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Broadcasting audio over LAN with lowest possible latency

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DarkHelmet

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Well here's the situation.

We live with 3 students in 1 apartment. Everyone has a computer.
We have a spare PC, and the plan is to place it in the kitchen, and connect it to the stereo, that's collecting dust right now...

We have a switched 100Mb network, and we have the PC connected to it.

Now this is what it's all about:
we want to be able to hear whatever sound comes out of our soundcards (of course one of our PC's at a time🙂). So if i'm cooking, i want to be able to listen to the same music in the kitchen as on my room. And with lowest possible latency, so it's completely synchronized.
We control the PC in the kitchen with PCDuo. So how do we cast our soundcard output over the network to the kitchen PC?

I tried winamp with a sync plug-in, but that's rather complicated, since you need to make the exact same playlists on both broadcaster and kitchen PC. Another disadvantage of the Winamp system is that you only can listen to MP3's, not to the line-in (which I use very often).

I hope you guys/girls understand me, and that the explanaition was clear enough (english isn't my 1st language🙂)

Thank you very much in advance....
 
I'm not sure how you'd sync the line in part of it but for the Winamp synch plugin you mentioned couldn't you just have one playlist that is shared over the network neighborhood and both computers run it?

The only other solution I can think of is not to go with it over the network but get a wireless speaker system and put the speakers in your kitchen....
 
Yes that would be easy, wouldn't it.
But we don't want to spend any money on it.🙂
All we need (I hope) is there, except for a software solution....

And maybe we should setup a MP3 Server, but then we need to sync it with our own MP3 collections very often.
Or (pops up in my mind right now) we shouldn't use our own harddisks any more, but just the MP3 server.
But the big disadvantage is that all you can listen to is MP3. TV/Radio/CDplayer isn't an option any more with just WinAmp in use.
 
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