Multi Room Speaker System Raspberry Pi

Instructables user piney shows us it 39 s possible with a raspberry pi or multiple pis for.

Multi room speaker system raspberry pi.

In this article i will explain how to set up a multi room audio streaming system based on apple idevices cheap raspberry pi players and any computer either linux windows or mac. The constantly running pc was as noisy as a gas turbine. To play back audio initially i was using a 5 1 sound card and i fed the 6 channels to 6 loudspeakers with foobar. Multi room audio with raspberry pi.

Later i used 4 squeezeboxes and 3 raspberry pis with squeezeplug installed since logitech decided to discontinue its squeezebox system. Streaming music in any room is definitely a luxury but it doesn 39 t have to be an expensive one. Most of the products to buy are a significant cost per room for me considering i all ready have the speakers amplifiers in place. Spurred on by my children.

7th july 2020 turn your spare raspberry pis and speakers into a fleet of synchronized multi room audio players. Raspberry pi has changed all that and now the only qualification for such a multi room audio system is the ability to follow step by step instructions and maybe 100 per room for good sound through existing loudspeakers and under 30 if you have an old set of computer speakers lying around and are really not fussed about quality. Here s how i did it. I recently set it up at home with some raspberry pis to play spotify around my apartment.

Raspberry pi multi room music player. In between the squeezeboxes and the. Snapcast is an open source project that streams audio over network so it can be played synchronously like sonos. I tried to show my work so hopefully people can follow along i m no raspberry pi linux expert myself.

You will be able to do the following.