a good solution share the speaker?

[Zhang Weiwu]

Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Feb 28), Zhang Weiwu said:
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>>Several people are using notebooks in the office, the big desktop
>>computer stores music. A good speaker is pluged into the desktop
>>computer (FreeBSD).
>>
>>What do you think is the best solution to share the speaker? 
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>>These are what I can think of:
>>* Marc Lehmann wrote a perl module for playing music with mpg123. Write a 
>>cgi script and let people select playlist/control play on the webpage. 
>>* Find a existing good mpg123 frontend, modify it, let it control the
>>mpg123 on another computer through ssh or even let inetd bring up the
>>mpg123 player and let the fontend talk to a socket.
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>http://www-scf.usc.edu/~bozhang/notes/esd.html describes how to use
>esound (which the mpg123 port is built with) to send audio to a remote
>machine.  You could also use xmms, since it has esd support too.  I
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That's a good idea. I am worrying that uncompressed sound takes lots of 
bandwidth, some people in the office are using (average) 500Kbps 
bluetooth link, uncompressed CD audio is 16*2*44100=1400Kbps, can esound 
manipulate it?