Multi Room Speaker System Raspberry Pi

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 speaker system raspberry pi.

For a long time i have been trying to figure out what i need for a multi room music set up. Instructables user piney shows us it 39 s possible with a raspberry pi or multiple pis for. 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.

In between the squeezeboxes and the. 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. 7th july 2020 turn your spare raspberry pis and speakers into a fleet of synchronized multi room audio players. Streaming music in any room is definitely a luxury but it doesn 39 t have to be an expensive one.

Submitted by andy jenkinson on fri 01 16 2015 11 36. Multi room audio with raspberry pi. Spurred on by my children. Here s how i did it.

The constantly running pc was as noisy as a gas turbine. Most of the products to buy are a significant cost per room for me considering i all ready have the speakers amplifiers in place. You will be able to do the following. Snapcast is an open source project that streams audio over network so it can be played synchronously like sonos.

Raspberry pi multi room music player.