I love it!

It gets used every day at my house, and i have build a ryobi battery powered portable speaker for when i am working outside. I typically use RPi3 and RPi0, with an amp-hat to power speakers.

does anyone else use it? and if so, what is your setup and have you found any decent hardware/solutions?

  • ScherPegnau@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I use it for multiroom audio with Spotify. Main node is a random low power x86 box which doubles as my torrent server, and the only one client is an old atom netbook with 1gb ram, both hooked up to speakers. The flat is quite small so it’s more than sufficient, I just wanted more even loudness distribution.

    I have some stability issues with it, but to be honest it might be the hardware’s fault too. I’d love to build a uniform set of all-in-one nodes with raspberry pis/batteries/speakers tho.

  • proycon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m using snapcast, though more as an alternative for icecast to just play my music from mpd, rather than for its more advanced syncing features.

    snapserver is on my main server, and snapclient on my desktop PC, my laptop, and on raspberry pi’s connected to main speakers throughout the house. I can start/stop the clients via my home automation system.

    • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      it sounds like you use it for sync’ing if you have multiple clients?

      how are you getting audio out of the rPi’s?

  • hillbicks@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Are you using groups with snapcast? Lat time I used it that was a major pain in the ass and made me switch to squeezebox.

    Afair the groups were named on the fly and you couldn’t create static ones (downstairs, house for example)

    EDIT: Found one of the threads and it is still open. https://github.com/badaix/snapcast/issues/308 Seems there is a workaround for home assistant, but that doesn’t look like it is really stable so to speak. I guess I’ll stick with squeezebox for now, the sync feature is good enough for me.

    • banana1@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 years ago

      If it wasn’t the fact that I always had iasues with spotify on LMS/SqueezeBox, I would still use it today. Songs stopping and/or randomly skipping a few times per hour killed my experience

      I started using Mopidy with Snapcast. My only issue so far is Iris’s spotify search that’s a bit of a mess

      Edit: I know the fix would be to stop using spotify ahah

      • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgOPEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Is there a reason you use mopidy and not librespot? Then use the main spotify clients (desktop/mobile) to control it?

        I have never gotten my head around mopidy/mpd etc.

        (i am going to guess it is to play local music too!)

        • banana1@lemmy.caEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Mopidy (and LogitechMediaServer for that matter) will obviously let you stream local music or use other plugins (like TuneIn or other streaming platforms) but what really didn’t work for me with librespot was the way it works when having multiple people using it.

          Arriving home to my SO listening to music and needing to connect spotify to librespot, select join (vs take over), then stopping the music was what I didn’t like much. I feel like queues are also not the easiest thing to handle on spotify

          That being said, I prefered browsing/searching on spotify and I like the fact that we didn’t have to use only one of our account to stream (so Daily Mixes on my account were affected by everything that was streamed for example)

          I honnestly didn’t find a perfect solution yet, so I am open to ideas!

          • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgOPEnglish
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            2 years ago

            fair enough. I never really got my head around it, and i am not too concerned by the daily mixes getting mixed up, though we are getting some really crap music come through from my 10 year old!

            Are you just using the 3.5mm jack for audio out?

            • banana1@lemmy.caEnglish
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              2 years ago

              I have speakers througout the house wired to my mechanical room and divided in 3 groups so I use a Pi4 with 3 USB sound cards with small amps

              I am not sure what speaker setup I’d like when I move though! I might do it differently!

              • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.orgOPEnglish
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                2 years ago

                undefined> room and divided in 3 groups so I use a Pi4 with 3 USB sound cards with small amps

                I am not sure what speaker setup I’d like when I move though! I might do it differently!

                Yeah cool.

                I went fully remote, 3 rPi’s and Amp Hats directly to the local speakers.

                • banana1@lemmy.caEnglish
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                  2 years ago

                  That’s what I was thinking for the next build. Having all clients running on the same Pi isn’t necessarily the best idea, espacially with the Pi4 as the USB controller have a buffer issue I didn’t have on my Pi3 when running multiple USB soundcards