I have a similar thing I do sometimes. I log on to my server from the laptop to run a music player on the server and I want the sound output on the laptop. I tried streaming directly back over the ssh connection, but I couldn't get it to not stutter. But running a temporary pulseaudio on the server with a tunnel back worked. This is probably not the solution to the original question in this thread, but I thought I'd show what I did anyway. I run a script called qlremote to run quodlibet on the server: # qlremote ssh server -R 14713:localhost:4713 ql On the server, ql is a script that sets up PA and runs quodlibet: # ql pulsetunnel export PULSE_SERVER=/tmp/pulse-david/native quodlibet pulseaudio -k pulsetunnel is a short name for the longer command pulseaudio -n \ -L "module-native-protocol-unix" \ -L "module-tunnel-sink server=localhost:14713 sink=alsa_output.pci_8086_284b_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 format=s16le channels=2 rate=44100 sink_name=tunnel.krank channel_map=front-left,front-right" \ -D This works rather well, even from over the internet. But it would be nice if there were a simpler way... -- David K?gedal