Snapcast: [not an issue] Nice stuff

Created on 17 Jan 2016 · 10Comments · Source: badaix/snapcast

Hey Just wanted to say awesome stuff! Was searching for a while to try and find something to close the gap on mopidy and multi-room playback. Will be awesome once you get "zones" working, wont have to fork out hundreds for sonos!

Anyway, this was pretty easy to install (probably should note that I had to upgrade my rpi's to Jessie, as the wheezy repo was too far behind on some of the dependancies) once that was done setup was super easy and playback started immediately!

Nice stuff

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mrwhale

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Nice!
I got snapclient on a modded (8mb flash memory) TP-Link TL-WR703N.
It's working right out of the box with openwrt and the snapclient.ipk file and Sabre USB DAC. :)
What to say more :)
Awesome!
Thank's @badaix

cosmo6110 on 8 May 2016

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Thanks, glad you like it :grinning:

badaix on 18 Jan 2016

+1 on this. I've been looking for a way to do multi room audio forever. So happy to see this. I'll start testing shortly.

linuxguy123 on 19 Jan 2016

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just tested with mopidy and seems to work perfectly!
more testing to come, but thanks for your awesome work!

obliquid on 16 Feb 2016

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Hi!
I running moode and mopidy on same device.
Disabled mpc for mopidy, change the RW on /tmp/snapfifio so both prog can write to the fifo.
Working great. :)
Spotify from mopidy and radio and NAS streams from moode.
If you want to use mplayer.
mplayer http://wms-15.streamsrus.com:11630 -novideo -channels 2 -srate 48000 -af format=s16le -ao pcm:file=/tmp/snapfifo

Thank's
keep up your good working!

cosmo6110 on 19 Mar 2016

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Adding to this as I don't know where else to post it, I've written a blog post on using Snapcast and Mopidy to do multi-room home audio:

https://hackerdads.wordpress.com/2016/05/07/multi-room-audio-with-open-source-software-and-cheap-hardware/

Thanks for all the hard work that's gone into this so far @badaix :)

proffalken on 7 May 2016

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cosmo6110 on 8 May 2016

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Can you please add the mplayer command line from @cosmo6110 to the Readme.md? It works and is very easy to do (especially in comparison with the mentioned MPD, ALSA etc. setups).

To utilize my Windows computer's speakers at a house party, I just boot a Xubuntu from a live USB. No need to hurry Windows support ;-)

And a big thank you for doing this project!

ConnyOnny on 26 Jul 2016

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Added cosmo's mplayer command line: d3d3f2179c898292acdd3ff93d71b1393d91de65

badaix on 26 Jul 2016

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How does this compare to Audinate Dante? @badaix

zumpchke on 23 Aug 2016

@VanushVaswani it's a fully software based solution, not a specific hardware + software solution. Also, and just as importantly, it's fully free and open source.

@badaix Let's close this issue, to start cleaning up :)