originally planned on having the xbox hooked up to my older tv in the living room, streaming music from a playlist in iTunes from my mac which was sitting in my room away from guests. I got this to work, but I wanted to be able to edit the playlist in realtime, but the xbox would not reflect changes right away.
I also know about the use the laptop as a DJ with itunes DJ and have people 'vote' with the remote app for iPhones, but I dont want to have my laptop in the living room, where someone could spill on it, mess with it etc. At least with the 360 no one could really touch it cuz i would put away the controllers, and if worse comes to worse i only loose ~300 compared to ~1200.
I haven't tried anything with the wii.
constraints...
-I have no way to cleverly hook up speakers, therefore the device i use needs to be hooked up the speakers in the living room
-dont really want laptop in living room
-being able to have a full screen visualizer or something interesting would be cool
i should be able to edit playlists, add to them delete them, move around with relative ease using either iPhone remote, or using the VNC program from my iPhone to Mac.
Any cool suggestions for how to get something running?
I originally planned on having the xbox hooked up to my older tv in the living room, streaming music from a playlist in iTunes from my mac which was sitting in my room away from guests. I got this to work, but I wanted to be able to edit the playlist in realtime, but the xbox would not reflect changes right away.
I also know about the use the laptop as a DJ with itunes DJ and have people 'vote' with the remote app for iPhones, but I dont want to have my laptop in the living room, where someone could spill on it, mess with it etc. At least with the 360 no one could really touch it cuz i would put away the controllers, and if worse comes to worse i only loose ~300 compared to ~1200.
I haven't tried anything with the wii.
constraints...
-I have no way to cleverly hook up speakers, therefore the device i use needs to be hooked up the speakers in the living room
-dont really want laptop in living room
-being able to have a full screen visualizer or something interesting would be cool
i should be able to edit playlists, add to them delete them, move around with relative ease using either iPhone remote, or using the VNC program from my iPhone to Mac.
Any cool suggestions for how to get something running?