Windows-Linux Audio Link

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Bayo Lau

Hi,

This might be an interesting problem.

I have a nice Windows laptop, a P-166 Linux system, an a wireless router.

I would like to stream all my audio of my laptop (music, system sound,
etc.) to the Linux system, which has a decent sound card connected to
nice speakers.

The reason for doing so is that I can move from places to places in my
room with my laptop but can still listen to the music from the nice
speakers. Now, I know 2 ways of doing is to set up a MP3 stream server
on my laptop and "tune" my Linux box to listen to the server. However, I
feel that it is an overkill: I have to spend CPU time encoding/deconding
MP3 stream within a private 100Mbits network.

Does anyone know of a better way of doing this?

BL

PS I know I can buy a wireless audio server, but I'm not rich enough.
 
Bayo said:
Hi,

This might be an interesting problem.

I have a nice Windows laptop, a P-166 Linux system, an a wireless router.

I would like to stream all my audio of my laptop (music, system sound,
etc.) to the Linux system, which has a decent sound card connected to
nice speakers.

The reason for doing so is that I can move from places to places in my
room with my laptop but can still listen to the music from the nice
speakers. Now, I know 2 ways of doing is to set up a MP3 stream server
on my laptop and "tune" my Linux box to listen to the server. However, I
feel that it is an overkill: I have to spend CPU time encoding/deconding
MP3 stream within a private 100Mbits network.

Does anyone know of a better way of doing this?

BL

PS I know I can buy a wireless audio server, but I'm not rich enough.
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Why don't you put your music on the Linux box and just terminal in to
control whats playing? Do all the playback work on the Linux machine
instead. You could still even a stored the music on the lappie but run
it on the linux box. I'm guessing you've got Samba running to connect
the to yeah? If not, do that then set up as described. You're better to
avoid streaming if possible.

Just a thought.
 
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