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Redirecting Audio from PC to PC?

Posted by Cliff on from the network-sound-for-windows dept.

Atlantis-Rising asks: "I have two PCs in my standard setup- one is a 1U server (Running windows XP), and the other is a Windows XP Media Center PC. When I purchased the server, I didn't think I'd need a soundcard, and so I made no provisions for this when I was planning my system, and so it has no audio. After buying the server, my main desktop died and I decided to use the server as my main desktop machine, and I'd really like audio. However, my Media Center PC is hooked up to a wonderful speaker set, one that I'd not like to duplicate. I therefore wonder if anyone on Slashdot knows of a way to play the audio from one PC on another? I know about buying a USB sound-card, and I'd rather not do that. I also know that I can use RDP to connect the media center PC to the server, but I'd rather not do that either, for graphical performance reasons. Are there any other solutions out there, Slashdot?"

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  1. Virtual sound card by GQuon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Relevant thread: Free workaround for listening to server audio from client

    Then there's the possibility of setting your server up as a SoutCast-like server.

    I've got no personal experience with it though...

    I would've bought a cheap sound card...

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    Irene KHAAAAAAN!
  2. Audio Streaming At Home by whodunnit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey there,

    For a while I used http://www.streamsicle.com/ ,it takes a bit to figgure out and get working properly, but after that it works great and sounds like what you need, as all you really seem to want is a way to remotely change songs.

    whodunnit

  3. You are using a 1U server as a desktop? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Isn't that just loud as hell? When I configure rackmounts in my office, I usually use earphones bacause they are so loud. Oh, and drowing out noise with more noise is not a good idea hearing-wise.

  4. jack audio connection kit by jasonwea · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Using JACK I regularly stream realtime audio (iTunes, QuickTime) from my PowerBook running OS X Tiger to my Debian Linux server where my speakers are attached with minimal latency.

    There's a good port of JACK available for OS X and jack.udp readily compiles on OS X. I use Audio Hijack Pro as my JACK source to grab audio from applications and send them to JACK which then uses jack.udp to send via the network.

    Of course if you're running Linux on your workstation, everything you need should be included in your distro's repositories already. I have no idea about Windows support.

  5. Too bad MPDv2 isn't out yet by neocephas · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I usually use MPD (Music Player Daemon) on my Linux and NetBSD boxes so I can play audio remotely (or locally too). MPDv2 is suppose to support Windows, but it isn't out yet. Another trick that I've used for Linux/BSD -> Windows is that I ran a esound server (esd -public -tcp -port 6666) on the Windows computer and used mplayer (mplayer -ao esd) to send the audio output to the remote windows computer. It's very fun to send Avril Lavigne songs to the university's clusters' computers to piss off your hard working friends :).

    Anyway, a quick google came up with PlayerPal, which runs on Windows and seems to be what you want. In fact, it seems to do a lot of things that MPD and its various clients do. Good luck.