Streaming same content to 3 computer simultaneously

[laroux]

Hi, this is probably a dumb question but I have been trying to figure it out for hours with no success. I'm having a party and want to stream the same music to three different computers hooked to three different stereo systems in my house at the same time. I try to select the same play from each computer and I can hear it play on the server but no joy until I hit the play button on the local machine, and then it's out of synch with the server. Please help.

[sindre_mehus]

Sorry, that's not possible in Subsonic.

[deriksen]

It will be however, once we get Subsonic to broadcast over the Slimserver protocol (ref http://forum.subsonic.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1914). Of course, you'll need to buy a couple of Squeezebox receivers, but it would be oooh so sweet!

[BrianDelShasta]

If the server you have has a soundcard you can do this right now by just throwing vlc into the mix (or any other streaming server):

1) install vlc on your subsonic server
2) use subsonic's jukebox feature to allow a shared playlist to play sound output on the server
3) open vlc and setup a stream under media>streaming>capture device
4) select your audio device and setup a directshow stream
5) finally, use vlc, winamp, etc to connect to the vlc stream

This essentially acts like an internet radio station but any computer can adjust the playlist for the jukebox if you desire.

[deriksen]

Good post Brian!

[selectabence]

Hi Brian! thanks for this idea!

I tried to get this running - but up to now failed.

Can you give a little more info on how to choose the VLC streaming settings?
I know that it would probably need to be set to RTP in Outputs - right?

I used the subsonic jukebox feature with the result, that sound suddenly came out of the USB headset...

I managed to set up the VLC capture device (I chose the Headset, since that was where the sound came out) and VLC told me that it was "streaming".
but - where to?

How should I configure the Output? only one IP address? port 1234? will that need port forwarding again too?

what is the "generated stream output string" good for? if VLC is streaming to say:
RTP 91.115.169.198 Port 1234

what will the user with this RTP Adress have to do, to actually receive this stream and be able to listen to it?

Your advice is very much appreciated!!!