I think I officially have one of the most convoluted streaming setups at my house :)

[aphex]

So in an effort to save money, I decided the best way to get my music library to play through my home stereo was through the following method...

Music Library on an external 250gb firewire drive connected to my mac mini upstairs, with the entire library loaded in iTunes which is shared on the network.

I then connect my tablet to the shared iTunes library, then connect via bluetooth through my Morotola Bluetooth Home Stereo Adapter (which I got clearanced out at Radioshack) connected into my home theater system (Athena Micra 6, Harmon Kardon reciever)

Anyone else with convoluted setups?

UPDATE: (a Diagram!)

External 250gb Drive (Music Library) --> Mac Mini --> (Wireless) --> Thinkpad X60 Tablet --> (Bluetooth) --> Motorola Bluetooth Stereo Adapter --> (RCA Cables) --> Harmon Kardon Receiver w/ Athena Micra 6

 

[FoBoT]

i put these round shiny things (cds they might be called, i forget) into my player

 

[elmro]

Why not just setup airtunes with an Airport Express?

KISS

 

[vi edit]

I turn my satellite receiver to channel 60XX where the XX represents the Sirius station that I want to listen to.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i put these round shiny things (cds they might be called, i forget) into my player

yeap. and if i wan tmore then an hour of play time i have a special CD player that gives me like 5 CD's worth of music!


though i do want a 250 cd player

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: elmro
Why not just setup airtunes with an Airport Express?

KISS

The bluetooth adapter was $25, airport express is $90+

 

[AmpedSilence]

thats not as bad as the network i had in my house a few years back. It was DSL->Router->secondary phoneline Router->computers. The only problem was that if you turned them on in the wrong order, then the phoneline router would not act as a switch but would assign its own ips and be on a different "network" then the laser printer and the network shared drive. The phoneline router had a termendous bandwidth of 10 mbps and cause static in our phone calls. That was bad, but it was the cheapest route at the time. I finally gave up in maintence pain that it was and ran wire through out the entire house, now its just a router with a 16-port switch, MUCH easier to maintain.

 

[ATLien247]

I just turn my stereo up loud enough so that it can be heard in every room of the house...

 

[apac]

Haha you could have just bought an apple airport. I think I've got you beat though...

My music is stored on my Ubuntu file server, which is all loaded into amaroK, an itunes-like client for linux. The server is running darkice, a program that captures all sound and encodes it into an mp3 buffer file - which is then hosted by an icecast2 streaming music server.

So to play music I VNC to the server and use the amaroK controls to play music, which is then encoded back into an mp3, which is then streamed to the xbox on the other end of my network, and finally is played to my receiver through XBMC .

It also turned out to be a pretty sweet internet radio for listening at work.

edit: lol it's funnier with a diagram
my computer -> (wireless) -> VNC server -> amaroK -> ALSA sound driver -> mp3 (lame encoder) -> icecast2 server -> (ethernet) -> XBMC -> optical cable -> receiver

 

[Savarak]

Originally posted by: apac
Haha you could have just bought an apple airport. I think I've got you beat though...

My music is stored on my Ubuntu file server, which is all loaded into amaroK, an itunes-like client for linux. The server is running darkice, a program that captures all sound and encodes it into an mp3 buffer file - which is then hosted by an icecast2 streaming music server.

So to play music I VNC to the server and use the amaroK controls to play music, which is then encoded back into an mp3, which is then streamed to the xbox on the other end of my network, and finally is played to my receiver through XBMC .

It also turned out to be a pretty sweet internet radio for listening at work.

edit: lol it's funnier with a diagram
my computer -> (wireless) -> VNC server -> amaroK -> ALSA sound driver -> mp3 (lame encoder) -> icecast2 server -> (ethernet) -> XBMC -> optical cable -> receiver

xbmc can read mp3s directly, if its on the same network you won't need to icecast it... even if its not the same network you can still connect to the shared folders, if shared

 

[apac]

Originally posted by: Savarak

Originally posted by: apac
Haha you could have just bought an apple airport. I think I've got you beat though...

My music is stored on my Ubuntu file server, which is all loaded into amaroK, an itunes-like client for linux. The server is running darkice, a program that captures all sound and encodes it into an mp3 buffer file - which is then hosted by an icecast2 streaming music server.

So to play music I VNC to the server and use the amaroK controls to play music, which is then encoded back into an mp3, which is then streamed to the xbox on the other end of my network, and finally is played to my receiver through XBMC .

It also turned out to be a pretty sweet internet radio for listening at work.

edit: lol it's funnier with a diagram
my computer -> (wireless) -> VNC server -> amaroK -> ALSA sound driver -> mp3 (lame encoder) -> icecast2 server -> (ethernet) -> XBMC -> optical cable -> receiver

xbmc can read mp3s directly, if its on the same network you won't need to icecast it... even if its not the same network you can still connect to the shared folders, if shared

I'm not exactly sure where darkice writes the mp3 buffer because it mounts it directly to an icecast server.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: elmro
Why not just setup airtunes with an Airport Express?

KISS

The bluetooth adapter was $25, airport express is $90+

$65 well spent to keep your music from sounding like crap.

 

[aphex]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: aphex

Originally posted by: elmro
Why not just setup airtunes with an Airport Express?

KISS

The bluetooth adapter was $25, airport express is $90+

$65 well spent to keep your music from sounding like crap.

sounding like crap? It sounds great via bluetooth...