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Streaming Audio without a soundcard
I have ripped my entire CD collection to MP3's for easier access in my
home theatre setup. I've been using my modded XBox with XBMC to play them lately but have noticed that some of them do not work for some reason (all MP3's were made with Audio Catalyst at 320Kbps and exactly the same settings). I've never had a problem playing them on my PC before. I've also thought the current setup is somewhat limited, so I want to setup a shoutcast or icecast audio stream in my house. Here is the problem: I have all my mp3's on a 500GB Raid array on a FreeBSD server. I want to do all the streaming from the FreeBSD box and do not want to run any extra software from my windows machine. The FreeBSD box does not have X11 installed and does not have a monitor hooked up to it. I also do not have a soundcard install in the FreeBSD box. Does anyone know if it's possible to setup the streaming in this fashion? So far it seems like all the how-to's I've found expect you to have a soundcard but I can't figure out what for. Thanks, Rob |
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Lucas Tam wrote in
: (Rob) wrote in news:83330b39.0411301111.79699b44 @posting.google.com: I have all my mp3's on a 500GB Raid array on a FreeBSD server. I want to do all the streaming from the FreeBSD box and do not want to run any extra software from my windows machine. The FreeBSD box does not have X11 installed and does not have a monitor hooked up to it. I also do not have a soundcard install in the FreeBSD box. Does anyone know if it's possible to setup the streaming in this fashion? So far it seems like all the how-to's I've found expect you to have a soundcard but I can't figure out what for. I think the Turtle Beach Audiotron can stream without software. There is a software server too for added features. Another choice is SlimDevices SlimMp3 uses the SilmServer which is a perl script. Roku's M1000/M2000 also uses SlimServer. -- Lucas Tam ) Please delete "REMOVE" from the e-mail address when replying. http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/coolspot18/ |
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I tried the SlimServer and it works GREAT! super easy to setup from
the ports collection on FreeBSD. I even went ahead and upgraded it from their website and that was easy too. The only problem I have with it is that you can't seem to have 1 stream that all systems listen from. I don't suppose you know how to make it do that? I looked at the SoftSqueeze program but I'm not too excited about it. Anyways, thanks for the tip. It made the process super easy. -- Rob On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:44:59 GMT, Lucas Tam wrote: Lucas Tam wrote in 0: (Rob) wrote in news:83330b39.0411301111.79699b44 @posting.google.com: I have all my mp3's on a 500GB Raid array on a FreeBSD server. I want to do all the streaming from the FreeBSD box and do not want to run any extra software from my windows machine. The FreeBSD box does not have X11 installed and does not have a monitor hooked up to it. I also do not have a soundcard install in the FreeBSD box. Does anyone know if it's possible to setup the streaming in this fashion? So far it seems like all the how-to's I've found expect you to have a soundcard but I can't figure out what for. I think the Turtle Beach Audiotron can stream without software. There is a software server too for added features. Another choice is SlimDevices SlimMp3 uses the SilmServer which is a perl script. Roku's M1000/M2000 also uses SlimServer. |
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