balena-sound
Build a single or multi-room streamer for an existing audio device using a Raspberry Pi! Supports Bluetooth, Airplay and Spotify Connect (by balena-io-experimental)
owntone-server
Linux/FreeBSD DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay 1 and 2 speakers (multiroom), Apple Remote (and compatibles), Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio. (by owntone)
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| balena-sound | owntone-server | |
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| 35 | 29 | |
| 2,352 | 1,949 | |
| 1.0% | 1.2% | |
| 6.0 | 9.8 | |
| 10 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| TypeScript | C | |
| MIT License | 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.
balena-sound
Posts with mentions or reviews of balena-sound.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-31.
- Whole House Audio System
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Camper Touchscreen Audio Setup
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.
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Balena Sound plugin for headless plexamp
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.
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Is it possible to add Spotify Connect to a headless Plexamp image?
It actually is. You can use balena sound as a base image and then install plexamp on top: https://github.com/balenalabs/balena-sound
- Networked sound system?
- Whole Home Audio? It's not networking but
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My setup is Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS running on a Lenovo laptop. I want to have Spotify Connect working on it and to be able to play music through the speaker that get connected to the laptop thru 3.5mm AUX cable.
Try this, it is made for raspberry pi but you might be able to run it on your laptop. https://sound.balenalabs.io/
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Streaming the same music to multiple devices?
Or you can tey something like this https://sound.balenalabs.io
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Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices
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.
- Suggestions for a PI headless music server that has app support
owntone-server
Posts with mentions or reviews of owntone-server.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.
- Spotify/Youtube Music alternative?
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Bose SoundTouch WiFi Audio Streaming
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
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Music streaming that handles weird files and playlists
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.
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Use Raspberry api to pass high def audio to external fax
The thread here [Pi forum] is long (70+ pages so far) and the documentation is here [Github]
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Can a Shortcut make AirPlay-1 and 2 Speaker Play Together ?
A possible solution, especially if you have something like a Raspberry Pi: Owntone
- How do I use Server as Speakers?
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Forte - An open-source, self-hosted music platform with lots of features!
Check it out; https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server
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Need help setting up local network only MPD server.
Check out Owntone, it supports MPD. https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/
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Introducing the all-new HomePod | Apple
I set this up after stumbling on it - https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server and it solves a lot of my issues.
- Selfhosted Spotify / YouTube Music alternative.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing balena-sound and owntone-server you can also consider the following projects:
Snapcast - Synchronous multiroom audio player
mpd - Music Player Daemon
RPiPlay - An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.
shairport-sync - AirPlay and AirPlay 2 audio player
ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer - Stream the sound of your desktop to your Chromecast Audio device
forked-daapd - OwnTone is forked-daapd's new name! Linux/FreeBSD DAAP (iTunes) and MPD media server with support for AirPlay devices (multiroom), Apple Remote (and compatibles), Chromecast, Spotify and internet radio. [Moved to: https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server]
ESP32_ESP8266_WiFi_Speaker_OLED - A MP3 streaming WiFi speaker for ESP8266 & ESP32 chips
LMS - Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.
Navidrome Music Server - 🎧☁️ Modern Music Server and Streamer compatible with Subsonic/Airsonic
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