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Multi room speaker system raspberry pi.
Submitted by andy jenkinson on fri 01 16 2015 11 36.
Streaming music in any room is definitely a luxury but it doesn 39 t have to be an expensive one.
Most of the products to buy are a significant cost per room for me considering i all ready have the speakers amplifiers in place.
For a long time i have been trying to figure out what i need for a multi room music set up.
Build your own multi room audio system with bluetooth airplay and spotify using raspberry pis last updated.
Multi room audio with raspberry pi.
Later i used 4 squeezeboxes and 3 raspberry pis with squeezeplug installed since logitech decided to discontinue its squeezebox system.
Here s how i did it.
Spurred on by my children.
Raspberry pi has changed all that and now the only qualification for such a multi room audio system is the ability to follow step by step instructions and maybe 100 per room for good sound through existing loudspeakers and under 30 if you have an old set of computer speakers lying around and are really not fussed about quality.
The constantly running pc was as noisy as a gas turbine.
I tried to show my work so hopefully people can follow along i m no raspberry pi linux expert myself.
You will be able to do the following.
In this article i will explain how to set up a multi room audio streaming system based on apple idevices cheap raspberry pi players and any computer either linux windows or mac.
Snapcast is an open source project that streams audio over network so it can be played synchronously like sonos.
7th july 2020 turn your spare raspberry pis and speakers into a fleet of synchronized multi room audio players.
Raspberry pi multi room music player.