Stream audio locally

eje211 · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:07 am Post subject: Stream audio locally

There's something I want to do, it must be possible but I can't figure out where to find how to do it. The main idea is: I want to play audio on one computer and for that audio to play on my local network on another computer.

Machine 1 plays audio, preferably with Amarok which sends it to what it to what it thinks is an audio device.
Something transfers the sound to machine 2.
Machine 2 plays the sound from machine 1.

I want the FILE to be READ by an app on machine 1 but the sound to be played on machine 2. ALSA must be able to do that, but I have no idea of how to make it.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

massimo · Veteran Joined: 22 Jun 2003 Posts: 1226

Probably media-libs/nas can help you.
_________________
Hello 911? How are you?

shickapooka800 · Guru Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 304 Location: no

the enlightened sound daemon can do this. i believe it is called esound

can´t pulseaudio do this as well? I can only speak for esound, which works well (even playing video over ssh/X11 -- getting them to sync is the hard part).

eje211 · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

I'll look into these. Thanks.

szczerb · Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 8:24 pm Post subject:

How about with a windows client?

I have one windows computer at home (because my girlfriend "needs" the incredimail mail client.......). I have a server with MPD and use Ario as a client from the windows machine. I'd like to also redirect sound generated by the windows (bleh...) computer to my server (which is connected to a sweet hi-fi set). This must be easy to switch to and back from - NAS page says something about a an X server for windows on the client computer and that's not an option really...

Any ideas/articles/links/names/guides/howtos/etc? ;]