How to Transfer Audio Output from Mac OS X to Ubuntu via a Network?

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Is it possible to somehow tap in to sound output and send it via network to another machine. Formats probably are incompatible, but I would appreciate even on some information on how to tap in to audio on Mac OS X!

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JtR
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I was working on a good solution to this earlier this year, but haven't gotten the best way.

The first piece you will likely need is Soundflower. This will let you take the digital-out of your Mac, and loop it to a new digital-in source.

The piece I'm missing is the best way to broadcast a digital input to another machine.

It is probably possible to do this via ESounD,PulseAudio, or Jack, but I am not familiar with implementations of those, and this hasn't been my highest priority.

Another route I was considering was using VLC, to somehow source the Soundflower as though it were line-in or mic input, and publish an audio stream, then connect to this stream from Ubuntu, i.e. athttp://192.168.0.2:8000.

However you arrive at it, I hope that this answer has helped you fit one piece of this puzzle.

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	Thanks for the link to Soundflower ... See, now I'm thinking of some legitimate uses (for myself) for this; at least, for Soundflower. Too bad I'm not a Mac. Must consult the great Oracle for something similar for Winders or Linux. – Adrien Aug 19 '09 at 19:40
	PulseAudio supports linux and native win32 and you can probably configure it work like this. I can't find mac port of PulseAudio, but just older version called esound, which might work with PulseAudio. Thank you mpbloch! – JtR Aug 20 '09 at 6:03