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
On 18/01/2020 21:53, Jürgen Gluch wrote:
> 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
>
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
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 21:53:23 +0100, Jürgen Gluch wrote:
>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
I don't know about spotify or mpd, so I'm not sure if I'm understanding the
question correctly, but with Pulseaudio you can monitor output sinks, for
example:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#Monitor_specific_output
Hi Frederik,
> I'm no expert, but I would avoid any of the ALSA solutions. If you
> are sending one stream to multiple audio cards, the crystals are
> going to be slightly different (e.g. 48.033 kHz vs 48 kHz), so you
> need a system which is able to resample to keep these in sync. ALSA
> doesn't
