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Stream audio over ssh

Terminal - Stream audio over ssh
sox Klaxon.mp3 -t wav - |ssh thelab@company.com paplay
2010-07-29 23:23:39
User: camocrazed
Functions: ssh
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Stream audio over ssh

This will allow you to convert an audio file to wav format, and send it via ssh to a player on the other computer, which will open and play it there. Of course, substitute your information for the sound file and remote address

You do not have to use paplay on the remote end, as it is a PulseAudio thing. If the remote end uses ALSA, you should use aplay instead. If it uses OSS, you should berate them about having a lousy sound system. Also, you're not limited to transmitting encoded as wav either, it's just that AFAIK, most systems don't come with mp3 codecs, but will play wav files fine.

If you know SoX is installed on the remote end and has mp3 codecs, you can use the following instead:

cat Klaxon.mp3 |ssh thelab@company.com play -t mp3 -

this will transmit as mp3. Again, use your specific information. if you're not playing mp3s, use another type with the -t option

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Alternatives

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Terminal - Alternatives
ssh [user]@[address] "mpg321 -" < [file].mp3
2010-07-30 00:23:13
User: leovailati
Functions: ssh
Tags: ssh pulseaudio alsa mpg321
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Stream audio over ssh

This one doesn't need to convert to wav.

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ssh [user]@[host] "ogg123 -" < [podcast].ogg
2010-07-30 22:10:22
User: denzuko
Functions: ssh
Tags: ssh ogg pulseaudio alsa mpg321
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Stream audio over ssh ogg version

Stream OGG vorbis over ssh.

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