Performance

Audio files looks impressive, 600 Mb for a CD.

To play them takes an hour.

600 Mb per hour is not a demanding task for a computer or a network.

 

Red book audio is playing 16 bit PCM audio at 44.1 kHz.

This is 705600 bit/s or 0.67 Mbit/s.

We have stereo so 1.34 Mbit/s.

 

A WiFi network (802.11 G) has a gross throughput of 53 Mbit/s (Network speed is expressed in bits per second, not bytes).

If we assume a overhead of 2 playing Redbook audio still fits in.

Even the highest resolution available, 24/192 kHz demanding 8.8 Mbit/s fits in.

Only if reception is poor or you neighbors are using the same channels, you might run into troubles (drop outs).

Wifi channels and their overlap, 1,6,11 is the non overlapping combination

 

In these cases a CAT5e cable is the answer. Wired requires less overhead and is faster (100/1000 Mbit/s).

Upgrading to 802.11 N might help too as it has a higher bandwidth.