Redirecting Audio from PC to PC? 76
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?"
Virtual sound card (Score:2, Interesting)
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...
Audio Streaming At Home (Score:2, Interesting)
For a while I used http://www.streamsicle.com/ [streamsicle.com]
whodunnit
You are using a 1U server as a desktop? (Score:2, Interesting)
jack audio connection kit (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 [jackosx.com] of JACK available for OS X and jack.udp [alphalink.com.au] readily compiles on OS X. I use Audio Hijack Pro [rogueamoeba.com] 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.
Too bad MPDv2 isn't out yet (Score:3, Interesting)
Anyway, a quick google came up with PlayerPal [playerpal.com], 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.