balena-sound vs python-appimage

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)

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AppImage distributions of Python (by niess)

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balena-sound		python-appimage
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35	Mentions	6
2,352	Stars	161
1.0%	Growth	-
6.0	Activity	5.8
10 days ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
TypeScript	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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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
1 project | /r/hometheater | 1 Aug 2023
Camper Touchscreen Audio Setup
3 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 31 Mar 2023

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.
Balena Sound plugin for headless plexamp
1 project | /r/plexamp | 4 Dec 2022

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.
Is it possible to add Spotify Connect to a headless Plexamp image?
1 project | /r/plexamp | 20 Oct 2022

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?
1 project | /r/HomeNetworking | 18 Oct 2022
Whole Home Audio? It's not networking but
1 project | /r/HomeNetworking | 25 Sep 2022
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.
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 6 Aug 2022

Try this, it is made for raspberry pi but you might be able to run it on your laptop. https://sound.balenalabs.io/
Streaming the same music to multiple devices?
1 project | /r/PleX | 29 Jul 2022

Or you can tey something like this https://sound.balenalabs.io
Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2022

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
1 project | /r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS | 3 Jun 2022

python-appimage

Posts with mentions or reviews of python-appimage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-15.

How to install SOSREPORT
1 project | /r/redhat | 6 Feb 2023
Python 3.11 delivers.
4 projects | /r/Python | 15 Dec 2022
Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2022

As an alternative just package everything up in an AppImage and use a AppRun shim script.. Then just deploy the AppImage to whatever.
https://xon.sh/appimage.html#building-your-own-xonsh-appimag...
https://github.com/niess/python-appimage
Python 3.10 to 3.7
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 15 May 2022

wget https://github.com/niess/python-appimage/releases/download/python3.7/python3.7.13-cp37-cp37m-manylinux2014_x86_64.AppImage
How to manage python consistency across a range of RHEL releases?
1 project | /r/Python | 18 Dec 2021

Would a python appimage work in your case? https://github.com/niess/python-appimage
Upgrade python to 3.9
2 projects | /r/Crostini | 8 Sep 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing balena-sound and python-appimage you can also consider the following projects:

Snapcast - Synchronous multiroom audio player

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

RPiPlay - An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.

bauh - Graphical user interface for managing your Linux applications. Supports AppImage, Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Flatpak, Snap and native Web applications

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.

AM2R-Autopatcher-Linux - Host repository for the AM2R Linux update data.

shairport-sync - AirPlay and AirPlay 2 audio player

Bottles - Run Windows software and games on Linux

ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer - Stream the sound of your desktop to your Chromecast Audio device

vidcutter - A modern yet simple multi-platform video cutter and joiner.

ESP32_ESP8266_WiFi_Speaker_OLED - A MP3 streaming WiFi speaker for ESP8266 & ESP32 chips

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