Zynthian as Airplay receiver

Using Zynthian
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Hi there,

I realized I could use my Zynthian as an Airplay device since it is allready hooked to my mixer for streaming some Audio to my speakers.

Is there a simple way to enable airplay via the backend or the interface? Or do I have to do it via SSH?
Anyone experience with this?

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This looks pretty straight forward but you would have to be careful it doesn’t break other Zynthian functions. I will backup my image and try the installing it on my dev RPi later. Not sure how to include it in official build but I think it would make a good feature to include especially if you could include it as an audio source to sample.

Which open a whole can of worms of functionality if you could extend it to have functionality like AudioShare or AudioCopy to iOS, connect to it as a AUv3 source or as a class compliant audio/MIDI interface.

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thanks pac_71,

yes the steps are quite straight forward. but as you say I dont want to break something. It would be an awesome feature for sure! If it is easily sart and stopable like this: sudo service shairport-sync start/stop
It is quite usable in my opinion.

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Since I am not using Apple products I realized that I can do all of this with pulseaudio or jack for example. There might be other ways.

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Where, or what, do you want to stream the sound from?

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@Baggypants appearance took longer than I thought it would. :smiley:

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At first priority from my Ubuntu Notebook. Second would be my Android phone.

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I think using DLNA might be a better idea than airplay. The problem would be getting the DLNA renderer to output using JACK I think.