Hi,
I want to be able to send audio from one PC to another. I spend most of my time at my "work" computer. It has my music collection, but just earphones. I also have a "home" computer which is connected to an amplifier and some decent speakers. Both run Windows XP and I currently use foobar2000 as my audio player.
I started thinking that it would be nice if I could stream the audio from my work computer to my home one and have the music come out the speakers.
I've done a fair amount of searching and have been able to get basic functionality with VLC RTP Unicast. This is not really suitable for two reasons:
1. VLC running as a NT Service (receiving on the home computer) does not seem stable. I have to re-start it often as the audio seems to get out of sync and become very "chopped up". There are probably VLC configuration options that would fix this.
2. I would rather continue using foobar2000 as my audio player.
My reading suggests that I should be able to do it with Oddcast and Icecast, or similar. These are new to me and there would be a bit of a learning curve and I can't help but think that this would be overkill for what I am trying to do. This solution would also seem to require more intervention on the "home" computer than I would like - it would be nice if it could be just a dumb receiver.
Is there any simple way to do this?
Thanks,
Brian