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SP/DIF between comps

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kronchev

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I am going to build a very small portable box for my mini-itx board. This will house all my MP3's and media files. It has SP/DIF output (the RCA-like jack). Now, my A7N8X Deluxe has SP/DIF input. If I use a network connection + mapped drive for the visual media, thats fine. but for audio, I really want a separatly controller computer. Can I use the SP/DIF input on my A7N8X, hooked to the mini-itx, and play into the computer like that? What I mean is, will it play with the regular output of the computer, like mic in will do. I would use mic in but my friend advised me that itll sound like crap, so SP/DIF is the alternative for me.

Any help is appeciated, I'm new to this.

Also, what cable should I use to connect them? Just a regular RCA cable? Is quality an issue since its digital?
 
Yeah I suppose that would work but I don't understand why you couldn't just use the network. Maybe I misunderstood the setup.
 
so it wouldn't be using network bandwith? :confused:

edit: not that SPDIF would be faster in his situation
 
I guess I can sort of see why you would want to do this...for example if playing a game and wanting to listen to music at the same time, you won't eat up CPU time playing the music?

The short answer is, yes, what you want to do should work. It won't sound quite as good as if you played the audio from your main PC, but it'll be darn close.

Unless you're planning on putting the machines more than about 20 feet away from each other, the cable you use won't matter a bit. Just standard RCA will do fine.
 
I used to do this kind of thing when I had my lappy set up as my mp3 player, but I just used line-out to line-in. The audio quality was fine.

It was handy, cos you could control winamp (jumping to specific songs etc) without having to alt-tab out of games.
 
Originally posted by jgabby
I guess I can sort of see why you would want to do this...for example if playing a game and wanting to listen to music at the same time, you won't eat up CPU time playing the music?

The short answer is, yes, what you want to do should work. It won't sound quite as good as if you played the audio from your main PC, but it'll be darn close.

Unless you're planning on putting the machines more than about 20 feet away from each other, the cable you use won't matter a bit. Just standard RCA will do fine.
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yeh exactly. i want to be able to completly see my playlist, and control it, as well as have visualizations, on a differnet computer. plus playing stuff over the network SUCKS IMO, ive tried it and I dont like it. i do have winamp set up with hotkeys but i cant necessarily navigate as easily as just browsing my playlist on a computer.

right now I have to figure out how to get a damn SPDIF bracket anyway. damn A7N8X didnt come with it. I might just buy a RCA jack and wire it myself since I have the pinouts (all of two pins) and Im making a custom case anyway
 
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