Will do, although that Sonos product looks awful good.  Of course,
since most of my music is OGG encoded, that makes it tough to
find any kind of a remote player for it, and that website reads like
a Best Buy salesman.

Mike H.

On 4/12/06, Jesse Lackey <jsl-ml@celestialaudio.com> wrote:
> You might look into CobraNet - digital audio over ethernet.  Designed
> for professional multitrack recording.
>
> http://www.cirrus.com/en/products/pro/techs/T9.html
>
> I don't have any experience with it.
>
> Also you've probably seen this already, but if not:
> http://www.sonos.com/
> great stuff.  a friend of mine has his house set up with it.  fun fun.
> not so cheap though.
>
> Spdif @ 44.1Khz stereo is on the order of 2.8mbits/sec, I believe.
> (44.1Khz * 32bits/sample * 2tracks).  This could be sent via rs-485,
> over an unused pair in the ethernet cable.  How resilient the ethernet
> data is to this new signal down the cable, I couldn't say.
>
> Anyway, interesting little project.  do post more as things develop.
>
> J
>
>
>
> Mike Hord wrote:
>
> >>>An easy solution is to use Shoutcast from the creators of WinAmp. Run a
> >>>Shoutcast server on the PC and a client in each place that you want to
> >>>listen. I've used it to stream audio to multiple locations within my home
> >>>and it kept the audio of all the clients in synch.
> >>
> >>One possible problem with that solution is that there are fairly large
> >>buffers between you and the original sound source in shoutcast. So
> >>basically, if you change the music playing on the shoutcast server,
> >>it'll take a few seconds to hear the change. Could be very annoying.
> >>
> >>It's also why shoutcast simply can't be used as a cable replacement, for
> >>say streaming live audio within a building. You'd be way out of synch,
> >>by 10 seconds to as much as one minute in my experience,
> >>intolerable in many situations.
> >
> >
> > Which is why I discarded audio over Ethernet in the first place.  It just
> > occurred to me that my little buffer box which converts the SPDIF to
> > a more transmissible signal level could also have a multiplexer which
> > would allow me to hook in a conventional audio signal from, say, a radio
> > tuner.  Saves me the trouble of having a tuner in my PC and lets me
> > distribute ANY audio signal I choose through my apartment.
> >
> > Plus, shoutcast might not (haven't looked too hard at it) allow me to
> > remotely manage my playlist and request new songs, while my
> > system would.
> >
> > Mike H.
> >
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