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by adar 1661 days ago
I've been looking for a simple way to be able to listen to audio from my desktop and laptop simultaneously without requiring a hardware mixer or something. I'm currently using Scream but there is a bit of latency/delay.

Farplay seems to be more for audio recording, but would Farplay be a good solution for my use case?

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This isn't a use case that we've considered, but FarPlay would work well for this. If you want to play a file on one computer and have it play at the same time on the other, you'll have to play the file into FarPlay by using something like BlackHole, Jack or LoopBack, depending on your platform.
If you are on Windows and in a single network take a look at Voicemeeter and VBAN: https://vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/banana.htm
This is a good tip but unfortunately I'm on Windows on one computer and Fedora on the other.
shouldn't VLC make audio sync easy?