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General discussion

office sound system running through computer

Dec 5, 2005 9:56AM PST

I have a 20 year old sound system in my dental office(6 in-the-ceiling speakers scattered throughout the office) that I would like to hook up to a computer and run XM radio through it. I currently get free XM radio through my AOL Broadband and would like to use that as my background music. Anyone have experience with this or can give any advice on whether this can work? Will I need to upgrade speakers system?

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Legal issues
Feb 14, 2008 3:46AM PST

I am not sure what they would be, but are there any legal issues with doing this?

I know the music industry seems to be picking on sharing and broadcast type issues and would hate to see some unhappy patient turn you in a year from now and you get nailed for some violation.

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Use an Amp.
Jun 9, 2008 12:55AM PDT

shouldn't be any legal issues, i hear XM at a lot of places i go.

With your current sound system do you have an Apm hooked up some place? i'm guessing you do, but if you don't get one and tie the speakers into it. from the amp you should have an input jack that you can run from your PC's headphone jack into the Amp.

the only down side is that all of the sound your PC makes, like getting a new email or jumping on YouTube during lunch to watch the Video that was just emailed will also run over the office system.

hope this helps.