I am not a big resolutioner, but when my twins got sick over winter break our family of five didn't really go anywhere for a week. Music is always a big thing in our house, but during that week in particular it saved us from boredom, excessive screen time and grouchiness. That's when we decided to get a system in place for 2013 to make music abundant and accessible at home. It's good for kids and grown-ups too, and some of these changes have the ancillary benefit of eliminating clutter.
Here is our plan:
• Take our existing collection completely digital. The CDs that we painstakingly packed up for our 2009 move remain semi-stored and difficult to access. We purchased a dedicated external hard drive and are chipping away at ripping the CD collection. The big news about Amazon Auto Rip is a tremendous boon on this front, and it was great to rediscover old purchases ready to go on my Amazon Cloud Player.
• Exploit streaming resources. Pandora and Spotify are excellent free resources that let our kids' musical taste guide us to new listening material. Use Spotify's "related artists" feature or create a channel on Pandora based on a beloved artist or song.
• Implement a wireless playback solution. Infinitely smaller and sleeker than any stereo system, set up something in the kids' rooms, common space and play areas. Mac devotees will warm up quickly to AirPlay (we went with this option). Other solutions include the Sonos wireless hifi system, or a bluetooth speaker like the Jawbone.
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If your kids love music, why not try some music classes? There's nothing like doing it yourself!
A great idea though I'm leary of relying on the cloud for long term storage, short term, yes, but a permanent backup, on HD's is better I think but personally, I find it preferable to play the actual CD/vinyl etc media, but that's just me.
However, I do rip stuff to MP3 (320Bps) and tagged and on a thumb drive for the car though so I don't have to juggle with CD's as much when driving.
That said, if you plan on streaming higher bit rates, the files can be large, and take a while to stream via wireless, if your DSL/cable is on the slow side, like mine as my wireless will only do 54bps or something like that throughput, a bit slower than a dedicated LAN cable I have currently.
I just found this out when I tried to transfer, wirelessly, a 48/16 resolution full WAV file from one computer to another and it'll take several minutes to transfer, and just a copying isn't reliable from one HD to another, but if I open the file directly in my audio program from the source computer, it's a reliable transfer, but again, takes a bit of time for the waveform to be generated.
What a delightful photo!
Yup- music fixes everything! No matter how grumpy my 5 year old gets, there's no way he can resist an impromptu dance party!
We have Apple TV and it works great. I use Rdio instead of Spotify or Pandora, and I can stream from my phone app to the TV.
We're going to buy ourselves something like this: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10597 and move our digital music and photo collections to it as well.
Call me old fashioned but sometimes there is nothing more beautiful than classical music on a old radio. i like the crackle.
We are big on music around these parts. When my son was an infant, I found the drone of the television just too much for my postpartum haze and a lullaby channel on Pandora proved just what we needed. He's now almost three years old and music is definitely our go to source of entertainment. Have a little dance party or have it on in the background while we color or do whatever.
My kids too love music and silly dancing!!!! We joined a Music Together class and they love it. But music should be in the house, in the car, and anywhere!! Don't leave it behind in the class! Yes, love your photo!!
Your plans sound great, but don't forget that you can make music yourself! So many of us sing to our children when they are tiny babies--it's almost impossible not to--but we seem to stop doing it when our kids are older. Whether you and your children howl along to folk songs in the car or you make up ridiculous tunes to get your little ones to brush their teeth, you can create music without plugging in a thing...
...but on the other hand, there's always room for techie interventions, too. Video games like Rock Band and Let's Dance can sneak music into your lives even during your kids' screen time!
Oh, and your kids have some terrific moves, from the looks of that picture!