Controlling audio remotely

RealitySlap8 · Jul 12, 2008

So this might be a tad off topic for this forum, but I figure I'll try..

Does anybody know of any ways to control the audio output of a computer remotely? I have a computer in the basement and I would like it to output the same audio that this computer (upstairs) is playing. Hopefully that makes sense..

Thanks

don256us · Jul 12, 2008

I'm not 100% sure I'm up on what you want. Lets say that you want to play some music upstairs and stream the same "program" downstiars. The downstairs machine would have a slight off-set as it would have to deal with a very slight lag. This would only be noticable if you could hear both sources at the same time.

If you do want to stream your audio to the downstairs machine, I'm sure that you can find free programs that allow that. I just don't know what they are.

RealitySlap8 · Jul 12, 2008

Yeah, thats the idea.. I found an old thread that helped me a bit, apparently its termed 'audio tunneling'.. I've got some VST plug in that supposedly works very well, i'm just struggling on how to use the VST..

nd4spdbh2 · Jul 12, 2008

this is quite easy actually... as long as you can connect each of the computers via lan its easy..

install Windows Media Encoder 9 (free from microsoft) to stream any audio played on the host computer (its very easy to do) then simply start up windows media player on the client computer and go file > open url and then type in the ip of the host comp.

there will be about a 5-10 second lag between the audio output of the host to the audio of the client due to compression and processing.

RealitySlap8 · Jul 12, 2008

yeah, I'm really trying to eliminate that lag.. :/ I set up a shoutcast station since I already use winamp and ran into a ~10 second lag..

Spion · Jul 13, 2008

you could give VLC a try. I'm not sure how much latency you would get but i wouldn't think i would be too much. It works pretty similar to what nd4spdbh2 described.

www.videolan.org

Here's a guide on how to setup streaming with VLC using the built in wizard.
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch02.html#id305152

http://www.videolan.org/doc/

That is a link to any other info you might need to get things setup with VLC.

I don't know if this is what you were looking for or not but it is another option to look at.

curtis1552 · Jul 13, 2008

I found a couple of things that should do it:
http://www.xlobby.com/features -------- not free ; 45 day trial and costs
http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/sync.html ---- appears free (GPL); multi platform
another option is to set up a shourtcast radio station server, then have both set up as clients to access it.

Sir Barton · Jul 13, 2008

nd4spdbh2 said:
this is quite easy actually... as long as you can connect each of the computers via lan its easy..

install Windows Media Encoder 9 (free from microsoft) to stream any audio played on the host computer (its very easy to do) then simply start up windows media player on the client computer and go file > open url and then type in the ip of the host comp.

there will be about a 5-10 second lag between the audio output of the host to the audio of the client due to compression and processing.

Or if you want better sound quality you could VLC or Foobar2000

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nd4spdbh2 · Jul 13, 2008

curtis1552 said:
I found a couple of things that should do it:
http://www.xlobby.com/features -------- not free ; 45 day trial and costs
http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/sync.html ---- appears free (GPL); multi platform
another option is to set up a shourtcast radio station server, then have both set up as clients to access it.

ah ya theres an option, setup a streaming server on whatever comp and have both comps connect to the streaming server.

RealitySlap8 · Jul 13, 2008

Thanks for all the replys guys,

Like I said earlier, the shoutcast delay was very noticeable, xLobby was only available as a trial and was also not sold as software only.. I tried a buncha other stuff without much success.

I found this thread that covered a similar topic (Curtis I believe you posted the program that ended up working the best) http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=533907&highlight=remote+audio

With that winamp plugin and the Tuppesoft Audio Tunnel VST plugin I got it all synched up, just some occasional crackles.. Thanks for the input

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