Re: Synchronized MP3 playing?

[Sander Smeenk <ssmeenk@freshdot.net>]

Quoting Greg Berenfield (gberenfield@berenfield.com):
> You might want to consider running your own icecast server. 
> Then you're serving up an audio stream of your own playlist.

IceCast is not synchronised. You will almost always hear a different
timing.   I did once create a tool to play mp3 on two computers
completely synchronized though, you need netcat, and mpg123:

mknod /tmp/listen1 p
mknod /tmp/listen2 p

cat /tmp/listen1 | nc -l -p 31331 &
cat /tmp/listen2 | nc -l -p 31332 &

<now connect one machine by ethernet to port 31331, and another,
or localhost if you want, to 31332. Something like this:
nc 192.168.1.1 31331 | mpg123 - on the other PC and
nc 0 31332 | mpg123 - on the localhost>

cat mp3file.mp3 | tee listen1 > listen2

This should, when your ethernet is fast enough for the bit-rate of the
mp3, stream a mp3 _very_ synchronised on two PC's :)

Heh, the things you do when you are bored,

Sander.


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