yianni
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My friends bar has a touch tunes jukebox and it is hooked up to a bose system via ethernet, anyone know if you can hook up a pc through the ethernet to get sound output
If I understand your question correctly, you're asking if you can use the ethernet port on your computer as a sound signal out?
Theoretically, yes. Ethernet is just a specification. If you get the proper software and receiving hardware (where you run the signal from the computer to), it should be possible. I'm not sure of any products in the mainstream that do this. Might need to find a niche product maker.
I think usb is much easier and more readily available.
This bose systems only input is the ethernet, the jukebox is hooked up to it using ethernet,i was wondering If anyone has seen such thing and if it's possible to hook up a pc to output sound to the bose system through the ethernet
I don't see why not if you get software capable of it. The Logitech line of Squeezebox and Transporter does this, using ethernet or Wi-Fi, and then decodes the raw data into S/PDIF format which can then be output to a standalone DAC or output to its own internal DAC.
this bose system is a box mounted on the wall ii think it has a built in dac of some sort that uses the ethernet as input, im hoping that win7 will recognize it as a dac but if it doesnt have drivers for it which is most likely the case hen chances of finding drivers for it might be pretty slim
Windows will not automatically recognize it as a DAC through ethernet. It doesn't work that way, as it's not like USB.