[pulseaudio-discuss] Cheap little pulse server

[David Kågedal]

Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> writes:

> OK so this is just me thinking out loud now.
>
> Has anyone priced up how cheap they could make a pulse server?
>
> I'm thinking:
>
> * Small mobo with not very powerful CPU.
> * Sound output (obviously)
> * Small amount of ram
> * Ethernet (wired and/or wireless)
> * Onboard flash or PXE capable boot
>
> With the above it would be possible to tailor a small linux install to
> boot and run pulse and have it publish itself to your network with
> zeroconf-publish and tunnel-sink.
>
> Has anyone done any research on this? What's the cheapest possible way
> of doing it. Anyone manage to rip out cheap consumer electronics gear
> and slap their own linux kernel + pulse on it?

Didn't someone here use an NSLU2?  I have one that I hope to try to
use one day.  The only problem with it was that pulseaudio didn't work
well without an FPU, but maybe that has been fixed?

An NSLU2 is $82 on Amazon. But you need an USB audio box as well.

-- 
David Kågedal