Hi, I want to setup pulseaudio for multiple rooms. I would like to ask for some suggestions on how to realize it best. I have the following requirements: * Music must play on multiple machines without any noticeable delay * Only music played from the spotify application should be streamed, no other sound. * The clients must disconnect and reconnect My current setup looks like this: * I installed pulseaudio 12.2-2 (ArchLinux) on all machines * I enabled network access via paprefs * All clients are connected through wired connection/LAN * For now I am streaming from A to B and C I am using the following command to create the combined sink: pactl load-module module-combine-sink slaves=tunnel.zebes.local.alsa_output.usb-M-AUDIO_M-Track_Hub-00.analog-stereo,tunnel.sr388-2.local.alsa_output.usb-0d8c_C-Media_USB_Headphone_Set-00.analog-stereo resample_method=src-sinc-best-quality adjust_time=1 The problems I got: * Music is sometimes out of sync. And it tends to not get back in sync and stays out of sync. I have to create a new combined sink to fix that - annoying. My highest priority is, that the music is always 100% in sync, otherwise it sounds aweful. How can I tweak the parameters to do that? * When a client disconnects (wire unplugged) it is either not rediscovered at all (need to reboot then) or under a different name (with a number increment). How can I avoid this, without using fixed ips? * After the disconnect I always have to recreate the combined sync, how can I make it auto recover from a disconnect? * How can I start an application (spotify) to only use the combined sync instead of the default system sink? I hope to find some answers here. Thanks in advance. Nico
