But he could pipe it to a digital system at each location and use a line out to the non-digital system. Any old PC could fit the bill with a damnsmalllinux or other flavor and low low hardware requirements. If you want it quiet and clean, then any small, fanless, low-end set-top type boxes would do it.

Brian Kelsay

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Monty J. Harder
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:52 PM

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Beals <[email protected]> wrote:

Easy peasy linux solution:

1. Master running MPD service.
2. Slaves grabbing the streaming audio off of MPD.

Well, the problem is that "streaming audio" sounds an awful lot like a "digital system", and the original question was:

I'd like to have an option to pipe an audio stream from a cental PC to various
non-digital audio systems around the house

So I guess that's right out.