On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 00:23 -0500, Chris Metcalf wrote: > I got something similar working with NAS (Network Audio System - > http://radscan.com/nas.html ) and Gstreamer. > > It worked fairly well, but occasionally it would derail and consume > tremendous amounts of bandwidth for no particular reason. I never had > the time to figure out why it wasn't working properly. > Esd can also do this (seen in think-clients) if I didn't misunderstand you. > I'm not sure, however, if it would give you the ability to have multiple > systems streaming the audio at the same time. The client sends the audio > to the NAS server, which then outputs it to its speakers. I don't think > a client can connect to multiple servers. > > It sounds almost like you want some sort of multicast solution where > multiple "clients" wait for the master "server" to send them audio > (rather than the other way around). > You are right that I'll like to send a sample of sound over to multiple speakers simultaneously. Ronald. > Chris M. > > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 23:57 +0800, Ronald Ip wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 10:11 -0500, dsr tao merseine nu wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:09:45AM +0800, Ronald Ip wrote: > > > > I've dug through Google but don't seem to find the results that I'll > > > > like. > > > > > > > > What I envision is a layman's version of Apple's AirTunes. > > > > > > Have you considered IceCast? If so, what doesn't it provide that > > > you need? > > > > > > -dsr- > > > > Reason being that IceCast required "human-intervention" on the side that > > outputs music. I'll like something like esd which, can be run as a > > service and does not human-intervention for music to play through it. > > > > Think of it like a house-stereo where your other computers running esd > > are your satellite speakers. > > > > Any more software based ideas? > > > > > > Ronald -- Ronald Ip myself iphoting com gpg public key @ http://iphoting.iphoting.com/iphoting.asc Fingerprint: {6A7E AB1E A822 E621 4DEC 11C4 F355 0635 71D7 1151} ---------------------------------------------------------------- When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy
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