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title = "My multiroom audio setup"
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date = "2022-11-08"
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I've put my home audio solution together out of the following components.
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- [Snapcast](https://github.com/badaix/snapcast)
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- [MPD](https://www.musicpd.org/)
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- [Librespot](https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot)
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- [Shairport-sync](https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync)
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- A mini-PC in my closet running the above software
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- Two Raspberry Pi 4s
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- Four Raspberry Pi Zero Ws
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- Some desktop speakers and some Bluetooth speakers (wired to the Pis)
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Each of the Raspberry Pis is in a room or porch attached to a speaker.
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Snapcast lets me take an audio source and synchronize it across multiple
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clients. Each of the Raspberry Pis are running a `snapclient` instance and play
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whatever the `snapserver` instance tells them to.
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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.
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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).
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This works out great and we've used it at home for the past year.
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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.
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