Multi-room audio

[Pandamonium]

I'm tinkering with ShoutCAST, but it seems give a delay between DJ and listener...

I've got 3 rooms over which I'd like to synchronize music (down to the beat). Is there a way to do this, or is the only method to create identical playlists and time hitting the play button?

 

[Modeps]

With software? I dont think so... look into the airport express
http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/

 

[thelanx]

Why don't you wire the speakers together? Or is that too much wire?

 

[CycloWizard]

Shoutcast always has a delay between the DJ's setup and the listener's. One way to do it is to run WinAmp for the DJ, mute the sound in WinAmp (there is a setting that allows you to isolate WinAmp volume from system volume), then connect to your station using some other program on the same computer.

 

[nageov3t]

you could do it with a radio tuner. broadcast on an unused frequency and tune radios in all the rooms to that station.

my friend does it whenever he has parties; creates a playlist on his pc, and then broadcasts it to radios in the living room, bathrooms, kitchen, and his backyard. the sound quality takes a hit, though.

 

[Dman877]

Couldn't you just wire the speakers/amps all to the same source? are you trying to do this on the cheap? What about a multi-room receiver...

 

[IncredibleHutch]

Making any attempt to sync up the music in multiple rooms won't work.

Ever have multiple radios in various rooms all on same station... only for it to almost sound like there's an echo when your on one half of the house.

It's because sound takes time to travel. With some 5.1 systems there's the option of changing the distance of the rear speakers to match the position of the movie watcher. So that way the sound coming out of the rear speakers is sync'd up to the front speakers.

Even having something like this to increase play back of the further away speakers so they play the music mere milli seconds before the other speakers do... you'll still have problems with echos when you're in 'that' room because now those speakers are playing the sound before all the rest by an even larger time frame than the rest in the house.

It's only possible to get the music to sound sync'd up if you have ONE listening spot picked out... once you move from that spot the echos will be back.