[Leaplist] spreading music throughout the house via Linux

[Dan Cherry]

On Wednesday 28 May 2008 5:21:44 pm Richard F. Ostrow Jr. wrote:
> Enough already... just use jack and some form of small form factor PC
>
> http://jackaudio.org/

Quick update:
Amarok with shouter.py works (sorta).  The broadcast and playback are very 
good.  Synchronization starts out decent, then deteriorates severely with 
latency, buffering, and worst of all, host activity (such as a pause).  
Definitely out of the running.

Then came Jack!  Jack in it's latest iteration (netjack functionality in 
jackd) should be exactly what I'm looking for.  But I spent most of the day 
finding out where functions have moved to, and where (K)ubuntu forgot to 
include the alsa jack plugins, and may not have included netjack in the jackd 
pkg  #*$(@&^.  At this point, Jack will run, but nothing will talk to it.  
Or... I can config things to talk to Jack, but then it won't run ;-)  So I'll 
pursue Jack a 'little' further when I regain a lot of my patience and have 
time to try a different distribution (or chase down fully functional debs).  

So far the only thing working perfectly, is Mark's suggestion to turn really 
big speakers, really WAY UP!  Or walk around with earbuds and a pocket ogg 
player.

-- 
Dan
Finding a solution to a problem doesn't solve the problem...
Implementing the solution, solves the problem