# Stream laptop output to musicbox

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/stream-laptop-output-to-musicbox/514>\
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)\
**Created:** [January 6, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/stream-laptop-output-to-musicbox/514 "2015-01-06T14:13:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![jochen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jochen/32/473_2.png) [@jochen](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jochen)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 11:59am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/stream-laptop-output-to-musicbox/514/4 "2015-01-07T11:59:03Z")

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Hi,

another way would be to use SongCast. With that you can apparently also stream your sound output to a SongCast receiver. The receiver part needs to be added to the musicbox system, It is basically an extension to the upmpdcli component that is included in musicbox already.

I wanted to try it out but could not get it to work with the given documentation:

> [@How to get SongCast working](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/how-to-get-songcast-working/502/1):
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> Hi, in version 0.9.0 of the upmpdcli (which is currently used by musicbox for upnp streaming) support for SongCast was added. With Songcast, the whole sound output from a PC can be streamed to a songcast receiver. I’ve tried to get it to work based on the description on the upmpdcli website, but I did not get it to work. I followed the description on [http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/sc2mpd.html](http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/sc2mpd.html) and was able to compile the binary, but in the SongCast program on my PC the musicbox was no…

Jochen

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