Re: [Alsa-user] How to redirect audio to a stream (e.g. as input for mpd)

2020-01-20 Thread Gordon Scott
Hi I've not followed earlier writing on this thread, so may well be out of turn here, but one option for synchronising clocks across multiple boards is to distribute low-ish stable reference and then phase-locked-loop multiply that up at each place where you want a an oscillator. It's more

Re: [Alsa-user] How to redirect audio to a stream (e.g. as input for mpd)

2020-01-19 Thread José Luis Artuch
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

Re: [Alsa-user] How to redirect audio to a stream (e.g. as input for mpd)

2020-01-19 Thread Jürgen Gluch
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

Re: [Alsa-user] How to redirect audio to a stream (e.g. as input for mpd)

2020-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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

Re: [Alsa-user] How to redirect audio to a stream (e.g. as input for mpd)

2020-01-19 Thread Jürgen Gluch
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

Re: [Alsa-user] How to redirect audio to a stream (e.g. as input for mpd)

2020-01-19 Thread frederik
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

Re: [Alsa-user] How to redirect audio to a stream (e.g. as input for mpd)

2020-01-19 Thread Bardot Jérôme
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 >