On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Randy Westlund <rwest...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 06:18:42PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> Am 29.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Randy Westlund: >> > Hey guys, >> > >> > I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home >> > office. I used to carry them back and forth when I wanted good music, but >> > that was a pain. I currently have a RasPi running arch connected to the >> > speakers -- I've been cat-ing audio files over ssh to mplayer, and that >> > mostly works (no fast-forward/skip). I also tried using reverse-ssh and >> > sshfs to mount my files on the RasPi, but that seems silly. >> > >> > What I really want is to be able to stream audio from my browser to the >> > RasPi's speakers (pandora, grooveshark). I'd like to set up an audio >> > device that maps to the RasPi. Something like /dev/dsp1, perhaps. If I >> > could have some audio sent to the RasPi and leave mcabber's chat >> > notifications on my laptop's speakers, that'd be fantastic. >> > >> > Does anyone have a setup like this? Know of any good options? >> > >> > Randy >> > >> I don't know what desktop env you are running, but would PulseAudio be >> an option? You could send the audio from your program (browser) to the >> Pi but keep the chat notification on your local machine. >> > > I switch between xfce and xmonad (from startx). My only experience with > pulseaudio is "the weird audio thing that keeps messing up ubuntu" from two > years ago when I had just gotten off windows. After taking a second look, it > looks promising. Thanks. > > Randy >
I was going to suggest pulseaudio just from the title of the thread. It's just for audio so you don't have to muck around with everything else (but OpenElec is a great option if you want a media center). The only thing I can think of is you might want to adjust the "resample-method" in daemon.conf if you find it's using too much CPU. -- Alecks Gates
