Play music through Skype

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Douglas S. Saylor <absdoug at gmail.com>wrote:

> In the past I've been able to do this with a 3.5 plug wire plugged into
> the mic input & speaker output. I how do I do it the civilized way,
> virtually <grin> through Skype?
>
>
I don't know Skype but if it uses standard PulseAudio connections you can
install the PulseAudio Volume Control. I have also heard the GNOME
PulseAudio Volume Control provides similar features.

Once you install the volume control you can manage each audio stream and you
can connect various inputs and outputs together. For example, this is the
best way to connect an Internet radio audio stream to Audacity to record the
audio to disk.

The audio applications have to be up and running before they will appear in
the PulseAudio controls.

I am not running Ubuntu 11.04 on this netbook but I believe the audio source
and connection options do NOT appear in any of the default volume controls,
but you can replace it with your preferred PulseAudio Control.

If Skype does NOT use PulseAudio you might be able to set up something but I
will have to defer to others.
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