Snapcast VS ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast!

Works perfectly on pis scattered around the house.

Snapcast: The cheapest and most modular option is deploying small form factor linux clients (raspberry pis, or any host all) with an audio interface (3.5mm, RCA, or otherwise), and connect the audio output interface to your choice of speaker. Snapcast is the open-source multi-room brains. It works well in my experience, but it is tricky to get setup properly to start with. Spotify Connect support is possible so you can launch your Spotify listening session from the Spotify app. Snapcast also integrates into Home Assistant for ease of adding/removing clients from the active listening sessions (yes, plural. You can have multiple listening sessions from multiple audio input sources at once).

- snapcast - this server/client software will broadcast synchronized audio from any source to any snapcast client. The server and clients can all run on the same computer. Individual clients are assigned to their own usb soundcard. Source and volume for each client is controlled through the webpage and/or homeassistant.

I have a music library on my home server that I use mopidy to play via the iris plugin integrated into my home assistant UI. It plays over Snapcast which streams over the network to multiple devices in the home with independent volume control. I can fire up the Snapcast client in my phone to get it going there as well, which does work over vpn if I'm away, though I generally just fire up the files from my phones SD card for out-of-home listening. I recently started using whipper on Linux to extract audio from craigslist cds.

https://mopidy.com/

https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

You want SnapCast. You'd run snapserver on your Linux box and snapclient on your Pi's. Snapserver has support for Airplay (via shairport-sync) and Spotify (via librespot). I recommend using MPD for your music library, as I don't think PlexAmp can output audio in a way that's useful for snapserver.

Instead of splitting audio from the jack output you can create a Little network with a router and have more rpi streaming music over It using snapcastsnapcast .

If you're into the idea of an open-source client/server architecture, then there's Snapcast. If you have a few Raspberry Pis (one per output source) or any other box that can run Linux and has an audio out interface, then this is cheap and easy with an active Home Assistant integration too.

I'm setting up a whole home audio set up and looking for suggestions in the design. Currently, I run Snapcast on Raspberry pis connected to various soundbars or amps. It's working ok, but has issues (Mostly on some of the 2.4GHz WiFi Pis that can't keep up with the bandwidth).

For the multi-room audio, check out snapcast. If you like it, we could try to convince the Symfonium dev to add the ability to cast music directly to snapcast, which I would love to have!

What type of speaker? I use https://github.com/SamDel/ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer to stream things to ChromeCast Audio devices. It technically streams everything from my computer, not just MusicBee

I know its not the workaround you might be looking for, but something you could use until you figure it out. Just install https://github.com/SamDel/ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer on your computer, and then open the spotify app, or navigate to the webapp. From here you can play your music and your desktop audio will cast to your speaker group without stuttering. Keep in mind all audio from the computer will play on the speaker group, with a delay, so you'll want to turn down the speakers on your computer to zero. Good luck

Does anyone know a way I can cast only the video portion of my desktop and not the audio? For example, I use Chromecast Audio Streamer to stream my desktop audio only and not video. I am now looking for something that works the opposite - casts only the video and not the audio.

First one is some software called "Chromecast Desktop Audio Streamer" that lets you change the volume of individual speakers OR groups from your PC. You can download it here

Have a look through the troubleshooting wiki. If all else fails you can manually add the speaker. https://github.com/SamDel/ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer/wiki

I use a really old Windows laptop (named Old Deller) to cast the audio output (using VB cable as an audio sink so the laptop doesn’t play the audio from its speakers) with the program https://github.com/SamDel/ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer to a chrome cast audio home group (5 chromecast audio’s connected to various speaker sets). It works pretty well, they don’t go out of phase, but sometimes the chromecasts lose connection and it’s difficult to get it going again. Old Deller is old af (Vista sticker) and uses its Wifi card which may be some of the issues, or the chromecast audios might be finicky idk. Takes a few minutes to restart the comp and fuck with the app. It plays audio files with MusicBee + its remote app (iTunes remote app had an issue with giant playlists for a long time, idk if Apple ever fixed they seemed not to give a shit about the remote app) and it also uses VoiceMeeter to capture and play the audio from a physical XM Radio. There’s a 5-10 sec delay, which is no problem if just listening to music.

https://github.com/acidhax/chromecast-audio-stream https://github.com/SamDel/ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer Music player https://github.com/elibroftw/music-caster/ why use this when vlc can cast, also I havn't used google chrome in awhile but last time I did I was able to cast from the browser.