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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > Is there some way, using a long ethernet cable, to run the
> > streaming MP3 sound upstairs from this computer, in real time, and
> > listen to the same music on two computers at the same time, via one
> > modem and phone connection?
>
> Yes. There are several ways to do this. Do you care if the feeds are
> out of sync? If a little disk space is consumed? Which machine do you
> want to do the MP3 decoding? Both?


How much is 'a little disk space'?  I think we could come up with 50M-100B 
on each machine, or add another hard drive if needed (340MB).  Right now I 
have mpg123 set up on the downstairs machine.  The upstairs one needs a 
sound card and speakers added, or we could run it to another downstairs 
location which is set for sound already (also set for Realaudio - could I 
also listen to that fed to my computer, where Realaduio segfaults?)

I was wondering if you could do a send/receive between computers, or set 
up httpd and download from one computer to the other via wget without 
retaining the file on the first computer - can you split it to both play 
on one computer and send to another, with some sort of double pipe?

Is there some simple convertor from realaudio format to mp3 format?

For anyone interested in Ogg Vorbis, try WCLU, at 28K.

> The method you use will depend on the answers to these questions.

My simpler idea was to get a long speaker wire extension and run it 
upstairs along with one of the two stereo speakers, since the streams are 
mono.  My partner wants to learn ethernet from this experiment.  He also 
wants to learn to program for data acquisition in linux, via serial port, 
so as to turn the attic fan on when it is cooler out than in.  A neighbor 
suggested a simple electonic circuit instead.

I found also weku, where a former roommate hosts a 3-hour classical music 
program every morning.  wdav, wuol, and wmnr are nearly 100% classical 
(the last of these not Friday, Saturday, or Sunday evenings).  The other 
two are half talk.  Several stations said they just started doing 
streaming MP3 but they started at 64K or higher.

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