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Philips WAC7500/05 Wireless Music Center 80GB

by Philips
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

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  • Philips all-in music centre with MP3/radio
  • create a wireless network throughout your home even without a PC
  • Play 5 song in 5 room - all at the same time
  • 80GB memory stores up to 15oo albums worth of music
  • View album art in full colour
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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 61.4 x 27.2 cm
  • Boxed-product Weight: 11 Kg
  • Item model number: WAC7500/05
  • ASIN: B001U3Y8KO
  • Date first available at Amazon.co.uk: 25 Feb 2009
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Creates a woreless network with Philips WAC7500/05 - Streamium Wireless Music Centre & Station The Philips Streamium Wireless Music System gives you the freedom to create a wireless network throughout your home even without a PC. All you need is a Wireless Music Centre. Add on up to 5 Wireless Music Stations and each member of your family can enjoy their own tunes, in their own rooms! The Wireless Music Centre stores your entire music collection in a single device and streams it – wirelessly – anywhere in your home. Plug and play up to 5 Wireless Music Stations, complete with high-quality integrated flat speakers to access up to 1500 tunes. Hear more, play more, enjoy more.

Whether your music collection is stored on the Wireless Music Centre or on your PC, with Streamium you can stream all your music and enjoy it in any—or every—room in your home. Whether it's one song to fill your entire house or a different track for each room, it's completely up to you. No wires, no cables, no hassles. Just pure music enjoyment, unbound and unlimited.

Free your music. Enjoy all your music in every room — wirelessly. Rip and store all your music on the sleek Philips Streamium Wireless Music System WAC7500’s 80 GB HDD and stream tunes to different rooms throughout your home (additional Philips Wireless Music Stations required). There’s also colourful Album Art and Internet Radio to enhance your enjoyment. 80Gb Internal Hard Disk The Philips Wireless Music System WAC7500 has a built-in 80 GB hard disk to store all your digital music files. It easily holds up to 1500 CDs. Ripping and storing is incredibly easy. Just insert a CD and sit back while the system does all the work. Meanwhile, the embedded Gracenote database will provide the names of the artist, album and track. You can also simply copy your MP3 and WMA tracks from your PC to your Wireless Music Centre.

Philips WAC7500/05 Wireless Music Center - Enjoy Music Wirelessly

You can add up to five separate stations of any Philip’s NP1100/05, WAS7500/05 and WAS6050/05 to a Wireless Music System being either WAC7500 or MCI500H/05, which can be placed anywhere in your house. From the main set you can stream your music wirelessly to these stations, which means your entire music library is available at the touch of a button to a maximum of six rooms in your house. Your musical options are virtually unlimited.

Big and clear menu icons ensure easy and intuitive control over your system. With the SuperScroll button, you can navigate quickly and easily through hundreds of songs. Meanwhile, the clear display can show album art in full colour. Managing your entire universe of music is a real breeze with Streamium.

Enjoy your music wirelessly with Philips WAC7500/05 Streamium Wireless Music Centre & Station
FEATURES

Multiple Users Access Technology My Room, My Music playback to all Stations

With My Room, My Music, your family members can enjoy the music they choose from the stored collections in any room equipped with a Wireless Music Station. Multiple User Access technology simultaneously streams music selected by the client Wireless Music Station form the Wireless Music Centre. One Wireless Music Centre can stream music to up to five Stations. That's six different music options for your whole family to enjoy in any room - simultaneously and instantly.

Philips WAC7500/05 Music Follows me Feature Music Follows Me Feature

The Music Follows Me feature allows you to take your favourite music from room to room in your house without having to restart navigation and playback of that particular track. At the touch of a button, your favourite song will follow you anywhere you go in your house.

Philips WAC7500/05 Music Broadcast feature enables you to listen the same music to all stations Music Broadcast: Listen to the same music on all stations

Be your own DJ at your house party and simultaneously broadcast your favourite dance music from the Wireless Music Centre to all Wireless Music Stations installed in various parts of your home. Great for parties!

Plug and Play Plug and Play

Plug and play directly your USB flash memory device and drag and drop music from your PC

Enjoy Internet radio on Philips WAC7500/05 Enjoy Internet radio

Easily access thousands of music channels and stations from the world through the Internet. Listen to the latest hits or tunes from your favourite genre. Indulge in music, news and entertainment galore from radio stations all around the world — all at your fingertips. For ease of use, you can even create a favourites list of Internet radio stations. Streamium brings you a whole universe of Internet radio and online music.

Philips MCi500H/05 Wireless Micro HiFi System gives you the option of wireless streaming from your PC Wireless Streaming from PC

Wireless streaming from PC via UPnP. Connect your Wireless Music System to any Universal Plug & Play-enabled device such as a PC to receive or transmit music.

