Stream audio over network?

February 12, 2008 6:56 PM

Anyone know a way to send an input audio stream from one computer to another?

I have a turntable hooked up to the audio input on my office PC for recording mp3's from LPs, does anyone know of a way to send that stream over the network to another PC, namely the one hooked to the stereo?

posted by Cosine to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

You could probably use VLC's network streaming features to do this. You can come up with a command line that will take the audio from line-in, encode it somehow, then broadcast it on your network in any manner of ways (MP3 over UDP, MP4 over TCP/IP or any combination of these ... and more!)
posted by yellowbkpk at 7:36 PM on February 12, 2008

Why not just save the recorded MP3s into a shared directory? They'll need to be renamed and otherwise tagged anyway. If you have a shared directory on the stereo PC as well, you can easily copy the files across.
posted by aeschenkarnos at 7:49 PM on February 12, 2008

Response by poster: Because sometimes it's just nice to put on a record, I can't explain it.

I thought of VLC but wasn't sure if it could handle the line-in, I'll check it out further, thanks!
posted by Cosine at 8:24 PM on February 12, 2008

If you are really determined to do this, and don't mind a little reading, you can check out PureData, with the netpd project.
It's whole purpose is to route audio over a network, but it does have a significant learning curve.
posted by AltReality at 10:45 PM on February 12, 2008

Winamp has a plugin that can be used to stream audio to a remote machine.
posted by burnmp3s at 6:04 AM on February 13, 2008

Shoutcast is another Winamp related plugin that's been around for the better part of a decade and still works great (will take a little extra configuration to set it up for analog input but should work like a charm once going...the only thing to consider with streaming audio is there will be a buffer latency of about 1-5 seconds usually)
posted by samsara at 6:47 AM on February 13, 2008