Dear Ralf,
thanks for your opinion. I also looked to the different scenarios for the
sound setup in my home and I agree that there are different approaches. IMO
all have pro/cons, there is no gold standard.
You propose a decentralized system with gadgets distributed in every room.
The individual
Dear Frederick, dear Jerome,
Thank you for the valuable input. It contained the right buzz words to
enable me to find the solution in the internet [see 1].
Indeed, pulsaudio provides a usable sink and is already running. I did not
install/modify anything in my system.
with the command:
pacmd
I want to redirect audio within alsa to stream, so that another software
can use it other output.
Let me explain my setup. My multiroom audio for 4 rooms runs on my sever
and the audio is hard wired to 4 stereo amplifiers. The server (on Xubuntu
19.04) has two soundcards (HDMI as hw0,0 and a 7.1