Wireless streaming with Philips WAC7500/05 Streamium Wireless Music Centre Wireless streaming between Music Centre and Station(s)

With wireless streaming, you don't need to download and store large music files on our audio device. Instead, you can listen to favourite songs as they are continuously streamed to all the Music Stations – even all at the same time. Have your music follow you from room to room with Music Follows Me - no need to restart navigation and playback. Music Broadcast simultaneously broadcasts the music you want from the Centre to all Stations. And with My Room, My Music, any family member can enjoy selected music from the stored collection in any room that is equipped with a Wireless Music Centre or Station.

Philips WAC7500/05 Streamium Wireless Music Centre with full colour view feature View your favorite album art in full colour

Range line up and features

Philips WAC7500/05 Streamium Wireless Music Centre with full colour view feature

Product Description

  • Wireless streaming between Centre, Station(s) and PC
  • 80 GB hard disk to store and playback up to 1500 CDs
  • CD and USB Direct playback
  • Enjoy Internet radio
  • Easy navigation and control


Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Product IMHO... 14 Nov 2009
By R. Patel TOP 1000 REVIEWER
I purchased the WAC7500 (the 80GB center unit) and the WAS7500 (The station). First of all I did a bit of digging on the unit and checked on philips site for any information. First thing I did was install the latest firmware which is 1.30 and also install the latest Gracenote database etc.

Once thing I will mention is that the center unit automatically picked up the Firmware once I entered my router details and the installation seemed fine; I mean there was a point where it just sat there stating it was working and then the system rebooted. I then updated the gracenote DB on the center this seemed to be similar issue, the webpage said it was updating, but the main unit just sat there, only after awhile the system mentioned it was doing something, although it did not mention it was updating the gracenote db. It came back to the HD icon after completion.

So, far so good. The next step I restarted and the center and station would not connect or find each other. So, I checked Philips and it said to restore factory settings. Which I did, anyway after which point they found each other, but hold on..., the two units i.e. the center and station just sat there stating that center found and 1 station found. Anyway, I waited as it seemed to me that they were doing something. Also, in the documentation it mentioned that the center unit would stream the Firmware update and gracenote db to the station. Anyway, I left this running for 30min (yes, that is right a good 30 minutes). At this point the station restarted a few times and then it mentioned that the firmware is being upgraded, the station actually shows the percentage completion(which is good), the center unit didn't(well, not that I noticed it did)

After this point I set everything up, copied a few songs and tested it all out, this included the internet radio etc. It all worked as it should. Shutdown the whole lot and unplugged etc, left it idle for 2 hrs and put it all back on again, the 2 units found each other, connection to the internet all normal, only thing it doesn't keep is the time, but that is minor.

It all works as it should and the internet station access is very good, only had to put my details in once and it remembers everything. The wireless connection strength looks very good for both units and I don't notice any drop-outs etc.

Bottomline, it's a very good system. It looks wonderful and sleek, people mention what it is and are intrigued when I show it to them.

I do feel that maybe it could possibly a bit technical for older folks. But, in my view it was a straight forward set-up. During the station setup and firmware and gracenote DB installation it seemed to be doing things but very slowly, but it did work. Maybe, if people are impatient then a reboot could have possibly caused more problems. As with any firmware installation can cause the system to hang or not respond correctly.

Anyway, I'm happy and it does what I'm looking for and looks the business.

It does need time to get used to, but after that it does exactly what it's meant to. Ohh, also I can stream music from windows media player etc. So, thoroughly recommend it.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Don't touch with a barge pole! 6 Sep 2009
By A. Pitt
Amazon Verified Purchase
It was the thought of having wireless sound and the opportunity to copy my CD collection to a hard drive that drew me to this system. It's a nice looking piece of kit, however, that's where the positives end! Having followed the instructions to the letter, everything was working beautifully. I'd made contact with the additional station I'd purchased for the bedroom, the main unit was talking to my modem in the next room, I transferred the odd song from my pc in the same room, internet radio was working fine. I was very happy...for a short while! The following day, I switched the system on and - the main unit couldn't make contact with the station in the bedroom, the main unit wasn't talking to the modem in the next room and internet radio wasn't working fine! I switched off, waited, tried again, nothing, switched off, waited - contact made - for half an hour, then no contact, then contact, then nothing. This was the rigmarole for most of the evening and, considering I live in an apartment and the lounge and bedroom are literally next door to each other, my frustration around the unreliable wireless set up grew and grew. FOUR HOURS LATER, having gone back to the drawing board, reset everything back to factory settings, I gave up, packed the whole sorry lot back in their boxes and the following day they were en route back to Amazon.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars WAC 7000/7500 Streamium 13 Sep 2010
I have got to say first off when I first got this piece of kit I was over the moon for I was hunting
for something I could use to consolidate my vast collection of CD's, tapes and MP3's into a coherant
modern system, and I could at last retire my collection of seperates.

