I had similar problems with it workin, but xmms not being able to output (error msg). what i did was killed off ALL sound daemons, which was the artsd and esd
$ killall esd; killall artsd
Then it worked like a charm....as for the quality, tis good, no probs, could have just been the network u guys were on, who knows, i have a 100mbps personal switch for my two machines......
give it a go and also cheers to those for the help for me to get this to work [img]images/icons/wink.gif"%20border="0[/img]
Maxi. =)