[pulseaudio-discuss] A pulseaudio appliance

[Jon Smirl]

On 10/4/07, David Kågedal <davidk at lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 10/3/07, Matthieu Baechler <matthieu.baechler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 10/3/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On 10/3/07, Matthieu Baechler <matthieu.baechler at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > Hi,
> >> > >
> >> > > I'm currently looking for an appliance that would offer the same
> >> > > feature as AirTunes from Apple, but obviously, using free software,
> >> > > and thus pulseaudio.
> >> > >
> >> > > Does any one have some links pointing to such hardware ?
> >> > >
> >> > > It has to :
> >> > >
> >> > > 1/ be small
> >> > > 2/ be pretty (as in "it must be accepted by my wife")
> >> > > 3/ be power efficient (less than ~10W, ~1W in standby)
> >> > > 4/ be silent (no moving part)
> >> >
> >> > Use a NSLU2 and plug in USB devices for 802.11G and USB audio
> >>
> >> I already considered this solution, but unfortunately it doesn't
> >> really match the esthetics requirements (from my wife point's of
> >> view).
> >
> > I work in this are and there isn't really anything else but a Sonos.
> > Sonos is Linux based, expensive, and they have only partially released
> > the source. You can't really modify it.
> >
> > NSLU2 is best choice. Just hide it behind something. It is quite
> > small, size of a paperback novel. I use one to drive my multi-room
> > audio system. It has five USB audio dongles attached and a 500GB disk.
> > It runs five copies of mpd. I control it over 802.11G using a Nokia
> > N800.
>
> That's still not within spec.  He wanted something to stream audio
> data to.  The mpd solution requires you to have the audio data on the
> disk connected to the NSLU, correct.  I guess you could read it over
> the network, but it's not the same thing as having a remote sound card
> for your laptop.

NFS mount the laptop.


>
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> David Kågedal
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Jon Smirl
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