"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl at gmail.com> writes: > On 10/3/07, Matthieu Baechler <matthieu.baechler at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 10/3/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 10/3/07, Matthieu Baechler <matthieu.baechler at gmail.com> wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > I'm currently looking for an appliance that would offer the same >> > > feature as AirTunes from Apple, but obviously, using free software, >> > > and thus pulseaudio. >> > > >> > > Does any one have some links pointing to such hardware ? >> > > >> > > It has to : >> > > >> > > 1/ be small >> > > 2/ be pretty (as in "it must be accepted by my wife") >> > > 3/ be power efficient (less than ~10W, ~1W in standby) >> > > 4/ be silent (no moving part) >> > >> > Use a NSLU2 and plug in USB devices for 802.11G and USB audio >> >> I already considered this solution, but unfortunately it doesn't >> really match the esthetics requirements (from my wife point's of >> view). > > I work in this are and there isn't really anything else but a Sonos. > Sonos is Linux based, expensive, and they have only partially released > the source. You can't really modify it. > > NSLU2 is best choice. Just hide it behind something. It is quite > small, size of a paperback novel. I use one to drive my multi-room > audio system. It has five USB audio dongles attached and a 500GB disk. > It runs five copies of mpd. I control it over 802.11G using a Nokia > N800. That's still not within spec. He wanted something to stream audio data to. The mpd solution requires you to have the audio data on the disk connected to the NSLU, correct. I guess you could read it over the network, but it's not the same thing as having a remote sound card for your laptop. -- David K?gedal
