[ale] Multi-Channel Whole House Audio

[Richard Bronosky]

Seems to me that RUSS is the competitor. Once you incorporate them as
a dependency you lose your ability to market your product. (Because if
you have any success what so ever, they will just come undercut you.)

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the quick responses. For a little more information, that I
> probably should have included in my original post, the current schema is to
> feed the audio outputs to a RUSS Sound distribution system that actually
> pipes the sound to the various zones around the house (if memory serves, it
> supports 5 or 6 channels). This allows selecting of which channels to play
> to which zones at will. So we will need to be able to use a remote control
> to select which sound source is played to each sound card. And needless to
> say, it needs to be pretty much idiot proof and as simple as possible.
> Currently we are using programmable remotes such as Logitech, etc. to
> trigger the necessary cascade of events to port the selected source to the
> selected zone with basically a push of only one or two buttons.
>
> Thanks again,
> Greg
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Joshua Kite <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have set up a single channel version of what you are trying to do using
>> MPD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon) with a web-front
>> end.  My preferred front-end is pitchfork, but that appears to be a dead
>> project.  I believe you could run multiple instances of MPD.  And each
>> instance of MPD can connect to multiple sound cards.  MPD can also be set up
>> to stream via Icecast.
>>
>> Please keep us updated on what you decide to do.  This is a very
>> interesting undertaking!
>>
>> Josh Kite
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So we're working on a project that we may try to sell to the home
>>> theater/whole house audio segment. Basically the intent is to put perhaps as
>>> many as 4 (or more if possible) sound cards into a single system and be able
>>> to port different audio streams out the different sound cards to different
>>> zones. The intent is to be able to have simultaneous audio playback of
>>> different sound files to different zones in a whole house audio system.
>>>
>>> Looks like it can't be done with I-tunes, but could be done with WinAmp.
>>> Before I dig deeply into Linux solutions myself, I thought I should ask the
>>> brain trust.  Any suggestions on feasibility and suggested approach under
>>> Linux?
>>>
>>> Much appreciated,
>>> Greg Clifton
>>>
>>>
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