<story><title>Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows</title><url>https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>So what do you use this for? Playing audio back in a large room like a restaurant?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>magicalhippo</author><text>Personally I&amp;#x27;ve used PulseAudio to send audio over the network from my Linux NUC to my Windows Desktop, so I could watch videos and similar on it without using noisy analog audio or get a new soundcard with optical input. This seems like it could fill a similar role except in reverse.&lt;p&gt;I have separate monitors but use Symless Synergy to share the mouse and keyboard.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scream – virtual network sound card for Windows</title><url>https://github.com/duncanthrax/scream</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zitterbewegung</author><text>So what do you use this for? Playing audio back in a large room like a restaurant?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jaruzel</author><text>With this you can cheaply replicate a Sonos style whole home networked music system, by having the recievers  be something like some raspberry pi zeros wired up to some amplified speakers.&lt;p&gt;Ive been wary of stuff like Sonos due to the cost and the proprietary nature of the tech, but this Scream driver seems to be a nice simple alternative.</text></comment>