Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in my office?

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart) and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the distant computer

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:50:27PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:17:44PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:54:06 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Be great to have some utimate setup (*sigh...*). You'll never have. At the moment you've setup something, just after bringing it home from the shop, it will be considered outdated, and there's already something new

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:01:42PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:54:06 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Be great to have some utimate setup (*sigh...*). You'll never have. At the moment you've setup something, just after bringing it home from the shop, it

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I thought you were kidding about the ogg123, but no! Is there a wav123, an au123, c? :_) wait, I just checked and there *is* a flac123. i'll be [bleeped]. :-) ANyway, re xmms2, it's

Re: networked audio

2009-03-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:41:40AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:36 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: I thought you were kidding about the ogg123, but no! Is there a wav123, an au123, c? :_) wait, I just checked and there *is* a flac123.

Re: networked audio

2009-03-22 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively] simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a remote computer (say, 25m apart)  and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on the

Re: networked audio

2009-03-22 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:31:00 +0200, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: The only suite I tried was NAS but that was years ago. I've found MuSe and NMM on both FreeBSD and Linux, but still need some clues. I use samba (a bit tricky but it can be done). Wanted to use NFS but unfortunatelly