A while back I moved my stereo to the other side of the room. It got to far away to connect my desktop to my stereo.

I do have my old mac-mini connected to my stereo, so I decided see if I could use pulse to have the audio from my desktop on my stereo.

For anybody else wanted to try it:

On the server:

1. First make pulseaudio allow remote connections: (this is also needed to have mpd work when running as different user as pulseaudio.

2. in /etc/pulse/default.pa: load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1

Now MPD should work, but that was not the goal.

Lets test it by trying playing a movie on the desktop machine:

PULSE_SERVER=  mplayer -ao pulse dvd://1

Now if you want to have all audio moved to the “remove pulse server” edit /etc/pulse/client.conf and set  default-server =

Now set in System->Preferences->Sound  the music&video output to pulse audio (you might need to install the right gstreamer-pulse output first.)