In case anyone's interested, I've expanded some on the response that I gave Derek about doing whole-home audio with MPD+PulseAudio, in my online journal:
http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/chronicle/whole-home-pulseaudio.html This version includes a few details that I missed in the last e-mail (like what I needed to do in order to get it working on the plug-computers), and copious hyperlinks to explainations of what the various software-packages are and how to do some possibly-obscure things in Debian. Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> writes: > > Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> writes: > > Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@geekspace.com> writes: > > > > > > I've setup multicast RTP with latency-matching across all nodes > > > in the network; I have only one `channel' right now (in the radio-tuner > > > or input-switching sense, not in the `mono vs. stereo' sense), but it's > > > possible to define multiple channels/sources by giving them separate > > > multicast addresses, and then switch a given receiver to another channel > > > just by changing the multicast address on which that receiver listens. [...] > > Okay, I'll bite... > > > > Could you give more details on how you set this up? I'd not heard of > > MPD until this email, so I just looked it up. It certainly exists in > > Fedora 12 (my current desktop -- yeah, yeah, I know) and from my minimal > > reading it sounds pretty cool. > > > > What I'm more interested in learning about is how you set up MPD to > > perform your multiple room synchronization, what clients you use, and > > how/where you store your music and playlists on the network? -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/