Controlling my stereo with my Ipad

MortenG wrote:
I have just purchased an Ipad (16 GB, no 3G) and would like to use it to control the music at home. I have a NAS server to hold all my music, my photos etc. and an airport express (borrowed), but my laptop is rather old/slow, so would rather not go through that. So my questions are:

Can I use my Ipad as controller (know I can use it as a remote, but then I need to go through the laptop)?

What cable do I need to connect my old stereo to the airport express?

Any other good ideas on how to set this up? Bluetooth?

Help!!!

Airport express just streams music from iTunes to stereos. There are a couple of remote control programs available for the iPad that can control your Mac or Apple TV, but they are not even close to the usefulness of the iPhone App for remote control.

iTunes works pretty well with even older Macs.

As for controlling your stereo, I don't think your iPad can control it, unless you have brand new equipment, some of which are Bluetooth compliant.

There are about 50 iPad apps that have some remote control feature, you should look through them, but it's really clear that you're asking the iPad to do something it can't.

What we really need, or so I think, is two things. Firstly, versions of the iPod and Videos app that allow you to stream sound directly from your iPad or iPhone via Airport to your hifi (which in case of Videos should recon with a small delay). Secondly, a version of Remote for iPad, so that you may control the iTunes stream from a Mac to your hifi via Airport. Surprisingly, Apple is rather slow in developing the iPad verion of Remote.