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In Intrepid, when I logged into my desktop over SSH and launched Rhythmbox (ssh hostname -XYC), it would play the sound out the desktop's speakers, which is what I want. Now in Jaunty, it plays the sound out my laptop's speakers, which I don't want. How do I configure the audio to come out the server's speakers when I connect to it over SSH? Has this changed again in Karmic?

Do you know of a better solution for this problem? (Sending audio from laptop to server wastes bandwidth compared to just sending the GUI data from server to laptop.)

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I had "Enable network access to local sound devices" enabled on the laptop, and when I disable this, the sound on my laptop stops. It doesn't play through on the desktop, though. – endolith Nov 10 '09 at 3:07
If I run music players in an NX windows, the audio goes to the right place. Kind of a kludge, though. – endolith Nov 10 '09 at 3:32
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I disabled "Enable network access to local sound devices" and "Make discoverable network sound devices available locally", then rebooted. Now the sound comes out the local speaker instead. I have no idea why it connects backwards like that when logged in over SSH.

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ssh -X user@server "audio-player-application"

This plays music on the server, but displays GUI on the client ;) "-X" stands for "X session forwarding". Also try "-C" to compress the data, and "-fnN": this makes ssh go background after it asks for password.

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That's what I'm using. It plays the music on the laptop. – endolith Nov 9 '09 at 19:19
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