---
title: >-
  Neo FreeRunner as a WiFi Soundcard
date: 2011-07-19 00:23
modified: 2011-07-19 00:23
lang: en
authors: rysiek
tags:
 - ancient
 - howto
 - mobile
status: published
pinned: false
---

For some time now I have been trying to craft a WiFi Soundcard from my [Neo FreeRunner](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_Freerunner) (running [Debian](http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner)). Still a long way to go, but after few hours of heavy fighting I **finally** have some success. Namely, I was able to (kind of) play a song on my lappy through [PulseAudio](http://www.pulseaudio.org/), via UDP/RTP, to PulseAudio on the Neo and hear *something* (very distorted, but discernible).

So, state of the art for today is:
 - basically it should [work out-of-the-box](http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/NetworkSetup);
 - the WiFi link here seems too weak/unstable for a full 44100Hz stereo;
 - for the time being it works only after joining the multicast group manually with [mcfirst](http://www.venaas.no/multicast/ssmping/);
 - sound quality is awful (due to the above problems).

But I got some sound through. Will be working on it some more in my spare time.