Trey’s Blog|brain spillage!

I got my DMS1 yesterday and got it all hooked up to my stereo and home network via 802.11b. It works very well and I’m very pleased with the quality of the unit. It connects to your music through a Java-based program called SimpleCenter, which retreives and organizes your music for use on your DMS1. This program uses ID3 tags to organize music which is fine except that I’ve been really, really lazy about my ID3 tags and half of my collection is out of whack, so sorting by Genre is far beyond useful at this point. I’m going to spend the next couple of days or so cleaning up my tags and reloading into SimpleCenter.

Before my unit would work via Wifi, I had to connect to my network using Ethernet and using SimpleCenter, upgrade the device firmware. After the upgrage, the Wifi connected without a hitch. I had previously turned off WEP on my Access Point when I had some troubles, but I’ll try enabling WEP tonight and post anything interesting that happens.