Audio streaming

I'm hoping to run a kind of "network radio" in my flat using an MP3
jukebox and some physically distributed machines. I'm assuming that
streaming audio is the way to do this. Of course, I could use really
long speaker cables, but that would be a bit dull

I've found this interesting page:

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/howto/stream

Which provides commands to open a stream and connect to it. This works
well with one connection, but a second connection restarts the track
from the beginning, so the two machines are out of sync. Is there any
way I can have successive connections "hop in" to the stream as it's
being passed out to the first machine, thus connecting as if to a
radio station?

Thanks,

Peter

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> Which provides commands to open a stream and connect to it. This works
> well with one connection, but a second connection restarts the track
> from the beginning, so the two machines are out of sync. Is there any
> way I can have successive connections "hop in" to the stream as it's
> being passed out to the first machine, thus connecting as if to a
> radio station?
>

You should use multicast, that is send audio from the server on a multicast
ip and listen only on the client station.

A multicast stream is an udp stream send to a specific range of ip (e.g.
238.0.0.1).

Have a look to http://www.videolan.org

Regards