[pulseaudio-discuss] Multi-User Streaming Audio, Is It Possible?

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/10/6 Jason Champion <xangis at yahoo.com>
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> I'm looking for a way to have a main multi-user Linux server that is set up to stream audio to other Linux laptops in the house.  If I log into it and hit "play" on an audio app wired to Pulse I'd like to hear what I'm playing on my laptop, while if my wife logs into it and hits play she should hear what she's playing on her laptop without hearing my audio stream and without me hearing her audio.

Sure. You haven't told us how you log in to the server, but if it's
with SSH, just enable X forwarding and it should all happen
automatically.

This is explained in not too much words in:
http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/NetworkSetup

> As far as I can tell, it looks like something that might be possible with Pulse, but I'm not certain where to start or whether there is relevant documentation (can't say I know what keywords I'd be searching for exactly).
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> I'm not above writing a driver or custom code -- I know my way around C++, but if it's possible to configure Pulse to work that way without writing code that's even better.

No coding should be necessary.

Oh, and please don't use paman, as suggested by Xavier.

Maarten