Play audacity over network How to play Audacity over network using pulseaudio sound server If you use pulse-audio as sound server, you can use module-native-protocol-tcp to accept tcp connection from your remote machine. In the following example, I use an ssh tunnel to forward the audio request from remote machine to the local one. On the local machine, do something like: $ pactl load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1 $ ssh -XC -R 9999:127.0.0.1:4713 pvdm@192.168.1.1 then on remote machine you can use: $ paplay -s 127.0.0.1:9999 soundfile.wav $ padsp -s 127.0.0.1:9999 audacity ADDED I discovered that auth-ip-acl does not accept localhost as a valid parameter, you have to use 127.0.0.1 (or whatever your machine uses localhost address).