Comment 1 for bug 1611819

Hey

I'm not sure if I understand your request correctly.

On a classic system where pulseaudio only runs in session mode as the local user this won't be possible as when the user is not logged in there's no pulseaudio to talk to (or specifically it might exist for the login screen but we cannot easily talk to it).

In an all-snap device this should be easy to achieve with pulseaudio running in system mode and arbitrary media player talking to it directly over the existing pulseaudio interface. I think that this is the preferred way to implemented network playback devices.

Please let me know if this captures the intent of your request.