On 27/03/12 19:03, Phil Thompson wrote:
so you have a single source of audio broadcasting to several amplifiers ? sort of audio-over-wifi
Yes.
or several wifi connected players running from one media source, each connected to a hifi ?
No. Although in a sense the solution to the first one is to do the second one, with some kind of sync.
http://danbeahm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/best-wifi-streaming-music-setup.html
This was useful, and I hate to say it but Apple Airport Express looks like the product I need. It's a question of supporting a suitable protocol capable of syncing at the remote end. In principle this is simple (sync clocks, and delay the stream by (say) a couple of seconds so that even though the data arrives as different boxes at different times, it leaves them as analogue signals to the amp as the same time).
It looks like the Airport Express protocol (RAOP) is what I need, or indeed its successor[1] which seems to support synchronisation of video as well.
If the Apple box is the best for the job (as long as it works on Linux [2]) then I'm OK with it but are there any similar boxes out there I should be aware of?
Of-course a lot of this is about fixing the inherent delays caused by streaming over IP. These issues don't exist when "streaming" over something like FM (max 10m low quality unless breaking the law), or possibly Bluetooth? Has anyone tried the bluetooth approach?
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