On Sat, 2021-11-06 at 14:50 -0700, chris hermansen wrote:

To allow remote users to use ALSA, you need to add those users to the audio group, however this is not recommended by default (see note below).

Thanks Chris. For anyone else having a similar problem, adding myself to the audio group, like so, fixed the problem:

$ sudo usermod -a -G audio kip