Having fun with audio!?!
Like to use my server as a stereo so to speak. Either can play sound files directly or can play music from the internet! For some reason the sound was not working on my system, so I decided to remove the pulse stuff and reinstall the alsa setup. This is the only method that I have found that works flawlessly: $ sudo killall pulseaudio $ sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio \ libpulse-browse0 paman pavumeter pavucontrol $ sudo apt-get purge $ sudo mv /etc/asound.conf /etc/asound.conf-bak $ rm ~/.pulse-cookie $ rm -r ~/.pulse Reboot. Then install: $ sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss \ alsamixergui libalsaplayer0 Everything now works fine! In fact, sound is better than it ever has been. Speakers seem to gently boom out the sound. Now you will want to install mplayer. Most everyone knows how to use mplayer, if not use $ sudo apt-get install mplay...