Snapcast Alternatives

Snapcast reviews and mentions

• Heartbroken by the App Disaster and What's Happened to the Company
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2024

  I tried shairport some time ago, but settled on https://github.com/badaix/snapcast and have a really great and reliable open-source multi-room setup

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

  I’ve had success with Snapcast when looking into this previously https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

• Why is Spotify not implementing this?
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2023

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

  Works perfectly on pis scattered around the house.

• MultiRoom MulitCast Spotify Sound System Recommendations
  1 project | /r/homeautomation | 21 May 2023

  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).

• Audio options for 3 to 5 zones.
  1 project | /r/homeautomation | 1 May 2023

  - 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 don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
  22 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2023

  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

• Whole home sync'd rpi audio w plex, spotify, airplay
  5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Apr 2023

  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.

• Camper Touchscreen Audio Setup
  3 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 31 Mar 2023

  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 .

• Recommendations for Multi-Room Speaker With Multiple Audio Sources?
  1 project | /r/homeautomation | 1 Mar 2023

  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.

• Question about muti-room audio solutions
  3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Feb 2023
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