Pulseaudio.md

Setup PulseAudio

Note, this is optional!

Now that for these instructions are setting up PulseAudio at the system level for a dedicated audio player.

Install PulseAudio

sudo apt install pulseaudio pulsemixer pulseaudio-utils ubuntu-sounds
sudo systemctl --global disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket

Setup Pulse system wide

Create systemd file /etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio-system.service

[Unit]
Description=PulseAudio Daemon

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
PrivateTmp=true
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --realtime --disallow-exit --no-cpu-limit 

Allow anonymous connections - REALLY BAD IF NET ACCESS IS ALLOWED!

sudo nano /etc/pulse/system.pa 
Find: module-native-protocol-unix/load-module 
Change to: module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1

Make sure root has access to pulse

sudo usermod -aG pulse-access root
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable pulseaudio-system
sudo systemctl start pulseaudio-system