D-Link DSM-120 MediaLounge Wireless Music Player
By Alexander Grundner |
December 5th, 2005
Comments (9)
Network music players have evolved quite a bit in the last two years, and now D-Link wants to take them a step further with its DSM-120 MediaLounge Wireless Music Player. As you would expect the player connects to the home network (via Ethernet or 802.11b/g) to stream audio from your PC’s hard drive or tap into Internet radio, but what makes this offering unique is that D-Link has added both a USB and Mini USB port for accessing music from either a USB flash drive, USB hard drive, or really, any device/handheld that identifies itself as hard drive when connected via a USB cable. In addition, the player has a compartment for adding a 2.5-inch internal hard drive for a accessing stored tunes when the PC is turned off.
And if that weren’t cool enough, D-Link includes a PC utility to transfer music directly to the player’s optional hard drive and a “One Touch Copy” function that transfers music from a USB drive to the internal drive as well. The DSM-120 supports Windows Media Connect and Windows Media Digital Rights Management (WMDRM-10) that allows streaming copy-protected WMA-based music. Along with playing WMA, MP3, and WAV files stored on your computer.
The MSRP of the D-Link DSM-120 MediaLounge Wireless Music Player is $229, but you might want to check prices and availability here.
(Thanks for posting the tip in our forums, Montego!)
December 5th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
This thing is pretty sweet, and I’ve seen lots like it. My one problem with all these is that you can’t make a playlist on the fly… like having a button, “Add to playlist” and “See playlist” would be difficult? Instead, you have to pick premade playlists (who has time for that? also, choices change from week to week), a full album, or song-to-song. Am I missing something here? Why don’t these things incorporate that option? Even the orignial huge-ass Creative 6gb jukebox had that.
December 5th, 2005 at 12:55 pm
It does have front panel controls. I’m guessing you can create playlists on the fly — you’ll just have to scroll through and select the tracks you want to add.
December 5th, 2005 at 1:31 pm
The D-Link DSM-320 allows for creating playlists on the fly, although it’s not a lot of fun to do from the remote, so I’m assuming the 120 will also have the feature, This thing really has some cool features.
December 5th, 2005 at 2:07 pm
Hey Alexander Great Tip !!
I just found it for $172.00
http://www.costcentral.com/product-…Systems/Z00013/
December 6th, 2005 at 11:13 am
Just got this from DLink customer service.. too bad:
You will have to create a playlist first and from there it will pull and play the files, you will not be able to create a playlist on the fly. Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause.
Thank you for Your Time!
December 6th, 2005 at 11:19 am
Thanks for going to the trouble of finding out and letting us know
December 11th, 2005 at 1:36 pm
does anyone know how much the optional 2.5″ hard drive is? also when and where will it be available?
thanks
December 11th, 2005 at 3:59 pm
You can pop in any generic 2.5-inch hard drive. As for availability, keep shopping around — it looks like it’s available now.
February 10th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
I just received my dsm 120 yesterday, and things are about 90% there.
It does do Internet Radio well, at least live365. It logs in upon startup and has your preferences available.
Playing from the included server software is ok, though I will try with other servers soon.
Playing from the Hard Drive works, but the unit is not recognizing my hard drive when I have it partitioned to greater than 32G. I’ve tried it with various partition sizes, but it is not seeing the HD or audio files if the partition is greater than 32G. FAT32, Primary, Active. All set, but it is not see the drive.
Anyone see anything different?
Scot