Looking for a Gstreamer Pipeline for Remote Audio with Rhythmbox

Dear Lazyweb,

i'm looking for a gstreamer custom pipeline for configuring Rhythmbox so that I can execute it remotely via X and deliver audio to the local machine.

Can you help me out?

In exchange to your help I offer:

• recipe for obtaining remote audio playing with XMMS using EsounD:

  1. on the local machine run esd as follows

     $ esd -nobeeps -tcp -public
     
     

  2. on the remote machine run XMMS, enter the preferences (CTRL-P), "Audio I/O Plugins" tab, choose "eSound Output Plugin" as "Output Plugin", click "Configure" and enter the address of the local machine, TCP port is 16001

• recipe for playing an ogg/mp3/whatever file located on the remote machine via network using Gstreamer pipelines, postponing the audio decoding on the local machine so that network usage is minimized:

  1. on both local and remote machines install the gstreamer-tools package

  2. on the local machine run

     $ gst-launch tcpserversrc host=0.0.0.0 port=3000 ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! alsasink
     
     

  3. on the remote machine run

     $ gst-launch filesrc location=yourfile.mp3 ! tcpclientsink host=localmachine port=3000
     
     

Now, would you be so kind in giving me back another pipeline?

PS oh, yes, a way to configure the remote Rhytmbox so that the local esd server is used would be fine too ...

Update: thanks to the tip from Marius I found the solution: I run esd on the local machine as per the XMMS recipe and then I run rhythmbox as follows: ESPEAKER=localmachin rhythmbox