Regarding the idea of dropping libesd, pulse-esound-compat, etc from a couple of pages back: please don't. Because the version of pulseaudio used on the N900 is positively ancient, the protocol version has changed and it is no longer compatible with any recent version of pulseaudio. This currently makes module-esound-protocol-tcp the only way to use the network-transparency features of pulseaudio on the phone. See http://wiki.maemo.org/Streaming_Audio_To_N900. I'd applaud updating the pulseaudio version though, but as I understood that's impossible because of some closed modules from Nokia.