Updating posts - cleaning things up

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+** My multiroom audio setup
+
+I've put my home audio solution together out of the following
+components.
+
+- [[https://github.com/badaix/snapcast][Snapcast]]
+
+- [[https://www.musicpd.org/][MPD]]
+
+- [[https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot][Librespot]]
+
+- [[https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync][Shairport-sync]]
+
+- A mini-PC in my closet running the above software
+
+- Two Raspberry Pi 4s
+
+- Four Raspberry Pi Zero Ws
+
+- Some desktop speakers and some Bluetooth speakers (wired to the Pis)
+
+Each of the Raspberry Pis is in a room or porch attached to a speaker.
+
+Snapcast lets me take an audio source and synchronize it across multiple
+clients. Each of the Raspberry Pis are running a =snapclient= instance
+and play whatever the =snapserver= instance tells them to.
+
+Snapcast is setup to send whichever of the streams (MPD, Spotify,
+Shairport-sync/AirPlay) is playing audio to each of the clients that are
+connected to it.
+
+This lets me or anyone else on my WiFi network play directly on one or
+more of the speakers - each named for the room that they're in using
+either Spotify, AirPlay, picking from my own music collection or by
+pointing at a URL (like to a podcast episode).
+
+This works out great and we've used it at home for the past year.
+
+I'd like to get the podcast experience to a more seamless place but it's
+pretty OK right now using AirMusic on my phone to play audio to the
+speakers over AirPlay.