How to get sound from laptop to Home Cinema?

[kristianity77]

Am hoping some technically minded people can advise me on what I need to do here (if at all!)

Basically I have a laptop which is ageing a bit so doesnt have bluetooth installed.

I have a home cinema system which can however receive sound through bluetooth as on my Galaxy Note 2 i can pair it up with the sound system to get sound from apps such as TuneIn etc.

My question is, on my laptop, I have probably 30 gbs worth of music collected over the years and Id love to be able to play music from my laptop to this sound system in a similar way.

What do i need to buy to do this, or is it going to be more difficult than its worth?

 

[marcus134]

DLNA

or

3.5 mm to rca audio cable
http://www.amazon.com/Dynex-Mini-St...1385613148&sr=8-2&keywords=rca+audio+to+3.5mm
http://www.amazon.com/C2G-Cables-40...1385613148&sr=8-3&keywords=rca+audio+to+3.5mm

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

...or you could buy a bluetooth adapter, and use that.

 

[Sicklyboy]

There's plenty of ways to do it, depending on how much money you want to spend and how simple/intricate you want it to be.

Simple and cheap is gonna be, like marcus134 said, a 3.5mm to RCA adapter. More complicated would be buying something like a Raspberry Pi or a ChromeCast and set those up as HTPCs connected to your home theater system.

I personally have a server computer in my room that hosts all multimedia that I want access to, with hidden network shares so I can stream to anywhere in the house, and with PlexMediaServer installed so I can stream to mobile devices and other computers should I need to.

...or you could buy a bluetooth adapter, and use that.

Or that, which would be the obvious solution that nobody else thought of for some reason.

http://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-USB...&qid=1385614744&sr=8-6&keywords=usb+bluetooth

Buy a few if you get those, because they can arrive DOA or burn out in a short period, or they can work just fine. Speaking from experience on those.

 

[p1ngpong]

What Tom said, you can get a USB bluetooth adapter for under £5 on ebay/amazon. It would be the easiest wireless solution for you by far.