Can Administrator Listen to Remote Audio ?

Sorry but no. ARD cannot transfer audio to the admin computer.

You can suggest this as a requested feature through the feedback pages (there's one for ARD). But given that Apple uses the VNC protocol for screen sharing, it's unlikely to happen; VNC doesn't support audio, so Apple would have to engineer a completely new method for screen sharing. I don't believe that even Timbuktu supports audio sharing, though it could be in there and I just can't find mention on Netopia's web site.

Regards.

There is no solution to this problem, and probably will not be anytime in the foreseeable future, at least not with ARD.

I didn't say it was impossible to do. What I said was that ARD cannot do it as of today and that it is highly unlikely that Apple would add such a feature to ARD in the foreseeable future. It would require major re-engineering of the protocol ARD uses for observation and control and Apple is unlikely to see a reasonable business case for such an investment. Sorry if you don't seem to like the answers your getting here, but it's the state of things as of right now. You have the link to post feedback to Apple through which to submit your comment; perhaps at some point they'll decide that adding audio sharing will be worth the effort, though I wouldn't suggest that you expect it anytime soon.

There is a product called "Wormhole" which ( I think) transmits audio over the LAN. No idea if it is appropriate for your situation though...

Nick.

You may want to look into iChat Theatre. I am doing something similar with it and have great A/V results!!!!


Another sloppy hack would be to use Airport express and have the client machine send all audio to the airport express. You then could have the speakers near the ARD master machine.

Airfoil does not work with ARD, per se, in that ARD isn't involved other than giving you the ability to control the workstation to turn on Airfoil. It could stream the audio on one workstation to a player such as QuickTime Player on another, with or without ARD. It's not something that ARD will trigger unless you take manual control of the applicable workstation and turn Airfoil on and off from your admin station.

I'm not sure, though, that you really want thirty systems all streaming across your network, unless you have a lot of bandwidth to spare. In addition, unless Airfoil has password protection on the streams - it may; I haven't looked into it that deeply - then any of your students could be connecting to each other's streams, something that in my experience could quickly lead to chaos.