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To repurpose your old stereo with a raspberry today, just run https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync on it :-)
by dfgldjglj 9y ago
To repurpose your old stereo with a raspberry today, just run https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync on it :-)
This way you can send any audio from laptop/phone to the stereo over lan.
Not sure why you would want to limit yourself to the service of a single provider. (What value does Spotify Connect add, if any?)
- rahimnathwani 9y agoShairport-sync is great for iOS clients, but I know of no way to stream the audio from my Pixel to my Pi.
- d76d673dsysuy 9y agoFor Android, or any other Linux based situation, you can just use PulseAudio for this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-phFVfZnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-phFVfZnQ
- rahimnathwani 9y agoThanks! Very interesting. But it's not a good fit for me. The source for the app used in the video is here: https://github.com/ford-prefect/pa-output-switcher https://github.com/ford-prefect/pa-output-switcher That repo links to a page about building an AOSP firmware image which uses pulseaudio: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Ports/Android/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Ports/A... I don't want to use a custom firmware image. I like the firmware provided by Google, and the monthly security updates. If I were to switch to a custom build of AOSP, I'd need to sideload Google Play Services (by downloading it from a source I trust less than I trust Google) and would also no longer get security updates.
- soneil 9y agoSpotify Connect lets any spotify client act as a remote, and lets you hand-off from one sink to another. The primary benefit for me is that a Connect client is actually connecting to spotify itself - it's less output sink and more headless client. So if I start spotify playing, and then close my laptop, it can sleep properly without interrupting my Connect device.