[mythtv-users] Sync'd MythMusic

[zaphod at comcast.net]

Yes, your right, I had actually thought of this issue, but forgot to mention in in my first note.  It depends on what the goal is, if you have multiple clients playing the same stream in different areas of the house in such a way that you can't hear the other clients (low volume/distance/walls) then close is probably fine.  If yoou want near perfect, like a stream of party music intended to be played loud all over the house so that you can hear the music as you move from room to room, then close is probably not good enough.  In that case you are probably better off with an RF or hardwired solution on the speaker side.

I doubt any network protocol is going to be able to nail this kind of sync, even a multicast situation is going to be problematic.

-Eric
> The problem with using an icecast like solution is going to be timing.
> In my experience, when I try to run multiple streams from an icecast
> server they are never actually sync'd.  This has to do with the caching
> of the stream that each player uses.  I suppose it would be possible
> when streaming to not use a cache, and then every player should be
> playing the same stream at the same time.  Any thoughts on this?
> 
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> > zaphod at comcast.net
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> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Sync'd MythMusic
> > 
> > 
> > The fact that current MythMusic is frontend based is going to 
> > make that impossible I think.  The has been some disscussion 
> > over time about streaming and Internet Radio support, not 
> > sure how active any of that work might be . . .
> > 
> > Personally I think MythMusic should be allowed to continue as 
> > a stand alone frontend module, some of the more 
> > audiophile-type users that use only lossless flak 
> > compression, and use SPDIF to external receivers/decoders may 
> > not appreciate 128kpbs or even 192 kpbs Icecast streaming.
> > 
> > Perhaps we should spin off the streaming to a new module(s), 
> > maybe call it MythCast? MythCastServer would be installed 
> > only one location on your network, preferably you Master 
> > Backend.  MythCastClient could be installed on any frontend 
> > and would allow "requests" to the MythCastServer.  Obviously, 
> > with would have shared access to the MythMusic collection and 
> > song lists.
> > 
> > There are many, many icecast/apache web jukebox applications 
> > that allow this type of behavior, should be too hard to 
> > leverage some of these GPL programs to set-up MythCast.
> > 
> > -Eric
> > > I have multiple frontends arrayed around my house, and I 
> > was wondering 
> > > if anyone had figured out a way to sync the music playing 
> > in mythmusic 
> > > to all the frontends in the house so that they are not all only 
> > > playing the same playlist but at the same time.  Has anyone found a 
> > > way to do this?
> > > 
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