I am not sure if there is a practical way to do this; I tried some googling, but the signal-to-noise ratio was pretty bad, so I thought I'd try here.
At home, I have an old Linux laptop that serves me as a git / utility server. It has a very small drive, and very modest specs.
The computer I use most is a Macbook Pro, where I have most of my music. However, the speakers on it are not great. I have other, much better speakers at home that I can connect to it; however, the cables are annoying.
So, what I thought was, I could connect the speakers to the Linux laptop (which I don't move, so the cables are fine), and somehow play the music from the Mac in iTunes on the server, and thus on the good speakers. So I would say click play on a song on the Mac, and automatically the Mac would stream the song to the Linux laptop which would play it on the good speakers.
Is there a software that could do this?
Initially, I thought I'd simply put my music collection on the Linux server, run mpd
on it, and play my music by SSH
ing into the server and using something like ncmpc
. However, the hard-drive of the Linux laptop is much too small for all my music, so that wouldn't really work.