Is there a way to play music from a server through the network and have two computers as speakers?

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Published on 2011-02-25T15:02:04Z Indexed on 2011/02/25 23:33 UTC
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Hi,

I have a server (Ubuntu 8.04 server) that I want to use as a music player. I want my laptop Ubuntu 10.04 to be one speaker and my mac pro (mac os x 10.6) to be the other.

Okay software is found and setup is done, (thanks for the pictures @JorgeCastro.)

all of the softwares in both computers and server is setup how should I continue? http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FirstSteps

well if the sound is bad, is there a solution like compressing the sound files before sending them to the speaker? then you could improve sound quality and lower the data stream.

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