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>> why not just attach it to a radio directly > Because you lose control of what's being played, and there are probably not many "elevator music" radio station
by ibz 4y ago
>> why not just attach it to a radio directly
> Because you lose control of what's being played, and there are probably not many "elevator music" radio stations.
Radio is still by far the simplest and most fail-safe solution. But not playing an existing radio station. Rather buying a radio transmitter, like the ones used in churches - strong enough to emit FM throughout the hotel, and yet not requiring a radio license. Then the speakers would just be plain speakers with a FM receiver attached - no more wifi/wired infrastructure involved, routers, ability of the speakers to connect to the wifi, ...
- anyfoo 4y agoI think this might have been a popular solution once, but my guess is that it came with its own set of problems. Hotels often being pretty big (bigger than most churches, which also tend to be relatively open structures), usage of the license free bands from other devices, audible interference (which you don't care about in ham radio or portables as long as you can still understand what's being said, but for music in a hotel even low interference is bad as soon as it's audible)... though admittedly, I have no experience with radio transmitters for that particular use case.