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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

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From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
 
> How much is 'a little disk space'?

Just enough to buffer the mp3 stream. It looks like you have plenty.

> 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?)

How can you listen if it 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?

Here's a basic plan:

On the computer connected to the Internet:

wget -O - http://www.mp3.com/some_mp3_stream.mp3 | tee buffer | nc -l -p 95

On the other one:

nc address_of_other_PC 95 | mpg123 -

This should start playback on the other one. To start playing on the
one connected to the Internet,

cat buffer | mpg123 -

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

If you ever get MPlayer working, see if it can decode your RA streams.

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

Both of my MPlayers can handle Ogg (Theora (video) and Vorbis (audio))

> > 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.

The circuit is more reliable.

> 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.

David

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