Balena-sound Alternatives

balena-sound reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: How do you play syncronized audio across multiple receivers in 2024?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2024

  Since posting this, I also discovered Balena-sound:

  https://github.com/balena-io-experimental/balena-sound

  I haven't yet been able to try it yet, but may be an alternative to snapcast.

• 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.

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