Wireless connecting to play music

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On 04/07/2011 11:31 AM, Sam Albers wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I am having a little trouble figuring something out and I was just hoping
> that someone might point me in the right direction. I am sure that there is
> a tutorial somewhere on how to do this but I can't seem to find it.
> 
> Here is what I was hoping to do: I have an older machine that I am not using
> and I would like to use it as a wireless music box. That is, I would like to
> be able to be sitting on the couch with my main machine and be able to
> control my music wirelessly. So I am envisioning the older machine having
> all the music files on it and being able to somehow connect to that machine
> which presumably would be running Ubuntu. The older machine, connect
> wirelessly to my router, would be plugged into my stereo while the other
> machine would not (although also connected wireless to the router). Also, if
> possible I would like to be able to connect using not only my Ubuntu machine
> but other computers running different OSes (Mac, Windows, etc). Can anyone
> recommend a decent way to accomplish this?

Sure. You can either VNC or NX into the music machine to control.

You can also just set the music machine to use pulse audio; that way you
can control the music from the main machine & have it play via the music
machine. For example; I have multiple test machines that have no
speakers connected to them. In order to actually hear what is playing on
the test machine, I use pulse audio to connect to the machine with
speakers.

This might be of interest (I've not installed/tried):

Pulse Whole Home Audio
http://gitorious.org/pulse-whole-home-audio/pages/Home
http://gitorious.org/pulse-whole-home-audio/pages/InstallGuide
http://gitorious.org/pulse-whole-home-audio