[Scottish] Network sound systems

[simon yuill]

Have a look at Jack:

http://jackit.sourceforge.net/

have a look at the various applications using it, such as:

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~rd/sw/jack.html

best wishes,
Si





Kyle Gordon wrote:

> I'm asking you lot cos... well, google didn't turn up anything useful :-)
>
> Is anyone aware of a network audio system that is mostly seamless? I 
> could bring my laptop into the same room as my media box, and 
> artsd/esd/alsa/etc would automatically detect the presence of the 
> sound system hooked up to it, and offer me a chance to use it instead 
> of the onboard sound.
>
> Using upnp AV, rendezvous, bluetooth, anything? Maybe instead it could 
> have something in the system notification area that knows what sound 
> systems are on the same network, and offer the ability to pick 
> services? I know Apples Airtunes device does similar, but up until 
> recently it was Apple only. Jon Lech Johansen has cracked the Airtunes 
> key, but it's still a kludge to get audio over to it.
>
> Anyone got any ideas, suggestions, hints, etc?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kyle
>
>
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