In article , Richard
Robinson wrote:

Hello. I'm baffled and looking for help.

I've been trying to play audio over my home wifi :- the backend is a
raspbery pi sending audio out via USB into a DAC, the frontend is a
laptop running Debian 8, sending to a pulseaudio "SMC9514 hub digital
stereo (IEC958) on pi@raspberypi" sink (I find pulseaudio deeply obscure
and offputting, but I haven't found much else that offers the
possibility of doing this at all). This connects, to the extent of
getting a noise out of the speakers, but the sound is useless - broken
up, stuttering, as much silence than sound - it gives the impression
that the data's just not being sent fast enough.

I can't comment in detail on the wifi beyond suspecting the obvious, that
it might be slow.

But if you want audio quality you might find you prefer using ALSA.

aplay -L

will list playout devices. I'd hope your system can then find the required
device. Usually Pulse will send out via ALSA anyway.

Jim

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