[geeks] home mp3 system suggestions

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:47:28AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>                                   These boxes would connect via fairly high
> speed serial (perhaps USB if USB can support the cable lengths needed, other
> wise likely to be something proprietary) to a central server.  The central 
> server would except requests from the buttons, dial, etc, and it would decode
> the flac files to raw audio, and toss them back over the serial link to
> each box.  These boxes would be placed in each room.
>
> I think you get the idea.  I just don't know what form of serial would 
> supply 1.4megabit over long distances (like 30 meters) affordably.

The high-speed serial you are looking for is called "ethernet" :-)

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