[mythtv-users] Sync'd MythMusic

James L. Paul james at mauibay.net
Tue Feb 24 21:15:36 EST 2004


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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 6:45 am, Adam Biskobing wrote:
> 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?

My experience with trying to stream to multiple machines in the house or 
office has convinced me it's not worth it unless all the locations are 
completely out of earshot of each other.

There's no practical way to completely synchronize the players, even if they 
all use a streaming protocol that uses a timebase shared by all players, the 
local buffers and whatnot seem to always cause enough variation in sync that 
if you can hear more than one player it's obvious that they are not in sync. 
Even if you get the sync well within 1 second, it's still amazingly annoying 
to listen to if it's not perfect.

Start up an icecast server, serve up a stream and press play on two computers 
at the same time and you'll see what I mean. Streaming just isn't any good 
for use as extension speakers. ;)

Of course, if the listening areas don't overlap, the sync doesn't matter. But 
then I assume you wouldn't be asking the question. :)
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