Multi Room Speaker System Raspberry Pi

I recently set it up at home with some raspberry pis to play spotify around my apartment.

Multi room speaker system raspberry pi. Most of the products to buy are a significant cost per room for me considering i all ready have the speakers amplifiers in place. To play back audio initially i was using a 5 1 sound card and i fed the 6 channels to 6 loudspeakers with foobar. The constantly running pc was as noisy as a gas turbine. Submitted by andy jenkinson on fri 01 16 2015 11 36.

I tried to show my work so hopefully people can follow along i m no raspberry pi linux expert myself. Later i used 4 squeezeboxes and 3 raspberry pis with squeezeplug installed since logitech decided to discontinue its squeezebox system. Multi room audio with 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.

Spurred on by my children. Streaming music in any room is definitely a luxury but it doesn 39 t have to be an expensive one. 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.

You will be able to do the following. Raspberry pi multi room music player. Build your own multi room audio system with bluetooth airplay and spotify using raspberry pis last updated. For a long time i have been trying to figure out what i need for a multi room music set up.

Here s how i did it.