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I'm wondering if it's possible to play music files on my desktop but send the audio not to my desktop speakers but (i.e. using BlueTooth) to my smartphone's speaker?
That way I could just play all my music on my desktop and walk around with my phone and headset in the house when doing all kinds of stuff. ( mostly cleaning =/ )
Additional info:
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OS: Ubuntu and Windows 7
Phone: HTC Touch HD
Aerus
Posted 2011-03-04T15:40:55.513
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Only if your smartphone provided audio playback services (like a headset does), and as smartphones are devices that you connect headsets to, and not connect to other things as headsets I can't see any right minded smartphone manufacturer providing that facility. (It'd be only used by one person in a million, and not worth investing the time & money in implementing it).
Majenko
Posted 2011-03-04T15:40:55.513
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One possible thought.... No one has written a jack endpoint for Android have they? – Majenko – 2011-03-04T15:47:46.443
Actually, some smartphones may be used as handsets for Skype, so functionality may be there. – AndrejaKo – 2011-03-04T17:04:10.333
Mine can - by installing Skype onto the phone. Propriatory (sp?) software. The only solution I could think of would be porting something like Jack to Android which, as far as I can tell, hasn't been done. The questor specifically mentioned using BlueTooth, so the answer would still be no ;) – Majenko – 2011-03-04T18:17:38.350
Please note that my HTC doesn't run Android but Windows Mobile. I also mentioned BlueTooth since i don't really know that much about data transfer from/to smartphones. But technically, isn't this possible: redirect audio stream using some data transfer to my phone, phone receives audio stream and plays it. (of course somebody would still have to implement this) I don't know much about codecs etc. (that's what i'm going to see this year in class) but i can figure there are some bottle-necks there too... – Aerus – 2011-03-05T10:29:07.430
Technically, yes it's possible. That's why I was wondering if Jack had been ported (Jack is a network audio protocol used mainly under Linux but is available for Windows etc - http://jackaudio.org/ ) [Sorry about the Android confusion - I have a HTC phone and it runs Android]
– Majenko – 2011-03-05T10:40:59.733
I'm curious why nobody mentioned icecast?
– LaLeX – 2011-03-04T22:27:08.860I'm wondering how exactly this would apply to my question since i never heard about icecast and this is what the FAQ says: Icecast is a collection of programs and libraries for streaming audio over the Internet. Do you mean i should stream my music on their servers and use my phone to receive the music stream from their server? – Aerus – 2011-03-05T10:37:47.607