Re: Networked sound

[Anders Breindahl <skrewz@skrewz.dk>]

On Friday 08 July 2005 15:58, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
 >
 > http://radscan.com/nas.html
 >
 > HTH
 > H

This was helpful. I got it to work. Thanks.

A problem arose: If I want audio coming out of my laptop rather than from my 
server, I will need to alter the variable AUDIOSERVER. At first, that 
variable was only modified in .bashrc, but I wasn't satisfied: I wanted to be 
able to alter the currently used audioserver on-the-fly and not only on 
re-login.

So I went and hacked this together.
# ! /bin/bash
# This is distributed under the GNU General Public License. I am Anders 
Breindahl, and may be reached at skrewz@skrewz.dk.
if [ -f ~/scripts/determine-audioserver ]; then
        export AUDIOSERVER="$(sh ~/scripts/determine-audioserver)"
else
        export AUDIOSERVER="tcp/$(hostname):8000"
fi

if [ "$1" == "mplayer" ]; then
        $@
elif [ "$1" == "auplay" ]; then
        $@
else
        audiooss $@
fi

Now, the output of my script determine-audioserver (which quickly tests for a 
soundserver using auinfo) is assigned at program start. Therefore, if I 
launch all audio-applications through this wrapper, I may change where sound 
goes at program start, rather than at reboot. A bit more useful.

Regards, and thanks again, Anders Breindahl.