Simultaneous Playback on all Clients

[i0zjh02]

Hi, I was wondering if anybody has found a way to play the same music simultaneously on all clients. I have a server and 3 clients and when we have parties it would be great to be able to play a playlist in all rooms at the same time. Any ideas if this is possible (I'm using latest 7 beta)

[paulbeers]

No it is not possible with a Sage only solution. The closest you can get to it is starting everything at the same time..... It won't be exact, but pretty close.

With that said, a simple distribution amp can output to multiple tv's in the house (however it does require you to run additional cable runs).

[dinki]

I'd love to see this for watching the same tv recordings (eg football game) in multiple rooms. Right now you end up with an echo effect on the audio from the different sets.

[Thomas Wischgol]

I was just looking at the webremote via the web interface. Since you can obviously send remote commands to clients using that, it should be possible to send the same requests to all clients. For example, a little shell script could generate all the remote commands to send to all clients. But maybe there is an easier way using these SageCommands?

Thomas

[Tiki]

Something like this could probably be done, but there is really no way to guarantee synchronization. You could make them all start playing back at about the same time, but they may be off by a fraction of a second. And they should all play back at the same speed, but some might play a little bit faster than others (just like everyone's watch or clock should run at the same speed, but in the real world some run a little fast or a little slow). So over time, they would get off from one another.

This is why if you tried this, and if you were in a place where you could hear two or more extenders, it would sound "echo-y".

[paulbeers]

Originally Posted by Tiki

\And they should all play back at the same speed, but some might play a little bit faster than others (just like everyone's watch or clock should run at the same speed, but in the real world some run a little fast or a little slow). So over time, they would get off from one another.
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Exactly. The only way this could really work, is if one was using all the exact same hardware (i.e. you would have to be using all HD300's, but no HD200's or HD100's or full clients) and then Sage would still have to implement some kind of check/synchronization to verify everything is in sync at all times.... This is difficult for music let alone video!

Distribution Amp is the only way to go....

[ericscottf]

If you started them all at precisely the same time, i'd be more concerned about startup delays being different than clock drift.

Clock drift would take several hours, if not days to show up.

The nearly-random startup delay, however, would be nearly impossible to account for.
Think of everything that happens when an extender requests (or is commanded to request via web remote) a file.
It checks the server for the file, the server checks for the file, the server does a ton of checks on the file, retrieves part of it, sends it over the network... Since sage isn't set up to read the same part of a file and send it to multiple places, there would absolutely be an offset.

Perhaps, however, it wouldn't be perceivable.

Who plays music through tvs, anyway?

[GKusnick]

Originally Posted by ericscottf

Who plays music through tvs, anyway?

Apparently all those people who keep clamoring for better visualizations.

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by ericscottf

Who plays music through tvs, anyway?

People with a nice AVR that can make music sound good (Edit: Oh yeah, speakers, can't forget good speakers)

I have pretty much given up on using sage for music playback though. Foobar2000 + Event Ghost for the remote control works much better and it will handle my DVDA's which Sage won't