Anyone who has been to my house knows we have a computer room upstairs which houses both mine and Tamara’s PCs. I wired the set of speakers in the kitchen to my computer so that I could play music from my machine in both the computer room and the kitchen. Works pretty good. Now, if Tamara wanted to play music from her computer, she would not be able to have it play in the kitchen as well. Until today.
Doing a little digging I found this little app which runs on my computer now. It runs as a system service and works like a music server, sort of. Tamara sets Winamp to play to the output plugin bundled with the server app, and then it plays to both her speakers and the server app running on my machine. The server app on my machine then outputs the music to my speakers, which include the kitchen.
App works beautifully because if I have any remote machine with Winamp, I can install the output plugin and it immediately will output to my computer room and kitchen sound system. Works pretty damn well.
I’m always asking Tamara why she never bothers to play the music off my machine and she’s always like, “I don’t want to load up your computer, copy the music into a folder, open winamp, etc etc”. Now she doesn’t have to do any of that. She just starts Winamp and hits play and it does everything for her. Very cool.
Plus, if I wanted to, I can play music from my laptop directly to the house system now. Very nice.
So in other news, I went out last night to see Alex & Brian play and that was cool. Didn’t stay too long but I wanted to get out and after a long drive, some tunes and friends were a nice way to conclude the evening.
I also recently purchased both Throw It Away from Juke Kartel and Ladylike from Storm Large & The Balls off iTunes. I have not used iTunes before but I gotta say, no wonder it’s so damn popular. Very easy to use. Now of course I can’t play those tunes in Winamp because they are in Apple’s own format but you can burn them to CD and then re-rip them as MP3. Ya ya, I know some would claim there is quality loss but I never notice enough to care.
