[Voyage-linux] Is there a way to redirect audio over the network to voyage mpd?

Mark Schlegel (spam-protected)
Sun Nov 6 09:17:29 HKT 2011


I have the normal usage mode of Voyage MPD working fine:

music server -> nfs ->{lan network}-> voyage/alix -> usb dac ->
                                                   preamp/speakers

But frequently I'm doing something on my desktop like playing a youtube 
video with Firefox and I think "it would be really nice to direct this 
audio to the nice speakers the alix uses" (instead of using my lower 
quality desktop speakers)

that is:

desktop/firefox -> {lan network}-> alix/voyage -> usb dac -> speakers


Usually with Fedora, which I'm using, you'd do that with Pulseaudio.
In fact when I was first trying this stuff out I was running the mpd 
process on my desktop locally and I could play firefox and other sources 
into the DAC by plugging the usb dac right into my desktop. As
diagrammed here as 'plain mode':

plain audio:
desktop (firefox) -> usb dac -> speakers

testing mpd mode:
desktop (mpd + gnome music player) -> usb dac -> speakers

In that first use case, the dac showed as a "sink" in the pulseaudio 
control. You'd simply select it and you could play videos or whatever 
into the DAC and hear it.

But I'm not sure how you'd do this with remote alix pc running Voyage 
MPD.  Is this possible?




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