[linux-audio-user] synhronized play of single audio on multiple media clients

[Joe Hartley]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:54:15 +0200
"Robert Rozman" <rozman at fri.uni-lj.si> wrote:
> I'm more or less linux sound newbie. I'm using few popular open source 
> projects (Misterhouse, Plutohome), that all implement some kind of multiple 
> audio clients using Xine, Alsaplayer, VLC and media is stored on server. Now 
> this scheme works quite good, the problem arises when one would like to play 
> single audio on multiple media clients in synhronized manner, so one would 
> not hear any differences between separate clients.

I've got a friend who has been trying to do this for years, though mostly
in the Windoze world without the level of success he's hoped for.

I have been able to accomplish this, though, with some open source software
under Linux.  Last year I bought a SqueezeBox from the folks at 
http://slimdevices.com and it's a thing of wonder - I no longer need a 
laptop in my living room connected to my stereo to access my music server!

There's a slimserver component that runs on my server, and there is a
Java client that emulates a SqueezeBox at http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/

You can run all of this without actually having a SqueezeBox, and by
running Softsqueeze on different computers on your network, you can have
synchronized music throughout the house.

It's unrealistic to expect synchronization in the clients you list; it's
got to be built into the player, it really can't be bolted on.

Good luck!

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