AirConnect
Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices (by philippe44)
spotifyd
A spotify daemon (by Spotifyd)
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| AirConnect | spotifyd | |
|---|---|---|
| 39 | 43 | |
| 3,350 | 9,546 | |
| - | 0.9% | |
| 8.3 | 7.3 | |
| about 1 month ago | 2 days ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
AirConnect
Posts with mentions or reviews of AirConnect.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
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Google Home speakers to control HomeKit (Instead of Apple HomePod)
Here’s the link: Airplay to Google
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Nest Thermostat Gaining Apple HomeKit Support Starting Today via Matter
If you dont mind some tinkering AirConnect allows to use google speakers as airplay devices. I been using airconnect for a year and a half and it’s been working perfectly.
- Is there *any* speaker group casting system out there that just works?
- Ask HN: What's on Your Home Server?
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Chromecast/Media Router on iOS?
If you have a Raspberry Pi, there’s a way to bridge things with audio (in my experience, there’s a massive delay, but it works); with video you might be SOL.
- [Question] Cast from Apple Music
- Installing AirConnect on same RPi as Homebridge?
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Budget solution for Sonos compatibility with Airplay2?
I just use https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect on a raspberry pi.
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chromebook to androidTV via ethernet
If you have a device that can run this software. - GitHub - philippe44/AirConnect: Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices - https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect
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Change country to make Nest Hub activate AirPlay?
Apple Music doesn’t provide AirPlay support so you’d need a hardware bridge such as a Starling Hub or a software bridge such as AirConnect. I’ve tested the latter on Windows and it works, but it’s a bit ‘hacky’. Ideally you’d want it running on a server like a Raspberry Pi.
spotifyd
Posts with mentions or reviews of spotifyd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
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Ask HN: How is the Spotify app so bad?
For those unaware, it's possible to use alternative clients for Spotify using a 3rd party daemon.
https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
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Use Spotify made for Developers
[Unit] Description=A spotify playing daemon Documentation=https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd Wants=sound.target After=sound.target Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/spotifyd --no-daemon Restart=always RestartSec=12 [Install] WantedBy=default.target
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Update on the suggestion for Spotify to take ownership of the Flatpak
you don't need another frontend. preferred client to handle streaming for spotify-tui is spotifyd.
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Spotify users, do you recommend spotify-easyrpm or the flatpak?
If you're using a premium account, you could also try to use the browser to control and spotifyd to play: https://github.com/Spotifyd/spotifyd
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Trying to make e ink device with Linux. Kind of lost
If you want to run Spotify on a Raspberry (or PinePhone or some other device), there’s Spot, which is great, but kinda heavy and slow. There’s Spotify-qt which is faster, requires messing with Spotify developer dashboard, and UI doesn’t fit on small screens. Spotify-qt is itself based on Spotify-tui which runs in the terminal (pretty cool IMO). And a bare client/daemon is spotifyd. So you have quite a few choices there.
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I used a Raspberry Pi and Arduino to fix/upgrade an old broken Jukebox
Spotifyd runs on Linux, can also be recognized by Spotify app as an output requires premium, not sure about touch screen compatability
- As a micro services expert, I know the fix for that: did you try sticking it into a systemd daemon that restarts it automatically when it crashes?
- Spotifyd
- spotifyd: open source Spotify client running as a UNIX daemon
What are some alternatives?
When comparing AirConnect and spotifyd you can also consider the following projects:
addon-aircast - AirCast - Home Assistant Community Add-ons
raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Works™
docker-airconnect - AirConnect container for turning Chromecast into Airplay targets
librespot - Open Source Spotify client library
spotify-qt - Lightweight Spotify client using Qt
asuswrt-merlin.ng - Third party firmware for Asus routers (newer codebase)
spotify-cli - Control Spotify playback on any device through the command line.
mkchromecast - Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices
ncspot - Cross-platform ncurses Spotify client written in Rust, inspired by ncmpc and the likes.
AirConnect-Synology - Updated AirConnect packages for Synology NAS and Synology Router
spotify-tui - Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀
AirConnect vs addon-aircast
spotifyd vs raspotify
AirConnect vs docker-airconnect
spotifyd vs librespot
AirConnect vs raspotify
spotifyd vs spotify-qt
AirConnect vs asuswrt-merlin.ng
spotifyd vs spotify-cli
AirConnect vs mkchromecast
spotifyd vs ncspot
AirConnect vs AirConnect-Synology
spotifyd vs spotify-tui