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Gave up on chromecast for audio recently, had too many issues with discovery of the client. Now using shairport (via the excellent hifiberry os and picoreplaye
by wjdp 6y ago
Gave up on chromecast for audio recently, had too many issues with discovery of the client.
Now using shairport (via the excellent hifiberry os and picoreplayer) on RPis and AirMusic on Android.
Seems a bit silly to be using an Apple protocol when I own zero Apple devices but works rather well. Had to give up on clientless playback (podcast app via chromecast) but this setup is significantly more reliable.
- pantalaimon 6y agoAirPlay also works well with PulseAudio as a source IIRC, so even streaming from the desktop is pretty seamless.
- wjdp 6y agoHave tried, works well. Does have a weird quirk where it'd detect two devices for each speaker, an IPv4 and v6 address. Only the v4 worked and both had the exact same name, mildly irritating. Did try and find docs on disabling discovery and hard-coding addresses but to no avail.
- thefourthchime 6y agoAirPlay is buggy sometimes well. For audio, my goto is Spotify connected to Echo devices. Spotify has a proprietary protocol for streaming to some devices that works really well.