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From: flarosa on 26 Nov 2009 11:20 Is there any way for a Mac to route its audio through another Mac on the local network? I know this can be done with screen sharing, but I want something more permanent. Thanks, Frank
From: nospam on 26 Nov 2009 13:25 In article <7fa80b21-5d10-4cbc-9a5d-7c0da3236dbb(a)r5g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, flarosa <frank(a)franklarosa.com> wrote: > Is there any way for a Mac to route its audio through another Mac on > the local network? > > I know this can be done with screen sharing, but I want something more > permanent. <http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/speakers.php>
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 26 Nov 2009 19:41 flarosa wrote: > Is there any way for a Mac to route its audio through another Mac on > the local network? > > I know this can be done with screen sharing, but I want something more > permanent. Hm, maybe a bit too wide described.... But if yhou mean that you for example can let iTunes play the music on computer 'A' and receive the sound on computer 'B''s speakers via the network, the answer is no, this isn't possible. But if you mean that all your music is stored on computer 'A', and want it to be played/listened to on computer 'B' in another room, then the answer is yes. Mount the computer 'A' from computer 'B', so that the disk containing the music is visible on the desktop on computer 'B'. Open your musicplayher application - iTunes, VLC, Cog X, Audion X or whatever sound app you use for playback. If you use iTunes on computer 'B', be sure that iTunes prefs settings is set so that it won't import files to the computer 'B'. To play the music then, it's just to open the music harddisk and select the files/folders you want to play and drag them to the playlist window and start playing. I use this method rather often myself, because I have one of my machines in another room, and don't want to have music on it's harddisks, so I just mount the music harddisk - an external Firewire disk on my main computer. Doing it this way, you can also play the music at the same time on different machines in different rooms. If it is music CDs/DVDs you can also do this by activating 'DVD or CD sharing' in the Systempreferences -> 'Sharing'. Then you can insert for example a mp3 DVD in the drive in computer 'A' and call it from computer 'B'. NOTE: 'Sharing' must be active on any of the computers that should act as the playback computer. NOTE2: It is not limited to 2 computers, but can be used on all computers on a local network - cabled or wireless doesn't matter. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: nospam on 26 Nov 2009 20:10 In article <4b0f2055$0$8548$ba624c82(a)nntp06.dk.telia.net>, Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > Hm, maybe a bit too wide described.... But if yhou mean that you for > example can let iTunes play the music on computer 'A' and receive the > sound on computer 'B''s speakers via the network, the answer is no, this > isn't possible. yes it is very possible.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 27 Nov 2009 07:35
Michelle Steiner wrote: > Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: >> Hm, maybe a bit too wide described.... But if yhou mean that you for >> example can let iTunes play the music on computer 'A' and receive the >> sound on computer 'B''s speakers via the network, the answer is no, this >> isn't possible. > > Yes it is, with Simplify Media. > <http://www.simplifymedia.com/> Maybe it should do, but it doesn't work, if you don't have the same system version on both/all computers. - I.e. you can't have OS X 10.5.x/10.6.x on the 'host' and 10.4.x on the 'slaves'. You must have at least 10.5.x on all machines. And as long as the OP doesn't specify which systems on which computers I presume that systems most likely are different. - It could for example be a MacMini with 10.5/10.6 as a mediacenter connected to the TV and HiFi equipment in the livingroom and an older G4/G5/laptop with 10.4.x in the home office/working room. If it is something like this in the OP's case, my solution will be the only one to work. - And I can guarantee that it /DOES/ work too.:-)! Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |