networked audio

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:13:17AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >This ought to be a fast, binary question: are there any [relatively]
> >simple ways to set up a utility to play sounds [or sound+video] on a
> >remote computer (say, 25m apart)  and have the mp3/au/wav/ogg files on
> >the distant computer and the audio play thru the nice speaker system in
> >my office?
> 
> 
> cat mp3files|rsh -l username remote.computer.name "mpg123 -"

	Well, that's simple enough:) plus being pretty sharp because it
	works.  "mplayer -" works from the cmd line but tries and fails
	to seek backward to the origin.  

	thanks much,

	gary


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