bluez VS owntone-server

Upon going on the website BlueZ there is a lot of details about the versions, downloading the thing, releases, features, and a FAQ page with very little info.

And bluez for the Bluetooth part

You can use command sudo apt install bluez to install bluez, a Bluetooth Linux stack, and then install Blueman, a GUI Bluetooth manager

Option 3: raise a PR on the bluez people at http://www.bluez.org/ to include such a timeout into the driver (or contribute code to do it)

I would strongly appreciate a model with Linux user testimony to it playing nice with BlueZ/Pipewire - although it feels as if more gadgets have worked OOTB in the past half-decade, I'm loathe to dump $100+ on hardware which might not even connect.

Well it's undoubtedly using http://www.bluez.org/ but this is just how all linux systems work (because they pretty much all use bluez), idk what this guy is talking about a driver for

the command you used is for a source-based install, not a pip-based install. did you also try installing via pip? python -m pip install pybluez also see http://www.bluez.org/

There are a few dockers that seem to be able to do what you want. Some can stream local audio to airplay devices what might work with a bit of scripting for your white noise and others might work as a Chromecast to Airplay bridge https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect https://github.com/1activegeek/docker-airconnect

Check out OwnTone former daap, https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server it simply browses the dir, can play playlists but will do just folder(s) play too. As a bonus it can airplay/cast.

The thread here [Pi forum] is long (70+ pages so far) and the documentation is here [Github]

A possible solution, especially if you have something like a Raspberry Pi: Owntone

Check it out; https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server

Check out Owntone, it supports MPD. https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/

I set this up after stumbling on it - https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server and it solves a lot of my issues.