I heard that it’s possible to stream music to the Wii via Winamp. After doing some research, I found out that you have to install Winamp, sign up for a Winamp Remote account, and then you basically just tell the Winamp Remote what folders to share on your PC. Then you point your Wii browser to www.orb.com/winamp and login, then voila, streaming media to your Wii. I tested it out, and it was actually pretty cool. Music streamed perfectly, and I was even able to stream video (divx movies, even the dvr-ms files that Windows Media Center records to). There were a couple of downfalls to the video which make it pretty much unwatchable though; the frame rate sucks, and you can’t full screen it, but nonetheless, kind of a cool feature. ANYWAYS, what I was really after was just streaming music to the Wii, so I found a nifty little app called Wiisic. It’s a Java app that you run on your PC, select the folder where your music is stored, and then it starts up a built in web server with a Flash site that you can hit from the Wii browser. I fired up the app, pointed my Wii browser to my PC and all my music loaded up . There aren’t a lot of options, but basically, you can browse all of the folders and choose a song, or you can just let it play random songs from the folder. It also supports album art.  Although I won’t use it too often, it’ll come in handy every now and then when I want to stream music to the main floor of the house where the Wii is located.

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