I've used Winamp/shoutcast to stream CD's and FM radio stations to SB3.
Works pretty well. I have had problem leaving Shoutcast up all the
timememory leak maybecrashed my PC a few times.
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pm314
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Since a squeezebox can tune into a Shoutcast stream, you could always do
something like the following:
CD -- WinAmp -- Shoutcast Server -- Squeezebox
I've done something similar when I experimented with using amaroK to be
my interface for selecting music to play on the Squeezebox. The
I'm not trying to be flip, but why not just use a CD player when you
want to play a CD? Seems much easier, cheaper, less frustrating, etc.
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superbad
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superbad Wrote:
I'm not trying to be flip, but why not just use a CD player when you
want to play a CD? Seems much easier, cheaper, less frustrating, etc.
My guess is that there are 2 reasons:
1) CD-player not attached to the same system that is close to where the
friends congregate - but is
Media players don't really stream the PCM from the CD.
What they do is tell the CD Drive, Please Play, and adjust the sound
card's CD input for audio. (There is a little 3-pin wire that runs
from your CD drive directly to your sound card.)
The OS never actually sees that audio so has no way of
Actually, these days, most media players (on Windows anyway) do stream
the PCM - at least as an option. I know I don't have any of the CD
audio cables hooked up in my machine and it works just fine.
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