Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running Windows?
Thanks in advance.
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Stewart Williams wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running Windows?
Thanks in advance.
Easiest way is to hook a cable from the output of computer B and put it in the input (Mic) jack of computer A. :-) I've done that before. Of course, if they are really not even in the same room, that's not going to be practical. However, if they are sitting right next to each other, that's the easiest way to accomplish it.
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Stewart Williams wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running Windows?
Thanks in advance.
Easiest way is to hook a cable from the output of computer B and put it in the input (Mic) jack of computer A. :-) I've done that before. Of course, if they are really not even in the same room, that's not going to be practical. However, if they are sitting right next to each other, that's the easiest way to accomplish it.
They are right next to each other, however the mic on my headset plugs into the mic jack :-(
Stewart Williams wrote:
They are right next to each other, however the mic on my headset plugs into the mic jack :-(
Most audio hardware have a line-in port, usually blue in color. Output from computer B can be fed into the line-in port and you will still be able to use your mic.
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Stewart Williams wrote:
Easiest way is to hook a cable from the output of computer B and put it in the input (Mic) jack of computer A. :-) I've done that before. Of course, if they are really not even in the same room, that's not going to be practical. However, if they are sitting right next to each other, that's the easiest way to accomplish it.
They are right next to each other, however the mic on my headset plugs into the mic jack :-(
Easy enough to fix... get a 2>1 1/8" adapter. :-) Go down to Radio Shack (I know... they're kind of expensive, but they're convenient and about the only place you can *easily* find this sort of stuff) and explain what you're trying to do. They'll probably have the the correct "splitter" in stock and will be able to put it in your hands for $10 or less, including the cable to go from PC A to PC B. :-)
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Stewart Williams wrote:
They are right next to each other, however the mic on my headset plugs into the mic jack :-(
Easy enough to fix... get a 2>1 1/8" adapter. :-) Go down to Radio Shack (I know... they're kind of expensive, but they're convenient and about the only place you can *easily* find this sort of stuff) and explain what you're trying to do. They'll probably have the the correct "splitter" in stock and will be able to put it in your hands for $10 or less, including the cable to go from PC A to PC B. :-)
This is a bad idea. Between the input source level differences, and the probability that you will try to drive the microphone as a speaker, you will not be happy with the results. Also, the Mic input is probably a mono input.
Mikkel
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Stewart Williams wrote:
They are right next to each other, however the mic on my headset plugs into the mic jack :-(
Easy enough to fix... get a 2>1 1/8" adapter. :-) Go down to Radio Shack (I know... they're kind of expensive, but they're convenient and about the only place you can *easily* find this sort of stuff) and explain what you're trying to do. They'll probably have the the correct "splitter" in stock and will be able to put it in your hands for $10 or less, including the cable to go from PC A to PC B. :-)
This is a bad idea. Between the input source level differences, and the probability that you will try to drive the microphone as a speaker, you will not be happy with the results. Also, the Mic input is probably a mono input.
Good point. My bad. I did mean the line input. I haven't had to do this in awhile as both my Windows machine and my Fedora machine have speakers. :-)
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Stewart Williams wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running Windows?
Thanks in advance.
Easiest way is to hook a cable from the output of computer B and put it in the input (Mic) jack of computer A. :-) I've done that before. Of course, if they are really not even in the same room, that's not going to be practical. However, if they are sitting right next to each other, that's the easiest way to accomplish it.
You want to use the Line In or Aux jack, not the Mic jack. If computer B has a Line Out jack or setting, that is better then the speaker. You will get less distortion.
A harder way would be to use something like icecast on system B to stream the music over the network.
Mikkel
On 02/10/2008 10:29:12 AM, Stewart Williams wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running Windows?
I can (sort of) think of a couple of ways. If the two machines are physically close enough, as has already been mentioned, physically wire the speaker jack from B to the input of A. Not terribly elegant, but simple and works. Next up would be to remotely mount the file system from B on A. Options include, but not limited to: NFS, Samba, and sshfs. I use NFS personally to get my limited music collection routed around the home network, but Samba might be better if you plan on running sound through box A running Windows. In either case, media files play on machine A as if they were hosted locally.
After those two classes of approach, I guess that you could get into some sort of streaming solution, but you're _way_ out of my league there. It also seems that PulseAudio has network capabilities. If you get _that_ to work nicely for you, you may meet with widespread disbelief on this list however, as lots of us seem to have trouble with Pulse.
Hope this helps.
Stewart Williams wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running Windows?
Have you looked into VideoLan? [ http://www.videolan.org/ ]
From their website:
It is a free cross-platform media player It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
I'm a complete yutz wrt multimedia and Linux but VideoLan has given my desktop life. Just for the heckuvit I've run multiple instances so I could listen to songs "in the round".
It runs very nicely on a 1G 512 white box.
Highly recommended.
Mike Wright :m)
On Feb 10, 2008 4:05 PM, Mike Wright mike.wright@mailinator.com wrote:
Stewart Williams wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running Windows?
Have you looked into VideoLan? [ http://www.videolan.org/ ]
From their website:
It is a free cross-platform media player It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
I'm a complete yutz wrt multimedia and Linux but VideoLan has given my desktop life. Just for the heckuvit I've run multiple instances so I could listen to songs "in the round".
It runs very nicely on a 1G 512 white box.
Highly recommended.
My preferred network applications for mp3:
ampache mpd/phpMp icecast/ices0
They can also brodcast to the outside world, if you wish (to your work, e.g .).
And pulseaudio definitely works in a local network.
But ampache is "hors concours". It is far just the best of all.
Stewart Williams wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
This is one of the features of pulseaudio on that shiny F8. Some info at: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#CurrentStatus http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/LennartPoettering http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup
That said I haven't done it myself ;-)
DaveT.
Stewart Williams wrote:
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I thought someone may know the exact answer quickly.
Computer A = Fedora 8 Computer B = Fedora 8
On Computer A I have headphones connected to my speaker jack and is where I listen to my music. However, I store also music on Computer B and have no speakers connected to the soundcard.
What I want to know is, is it possible to say double click on an mp3 file on Computer B and have it output the sound through my network to the headphones connected on Computer A's soundcard?
And also (not essential) is this also possible if Computer A is running Windows?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I think PulseAudio will do the trick for a software-based solution. Failing that, I will opt for the cable method - line-out to line-in.
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