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ESound Client Implementation for MS Windows?

Posted by Cliff on from the multiple-inputs-one-output dept.

SplasPood asks: "I've been searching for the last couple years for a way to pipe the sound output from my windows laptop to my Linux mp3/sound box. Currently, I use esound to pipe the sound output from all my *nix boxen over the network to this mp3/sound box which is connected to my stereo. I'd love to be able to do the same for the windows laptop. I use the windows laptop to watch DVDs and movies, and it would be great if I could hear the sound via my stereo. Does anyone have any suggestions? And no, plugging the output of the windows box into the input on the sound card of the linux box is not an option."

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  1. Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    What have you tried already?
    I could post a list of links from google
    e.g. jesd but you've already tried that, right?

  2. Did you google? by GiMP · · Score: 3, Informative

    Checkout the Cygwin network audio project:
    http://www.sitecity.net/cygwin-audio/

    I cannot find any binaries, although.. the site reports of some software called "WinESD" which will setup a virtual audio-device that will output to ESD.

    It appears that there should be no problem compling esdplay nor the libraries under Cygwin.. I do not know if Cygwin can do artificial dsp support, if it can.. it wouldn't be too unlikely for the official esound tree to compile cleanly.

  3. i dont understand the problem... by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Informative

    if the mp3's are on your nix box
    you want them to play in windows
    why not use Apache and winamp

    works great for me

    here's my playlist generator (not 100% on the MIME type now I see it here but it works in Winamp 3 Beta)

    #!/usr/local/bin/rc
    # rc is the unix port of plan9's shell

    echo Content-Type: audio/m3u
    echo
    echo [playlist]
    find /home/media/mp3/* -regex '.*3$' | sed 's/\/home\/media\/mp3\///' | awk 'BEGIN{i=0} {i=i+1; printf "File%d=http://devil.lucid/mp3/%s\nTitle%d=%s\nLen gth%d=-1\n", i,gensub(" ", "%20", "g"), i, $0, i} END { printf "NumberOfEntries=%d\nVersion=2", i}'

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    There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
  4. Try Netcat by singelet · · Score: 2, Informative

    In our University we stream mp3's to each other using netcat. There is an implementation of it for windows which can be found at Pintday.org. Just set the computer connected to the stereo to listen on some port and then pipe the output of that to your favourite mp3 player. A command like : nc -l -p 5000 | mpg123 would make it listen on port 5000. Then on the windows box just set netcat up to stream the mp3 file to the listening box's port 5000. If some of this dosen't make sense drop me a message I will be happy to elaborate.

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