playing audio over the network

nin_freak_ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 110

i know there's got to be some way to do this, but i've tried searching and couldn't figure anything out. what i'm trying to do is play music on my laptop, but have the sound come out on my desktop. i don't care if the output of my laptop's sound card is just transfered to the desktop, or if it's just the output of one music program such as xmms, as long as my music gets sent to the desktop. it wounld be preferable if it didn't use my laptop's sound card at all, since it's sound quality sucks. thanks for any help.

dev-urandom · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 260 Location: Huh?

Try nmm

Also, try streaming the source that you want to get played. A lot of good rtsp servers exist for linux.
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ticho · Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:10 am Post subject:

I found mpd with icecast to be a perfect solution for this. You'll need media-sound/mpd-svn ebuild though, as media-sound/mpd doesn't have this feature.[/url] There is quite a helpful bunch of people too, over at #mpd IRC channel on FreeNode, if you run into problem.
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