= Salsa =

[wiki:Salsa] is a tiny package for playing sound on one computer, and hearing it on another. I use it in my livingroom to play music on my wireless laptop, and hear it through my home stereo. If you have a media center PC, you may find [wiki:Salsa] handy.

||[[Image(http://jdolan.dyndns.org/jaydolan/images/salsa.png)]]||[wiki:Salsa] works by directing [http://alsa-project.org ALSA] to dump [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCM PCM] data to a FIFO (named pipe).  The {{{salsad}}} daemon forwards any data written to the FIFO to a remote host over a weakly encrypted [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh ssh] tunnel.  In this way, [wiki:Salsa] is able to work with any existing audio application.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh ssh] is used so that remote authentication may be automated via [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsa RSA] keys.  The {{{aplay}}} player is invoked on the remote host to play the PCM stream, and there you have it.||

The latest version is 0.2.  It may be downloaded [/jaydolan/files/salsa-0.2.tar.bz2 here].  The {{{README}}} may be viewed [/jaydolan/files/salsa-README here].

Subversion: svn://jdolan.dyndns.org/salsa