MPD+PulseAudio = cheap+fast+awesome whole-home audio

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

In case anyone's interested, I've expanded some on the response
that I gave Derek about doing whole-home audio with MPD+PulseAudio,
in my online journal:

    http://www.hackerposse.com/~rozzin/chronicle/whole-home-pulseaudio.html

This version includes a few details that I missed in the last e-mail
(like what I needed to do in order to get it working on the plug-computers),
and copious hyperlinks to explainations of what the various software-packages
are and how to do some possibly-obscure things in Debian.

Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
>
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> > Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
> > >
> > > I've setup multicast RTP with latency-matching across all nodes
> > > in the network; I have only one `channel' right now (in the radio-tuner
> > > or input-switching sense, not in the `mono vs. stereo' sense), but it's
> > > possible to define multiple channels/sources by giving them separate
> > > multicast addresses, and then switch a given receiver to another channel
> > > just by changing the multicast address on which that receiver listens.
[...]
> > Okay, I'll bite...
> > 
> > Could you give more details on how you set this up?  I'd not heard of
> > MPD until this email, so I just looked it up.  It certainly exists in
> > Fedora 12 (my current desktop -- yeah, yeah, I know) and from my minimal
> > reading it sounds pretty cool.
> > 
> > What I'm more interested in learning about is how you set up MPD to
> > perform your multiple room synchronization, what clients you use, and
> > how/where you store your music and playlists on the network?

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