A few months ago I wrote an article explaining how to remove and uninstall the Bonjour service that is installed together with Itunes. I don't know then someone has removed it, I personally don't use ITunes so I don't even have Bonjour but I needed to use it and I had to reinstall it.
This Bonjour service can also be installed without Itunes (Download Bonjour for Windows) and is used to make audio heard, which is played by a computer, on another computer that is on the same home network or company LAN .
In fact, if you have two PCs at home connected to the Internet from two different rooms, 99% of these computers can be seen between them and go out on the Internet with the same IP.
In this regard, you can read a brief guide to solving network problems between PCs in a LAN (local area network).
A famous program to share the sound of the loudspeakers and hear the sound in multiple computers on the network so that the sound of one is also heard by the others, it is AirFoil but there is also another program, completely free.
SpeakerShare is a free program for Windows and Mac computers that can be used to share the sound of a pc's speakers on the local network .
It is certainly not too common but it can be a useful solution if you have two computers, one with a good level audio system, maybe a 5.1 and the other without speakers.
To listen to music from the computer without speakers, you can install SpeakerShare together with Bonjuor and listen to the sound from the PC with the loudspeakers.
The program combines the client and server version in a single interface and requires that the Apple Bonjour service be running in the background.
As mentioned, Bonjour is installed with iTunes, but it can also be installed separately if necessary.
On the PC that must receive the sound to reproduce the audio of the other, you must go to the "Share" tab and select the used sound card (presumably it will be only one choice so you can leave it as it is).
On the computer that shares the audio because it has no stereo speakers to hear it, you have to press on the "Use" tab and, below, choose the computer that should appear below, where Client is written.
If the computers were already seen before this operation, everything should be fine and, with SpeakerShare (and bonjour) active on both computers, the sound of one should be heard with the speakers from the other pc.
On the Readme file that you download together with the program there are further instructions in English to resolve any configuration problems.
The program is very simple so if something is wrong, it is probably the fault of the general network settings on one of the two PCs.
If you have problems we can try to solve them together so, in case of success, leave a comment.
Finally, note that the sound passes from one computer to another with a delay of one second and that a server can support multiple clients, therefore, the audio of a PC can be heard on multiple computers simultaneously.
Download SpeakerShare for Windows and Mac .
In another post, how to use Airplay on Windows and listen to iPhone music on PC speakers.
