Network Transparent Audio with X (was Re: Rmoving the sound modules)

[Tim Wunder]

On 7/12/2002 10:09 AM, someone claiming to be Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> sorry to jump on this topic so quickly to my own ends, but some the
> attention of the Sound gurus has been achieved, I would like to as a
> potentially simple and potentially complex question:
> 
> How does one use Sound across the network...  
> 
> eg.  laptop in livingroom, workhorse in office.  I want to watch some TV
> with the family while editing some audio.  Simple!  Right? SSH to the
> workhorse, start up Audacity, and I edit away.  Works great!  Until I
> actually want to record or play back the audio (somewhat important in
> audio editing :)   Suddenly I'm waking up the baby because the Workhorse
> is playing the audio right next to her bedroom.
> 
> Is there something that I can point Audacity to in order to shim X in
> between it and the audio device?  It is currently using /dev/dsp for
> reads/writes.  Should this be set to something else?  Or am I stuck either
> using the workhorse or copying a couple gigs of data back and forth on
> whatever system I want to use?
> 
> Thx.

I seem to remember a sound daemon that was supposed to do this... what was it...
Oh Yeah, esound:
http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html
But it doesn't appear to be under development anymore (last update to the web page was in 2000.)

Hmmm, these are interesting (from a google search on 'sound daemon'):
http://asd.sourceforge.net/
But nothing's happened with that for over a year

http://gstreamer.net/
Looks like it's being actively developed, but...