On 10/4/07, David K?gedal <davidk at lysator.liu.se> wrote: > "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. NFS mount the laptop. > > -- > David K?gedal > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl at gmail.com
