raspotify VS AirConnect

The last.fm site will work independently from airplay, so it will display whatever is playing, even if you are not using airplay to stream to your pi. Because it is just a standard Raspberry Pi OS running, you could also set it up as a MPD client https://linuxhint.com/raspberry-pi-music-station-mpd/ or https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify. As long as you are submitting music to last.fm the song will display.

For Spotify Connect on a Pi I can recommend Raspotify:

https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify allows you to use Spotify connect on Raspberry Pi's, so you can manually move your music using the Spotify app.

It creates pulseaudio sinks for every dlna compatible device in the network. I then use this repo: https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify

make sure to get a a config file going

then ran sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y and followed with the instructions from raspotify. make sure to get a a config file going I also used this troubleshooting page to tweak my pi's setting to "optimize" the audio quality as much as I could.

I don't have any control or library software built into my setup. I'm only running https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify for Spotify Connect and https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync for AirPlay streaming, so I have no need to interact directly with the Pi during normal usage. It's all controlled from my phone or PC natively.

Here’s the link: Airplay to Google

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.

Heh, I'm doing a similar thing with a random cheap internet radio and Apple AirPlay: My Rasbperry Pi is running AirConnect in a Docker container and converts all UPnP devices to AirPlay recipients.

https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect

On the Ubuntu machine I install AirConnect. This creates a bridge that lets you play music to chromecast devices through Airplay.

Check out Airconnect

hey OP! i am going to second u/fkick on this one here. you should check out AirConnect. You can run it as a daemon in macOS, or as a Docker container. If you have r/homeassistant supervised installed, you can also install the integration there as well :) i have used it for a year or so now and its pretty great.

You could use AirConnect for this purpose. It allows you to use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices that do not natively support AirPlay. So for your play1.