# Web Access Audio

**URL:** <https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927>\
**Category:** Community Support\
**Created:** [25 April 2024 19:41 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927 "2024-04-25T19:41:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 11\
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**Author:** ![cwade585](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@cwade585](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/cwade585)\
**Post date:** [25 April 2024 19:41 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/1 "2024-04-25T19:41:11Z")

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Audio redirect works when using the thinlinc client, but I am not able to get audio from remote server when accessing though web access. Is this possible and if so, how do I set up? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![aaron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/aaron/32/13_2.png) [@aaron](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/aaron)\
**Post date:** [25 April 2024 20:43 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/2 "2024-04-25T20:43:42Z")

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Hi @cwade585, welcome to the forum. Unfortunately the browser client does not currently support audio. This feature is being tracked as [bug 4822](https://bugzilla.cendio.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4822) on our Bugzilla.

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**Author:** ![asdestefano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@asdestefano](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/asdestefano)\
**Post date:** [19 August 2024 23:12 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/3 "2024-08-19T23:12:28Z")

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Any update on this issue?

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**Author:** ![aaron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/aaron/32/13_2.png) [@aaron](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/aaron)\
**Post date:** [19 August 2024 23:35 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/4 "2024-08-19T23:35:28Z")

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Hi @asdestefano, not yet I’m afraid. Any progress updates will be noted on the bug linked above, so please feel free to subscribe to that if you would like notifications.

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**Author:** ![cwade585](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@cwade585](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/cwade585)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2024 05:01 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/5 "2024-10-15T05:01:20Z")

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Checking back, looks like there has still not been any movement to resolve. Is this something you all are even considering to resolve?

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**Author:** ![aaron](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/aaron/32/13_2.png) [@aaron](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/aaron)\
**Post date:** [15 October 2024 19:59 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/6 "2024-10-15T19:59:15Z")

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Hi @cwade585, not that I’m aware of I’m afraid. @samuel, anything to update here?

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**Author:** ![samuel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/samuel/32/335_2.png) [@samuel](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/samuel)\
**Post date:** [16 October 2024 07:25 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/7 "2024-10-16T07:25:10Z")

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It is absolutely something we’re considering, having audio in Web Access would be great! So far, we’ve been focusing our resources on other things, however.

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**Author:** ![Seva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5e9695/32.png) [@Seva](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/Seva)\
**Post date:** [15 December 2025 18:38 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/8 "2025-12-15T18:38:56Z")

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Checking back, is there any status updates on Web Access Audio?

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**Author:** ![samuel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/samuel/32/335_2.png) [@samuel](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/samuel)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2025 13:08 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/9 "2025-12-16T13:08:55Z")

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No updates yet, I’m afraid. If you wish to influence our planning, it would be helpful to hear your use case and arguments for this?

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**Author:** ![samuel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/samuel/32/335_2.png) [@samuel](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/samuel)\
**Post date:** [8 September 2026 21:06 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/10 "2026-09-08T21:06:56Z")

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An update here; some groundwork is ongoing that will enable future audio streams (and other types of data) to flow in parallel with the video stream.

The old infrastructure in ThinLinc Web Access was not constructed for scaling up to multiple types of streams. Recently, our developer @tobias has created a promising prototype for a new architecture that solves this problem. While we still might have to wait a while longer for audio support in Web Access, things are moving in the right direction!

You have been basing your design on OpenSSH’s battle-proven multiplexing principles, right @tobias?

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**Author:** ![tobias](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/community.thinlinc.com/tobias/32/773_2.png) [@tobias](https://community.thinlinc.com/u/tobias)\
**Post date:** [9 September 2026 07:33 UTC](https://community.thinlinc.com/t/web-access-audio/927/11 "2026-09-09T07:33:45Z")

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That’s right! The implementation of the multiplexed WebSocket connection is based heavily on OpenSSH and [SSH multiplexing protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4254/#section-5.1). This provides the foundation for audio in parallel to VNC and other potential features like printing. There’s still some work to be done on the audio front though since there doesn’t seem to be an open source project out there appropriate for our use case, so we’ll likely have to build that ourselves
