How can I stream music from a different machine?

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I have a Raspberry Pi connected to a sound system via the jack output. I'd like that the output of the sound card of my laptop was redirected to the Raspberry Pi.

I have read about mplayer daemon or icecast protocol but I don't really know how to make it work.

Laptop running Windows or Linux? – Jivings Jun 22 '13 at 18:05 — Jivings, Jun 22 '13 at 18:05

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '13 at 09:52

I recommend using pulseaudio for this, if you don't want to setup shairport and RAOP. The pulseaudio documentation describes how you can do this. You need to setup your debian laptop to provide a pulseaudio rtp sink. There is also a nice howto available on mpd and pulseaudio.

For some first tests, you can just run these commands through pacmd on your laptop to set up an rtp sink:

load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp
load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor
set-default-sink rtp

On the Pi, you will need to start the rtp receiver:

load-module module-rtp-recv

You can do this also via pacmd and put it later into a configuration file.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '13 at 22:57

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Raspi jack output has poor audio quality, you might be better off connecting your audio system directly to the laptop output or somehow use HDMI output if possible.

answered Jun 22 '13 at 22:57

lenik

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My laptop can't be near my audio system and I can't use HDMI output. I already tried the jack output and the quality is good enough for what I want to do. – Elie Génard Jun 23 '13 at 11:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 23 '13 at 21:57

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I think Shareport would do what you want to do - http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=41504 https://github.com/lukstei/shairport

answered Jun 23 '13 at 21:57

Shano

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I was thinking about something lighter – Elie Génard Jun 29 '13 at 09:24

How can I stream music from a different machine?

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