Re: playing audio cds via a networked drive!

try videolan, (not tried myself) but it supposedly allows streaming of all sorts
of media files over a network

Waq

Rob Morley wrote:

> In article <kwVRa.1845$(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
> > hi
> >
> > I have a laptop that I have just networked to my xp machine and i'd like to
> > be able to use the cd drive on the main unit to play audio cds, however i
> > can only ever use the drive to look at files and not play music!
> >
> > is there any way to do this?
> >
> I guess you mean how can you play music on your laptop when the CD is in
> the desktop CD drive. The easiest way I can think of is to rip the CD
> to MP3, put the MP3s on a networked drive and play them on the laptop.
> Presumably you wouldn't need to control the ripping remotely, as you
> have to go to the desktop machine to load the CD anyway, so just stick
> the CD in, start the ripper and go back to your laptop - by the time you
> get there it might even have finished the first track.
>
> If you listen to a lot of music on your computer you might want to rip a
> load of MP3s (or Ogg, WMA, whatever) and burn them to CD, or just keep
> them on the hard drive - many hours of listening without having to
> change the disc, and lets face it, you won't be too fussy about quality
> if you're listening on a laptop :-)