I bought the WAC 7000 base and 2 stations and after a day I had it all wirelessly networked into my victorian townhouse, not an easy task since some walls are 4 feet thick. After various positioning attempts, I had all 3 boxes configured and available in my home LAN setup.

Next, load the CD's. The problems began. Some older and even new CD's would not read on the base station, so I resorted to ripping to my PC, then wirelessly transfer to the base station. A slow and laborious task. Next, renaming the tracks that were not quite correct. I soon learned the easiest way was to do all this renaming was using a 3rd party piece of software as the supplied Music Centre Suite didnt actually make any changes to albums and tracks in the library. I eventually de-installed all the supplied Phillips software from my PC and now rely entirely on this 3rd party (freeware) software.

After months of loading music via my PC, cataloging, putting into genres, playlists etc, I had over 600 albums all neatly accessableon my WAC setup. The hi-fi was consigned to the attic. The system worked for about a month then mysteriously, the stations would fail to connect to the base station on a regular basis. I found I had to go through the network setup and Scan for Stations functions almost every time I turned any of the things on, which was not that often as I spend a lot of time away from home. I estimate the total usage of the system was around 50 - 60 hours. Eventually, only the base station itself would work OK so I resigned myself to using this and leaving the stations as they were. At over a hundred quid a pop, seemed a great shame and I felt a bit peeved.

The real problem came when I attempted to upgrade the Operating System. The WAC base station, after accepting and installing the new version of software wanted to reboot itself. It got hung, went into the restart loop and never exited this mode for 3 days. After a few calls to Phillips helpdesk, I was advised to return it to the service centre for checking. Result? the hard disk was corrupted and needed replacing and if I had no backup of the tracks, I would have to input everything again. Total cost : 75.00 postage and collection and 120.00 for a new hard drive. The base station was out of warranty (typical) and I felt really let down as I am a big fan of Phillips kit and was even more miffed as I had hardly used the thing. Right now, the refurbished WAC base station is boxed up at home as I have no time right now to go throught the whole loading process again. My Library Backup? I had the whole library backed up onto an HP laptop that died for no reason in March 2010 losing not just my library but 2 months work. It was in for repair when the WAC blew up as well. But thats another story and I am now a convinced Apple fan.

Editing WAC track names. Using the supplied remote is only to be recommended if you feel the need to feel humbled. Almost impossible to work out how to do it. HINT. use a 3rd party software suite catering for the WAC to rename and recategorise everything before transfer to the WAC. And backup!.

TOP HINT. Use the base station remote to enter your network LAN code when you first scan for and add stations. The station remotes are fiddly to use and the base station remote has an LED screen, useful for seeing what the full code is before sending to the station.

Good points. It has a few. The functions "Music Follows Me" and "Broadcast" are really brilliant. The sound quality is really there. It just looks brilliant. No problems with the USB input. UPnP (Universal plug n Play) function will play tracks held on any wireless device on your network.

Since my repaired Base station is still boxed up and the stations failed to connect anyhow, I use the radio function on each station. Problem here is getting each unit to remember the radio stations you have scanned for!.

Overall I give the concept 10/10 but only 5/10 for the Phillips WAC 7000/7500 setup.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Prodeuct
Once I got the hang of setting it up, I found the product is excellent, you can record your CD's onto a hard drive , build up a playlist or library & play your favourite CD's... Read more
Published 5 months ago by mah jongg student
1.0 out of 5 stars Philips Crap
Crap; never worked properly ever since it was new.No back up and not what you expect from a company like PHILIPS.
Don't just don't. Read more
Published 10 months ago by hoodshill
1.0 out of 5 stars Designed by muppets, built by monkeys!
I have re-evaluated my review of the Phillips Streamium WAC7500/05. My first review was a bit of a rant about receiving a virtually dead-on-arrival box, which appeared to power up... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2010 by Lol
2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as i had hoped - get a Squeezebox instead!
Replaced this after 2 months - thanks to Richersounds for being so receptive. Doesn't do what it says on the tin! Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2010 by P. Walden
3.0 out of 5 stars Streamium? - A stream needs a place to go!
I bought my Philips Streamium in November 2009. The device looks good and it sounds good and, with its hard-drive capacity, it seemed to be just what I wanted. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2010 by Dr. D. Mackerron
5.0 out of 5 stars Philips WAC7500
The product is very good an does everything specified.
Easy to set-up and connect to a wireless ADSL router. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 2010 by Mark Tunstall
5.0 out of 5 stars streamium
Brilliant cd player, 80g hard drive so I can record all of my cd's onto the machine.
Published on 12 Dec 2009 by JJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Great System
I bought the centre and station. Both were set up within minutes. Excellant sound quality and very easy to use. Highly recommend this system. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2009 by Skye
1.0 out of 5 stars Philips wireless music - not quite true
I purchased this system a few weeks ago and I am still having problems in getting it to work how it should. Read more
Published on 5 Oct 2009 by Mr M A Ford
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