Stardock is excited to announce a new application – Acoustic Bridge!  Acoustic Bridge lets PC users direct audio from one PC to the speakers of another.  Centralize the sound output from multiple PCs to a single PC. This enables you to transfer the audio notifications from any application, such as chat and mail programs or stock price alerts, from your desktop to your laptop.

Acoustic Bridge is in beta right now, and we have a special pre-order price of $7.95 which also gives you instant access to the beta.  A free 30-day trial is available also.

https://www.stardock.com/products/acousticbridge/

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on Apr 01, 2012



You might want to look into this. Icon in the taskbar clones itself endlessly in the tray. Seems to happen on the receiver only.

Windows 7 64bit Home Premium.

EDIT: Happens while receiving, turn off sending on the other machine stops the cloning.

EDIT2 : On the 'sender' machine AB turns the volume on off on off every second. Creative Xi-Fi USB there.

EDIT3: Tried another machine as sender, same result. Audio is turned on/off forever. Needless to say no sound at all at the receiver...

Bought too soon, I guess. But as this is beta I hope the issues will be handled soon.

Network is gigabit here, just for info.

I think the problem is on your receiver.  It sounds like the process is crashing out constantly hence the repeated icons.

Could you look in the event log and see if there is information on crashing processes?

Also what does it say on the about box on the receiver for your audio setup?

on Apr 02, 2012

Great little product. Bought it almost immediately.

Two things though:

1. Would you consider making a mute toggle menu option when right clicking the tray icon when on the receiving computer. Or even "better", left clicking toggles mute. Right now I have to go a few clicks through the normal speaker icon and contextually doing it through the AB-icon would be nice to have.

2. Could you please explain how and when "Allow this machine to be unmuted" works. I tried some different scenarios but didn't get hold of it.

Oh, btw, I posted a link to the shopping page on the KVR forum: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4877060#4877060

Could be very useful for home producers/musicians wanting to lie down in the sofa while working.

on Apr 02, 2012

Masarin
2. Could you please explain how and when "Allow this machine to be unmuted" works. I tried some different scenarios but didn't get hold of it.

This would be if, say, you had a computer in your bedroom, and another in the living room.  If you were streaming to the living room, but also wanted to listen to the audio in the bedroom, you could turn that option on, then unmute the bedroom computer so the music would be playing in both rooms.

on Apr 02, 2012

Rosco_P

Quoting Masarin, reply 322. Could you please explain how and when "Allow this machine to be unmuted" works. I tried some different scenarios but didn't get hold of it.

This would be if, say, you had a computer in your bedroom, and another in the living room.  If you were streaming to the living room, but also wanted to listen to the audio in the bedroom, you could turn that option on, then unmute the bedroom computer so the music would be playing in both rooms.
Ok. Thanks for the answer. I'll try another round then.

on Apr 03, 2012

No logs, sorry.

on Apr 20, 2012

Is there any intention of making it possible to stream the audio to more than one computer? (in my case; 3 other household Win7 HomePremium)

Is there any intention of making the audio source selectable?

As a sidenote: the streamed audio quality  is impressive.

on Apr 22, 2012

I'm not griping - just wanting to understand - how is this better than just loading the audio files from the master computer via homegroup/network file sharing/media player?

Is everything streamed from the master computer - not just individual applications - what is the expected scenarios where this is useful?
When I think of remote computer control I usually expect sound/visual/remote control to be needed all at once - not just audio.

Can I control what audio is playing on the master computer from the client computer? Or does everything have to be initiated on the master computer first?

Accoustic bridge sounds (giggle) interesting/useful - but I'm not understanding what need it is fulfilling.

Here's a suggestion which might be cool - open up the service to vbscript methods to send bursts of audio to and from computers - then I could build a little intercom system around my house network with DesktopX 

on Apr 22, 2012

I don't want to use my main machine to play audio.  My music is not on that machine and I don't want to use resouces on my primary.  So I run the music off the laptop and listen on the primary.

I also have a server set to use audio alerts . . and I can hear those on teh primary too.

on Apr 23, 2012

The purpose of Acoustic Bridge is to basically act as a set of remote speakers where the sending computer is probably very close to the receiving computer.

Similar to Multiplicity which reduces the need for multiple keyboards and mice on your desktop, Acoustic Bridge reduces the need for multiple speaker systems as well as allowing say a laptop with poor speakers to share the much better speakers your desktop machine might have.

You might want to watch say a video while you work and using your laptop for it rather than your main computer frees up screen space, or you might be playing a game on the laptop and want to use your Desktop PC 5.1 audio setup.

As an example of usage, as well as a main PC I have a test box and a laptop both of which might be being used for various tasks, but any sound from any of them will come out the one set of speakers.  If I need to mute sound then they all get muted at once, if I want to change the volume they all get changed at once.

on Apr 23, 2012

Thanks both Zubaz's and Neil's response have helped me to understand a bit better.

on Apr 23, 2012

New version, same problem.

 

on Apr 23, 2012

New version, same problem.

 


Unfortunately you seem to be the only person with this problem and we have no usable information on the issue which makes it pretty hard for us to track down the issue.

My gut feeling is this is linked to something about your sound setup on the receiving computer which is causing the receiver process to crash out and restart constantly but without information on the crash we are pretty much blind.

on Apr 23, 2012

Neil, I will try to investigate a bit more into this today to give You some more info.

Also I will try different computers. Ater thinking a bit more Asio4All could be a suspect for causing this trouble.

on Apr 24, 2012

Sorry, but I don't see an answer to my questions:

Is there any intention of making it possible to stream the audio to more than one computer at a time? 

Is there any intention of making the audio source selectable?

 

on Apr 24, 2012

Zboness
Sorry, but I don't see an answer to my questions:

Is there any intention of making it possible to stream the audio to more than one computer at a time? 

Is there any intention of making the audio source selectable?

 
At this time Acoustic Bridge is feature complete.  We will, of course, continue to watch the market and see what additional features are wanted and evaluate whether there is a case for adding those in.

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