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Title: Computer > Stereo ?
Post by: Colin Liston on March 23, 2005, 09:41:40 AM

Does anyone use the "remote desktop" feature in windows to run a computer with soundcard that is hooked directly to your stereo?

With the "remote desktop" I can control the computer/stereo from the laptop wirelessly any where in the house, although I don't have speakers in every room.

Just a thought

colin

Title: Re: Computer > Stereo ?
Post by: pfife on March 23, 2005, 09:58:46 AM

I don't see why you couldn't.  I've used Remote Desktop in XP a lot, and its pretty good, actually.  The only issue is that you have to have XP Pro to do the actual controlling - XP Home only allows connections (I believe... either that or vice versa)

Title: Re: Computer > Stereo ?
Post by: BobW on March 23, 2005, 05:54:52 PM

Seis de Mayo is currently playing on iTunes on the remote box from my local CD which is mapped to it.
How cool is that ?

Remote desktop is a gas, I like it much better than TS, Nops, Daimwar, BNC, PCRemote, and newtopier.
Usually much less latency.

Title: Re: Computer > Stereo ?
Post by: Diggin on March 23, 2005, 06:35:04 PM

if you have xp home, grab TightVNC or any VNC program.  I Remote Desktop or VNC everyday at work.  Half the time I use them just to stream music from my home computer on my work computer since flac files are just small enough for my bandwidth at home to upload.