balena-sound VS balena-rpiplay

Have a look at the Balena Sound project on Github here and other possible options would be Volumino or RuneAudio - they are not up to professional multi-room sound systems but may give you some of the functionality you want.

So I wrote a headless plexamp plugin for the Balena Sound project. Its currently in the pull request phase right now but it would be cool to have people test.

It actually is. You can use balena sound as a base image and then install plexamp on top: https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound

Try this, it is made for raspberry pi but you might be able to run it on your laptop. https://sound.balenalabs.io/

Or you can tey something like this https://sound.balenalabs.io

First 10 devices on balena are free, its used by many thousands of hobbyists.

For example balenaSound is very popular, for multi-room audio with rapsberry pi's https://sound.balenalabs.io/

There is also balenaHub, which hosts many community projects and introduces the concept of "open fleets", bring your device and join the fleet, instead of managing it yourself https://hub.balena.io/fleets

Disclosure: I am an engineer at balena.

I‘ve used RPiPlay as an AirPlay mirroring server. You can set it up to run at startup and only be visible during active connections. This means that everything will work just like always until someone connects using screen mirroring.

You might give a try to https://github.com/FD-/RPiPlay

Some background: I'm using a Pi Zero W Rev 1.1 hooked up to a TV over HDMI, acting as an AirPlay mirroring server (using RPiPlay). I'm running Raspbian Buster since I had problems building RPiPlay on Raspbian Bullseye. I have pulseaudio 12.2 installed, and I'm using gstreamer 1.14.4 as the audio renderer for RPiPlay.

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