A backup from (http://westmarch.j5int.com/2014/04/streaming-audio-linux-to-raspbmc/)
Posted on April 12, 2014 by matth
Early in 2014, I finally got around to turning my Raspberry Pi in to a little XMBC media centre by installing Raspbmc. Which was fun. And also easy. Perhaps a little too easy: I’m a bit of a nerd, so it didn’t take long to get bored of just playing regular type media off the external hard drive. Part of the reason I have a Raspberry Pi, is for the fun of thinking of what relatively useless thing I might potentially do with it next, and then spending (wasting?) many hours trying to do it. So, as I was trying to decide what to do next, I considered the fact that I fairly often like to play music on my PC while I’m working. And my sound system is now hooked up to the Raspberry Pi. So it would be most convenient if I could just deliver the sound across my network for Raspbmc to play for me. I was running Ubuntu 13.10 – Saucy Salamander – at the tim