Is full wireless pc audio possible?

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Hi all,
I've a couple of questions that I've never been able to find an answer to that I was hoping someone could help with.

I basically want wireless pc audio.
By that I mean every sound that the pc makes from sources such as flacs, mp3's, avi video clips, dvd's, internet radio, and even the odd pc game.

Is it possible?

I currently have the pc motherboards audio out directly wired into an amplifier via the standard phono out. Not ideal.

The itunes setup is nice but useless as its format specific and is only for its own media. Other devices seem to run off their own predetermined media also.

Ideally I'd like to find a few price groups from bargain basement up and a staggered upgrade path - but I'd settle for anything that works.

A secondary question is one I've been unable to answer for about 10 years. I've had this setup of 3 different pcs, 3 different operating systems, connected to 2 different amplifiers via 2 different phono cables attached to the motherboard. In every case, after 6 months to a year, the audio in the right channel becomes distorted and then just cuts out never to return.
Its definitely the motherboards audio connection that fails. But why does it keep failing via this setup?

And yes - that does mean that I've lived without the right channel on pc audio for most of the last 10 years! Please help me upgrade to stereo!

Thanks!

 

[professorhat]

Airport Express with Airfoil. This will transmit any audio from your PC to the AE unit which can then be connected direct to your stereo amp via a 3.5mm to RCA phono lead, or via optical to an external DAC and then to the amp.

 

[Lee H]

Line in to a Sonos should do it too - if you really want to hear all those windows error messages around the house

 

[Anonymous]

@ professorhat

Thanks.
I was so happy to hear of a solution until I read on rogue amoebas website that there is an inherent and approximate 2 second delay in streaming media which leads to out of sync sound and video.

For macs only they have made a media player to circumvent this, but it will only work for local media files - not dvd's, web videos, or gaming.

There is no partial work around at all for pc's - which is what I have.

Thanks anyway.

@Lee H

Thanks.
I'm looking but as yet am to find confirmation on their website that sonos do exactly what I wish. I'll keep looking.