[ILUG] Audio server

[Sonic Dread]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Gareth Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie> wrote:

> Sonic Dread wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Philip Creevy <tiger98 at iol.ie> wrote:
> >
> >>>       I'm going to cheekily suggest that the problem you are trying to
> >> solve
> >>> is NOT setting up an audio server ;) It's more likely something like:
> >>>       - I want a central repository where I can store all my music and
> >>>       - have the ability to play any music in any room in my house and
> >>>       - share it with my friends who use iTunes when they are in the
> >> house
> >>>       - and control it all using $widget_remote_control-XYZ made by
> ACME
> >>> corporation.
> >>>
> > Just out of interest, have you set up such a system? If so, what did you
> > use? Sounds like something I'd like to do :)
> [snip]
>
>        No - but it's something I've committed to doing once I move house
> (which will
> hopefully happen in the next 6 weeks or so.)
>
>        I'll let you know how I get on, and my system will play video
> content to the
> TV as well. I'm hoping to avoid the issues with strawberry jam getting on
> DVDs
> and subsequently smeared on the optics of the DVD player by having
> everything
> stored on a central storage system.
>

That'd be great. I'll look forward to reading about/implementing it ;)

Cheers,

Sonic