Thread: Why is pulseaudio crippled on the n900?
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thomasjfox is offline thomasjfox
2012-01-11 , 20:34
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I wanted to use my second N900 as a mpd streaming client in the kitchen.

Well, I faced the same issues as described before, looks like the native pulseaudio network protocol on maemo 5 and f.e. Fedora 16 is not compatible. Luckily there's another network sound protocol: esd.

Here's how it works:

On the n900:
Code:
- Install the pulseaudio-module-extra package.
- Edit /etc/pulse/system.pa and add these lines:

.ifexists module-esound-protocol-tcp.so
    load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp port=6000 auth-cookie-enabled=0 auth-anonymous=1 sink=1
.endif

- Restart pulseaudio/phone
On the mpd side, use this in the mpd.conf file:
Code:
audio_output {
    type "ao"
    driver "esd"
    options "host=devel-n900:6000"
    name "esd"
}
More help on mpd and pulseaudio can be found here: http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/PulseAudio
 

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