I keep wanting JACK / netJACK[1] to be this. I've only actually gotten it to work once, though, and it required several hours of fiddling with configuration fi

I keep wanting JACK / netJACK[1] to be this. I've only actually gotten it to work once, though, and it required several hours of fiddling with configuration files and restarting daemons. Usually I run into a problem like...not being able to get certain applications on Windows to route audio through JACK at all. So, maybe the answer to your question is that there are too many standards for sending audio over the network, which means none of them get enough polish to really become the standard, with support on multiple platforms, requisite drivers actually working, etc. And this is why I string old-fashioned audio cables around my house. [1] https://jackaudio.org/faq/netjack.html https://jackaudio.org/faq/netjack.html