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Snapcast - How many of you are using it? (lemmy.perthchat.org)
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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?

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[–] hillbicks@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 points 2 years ago

i have been using these, with the first one my main one at the moment, as the suptronix one is more expensive and harder to get hold of. I typically install dietPi, as the audio setup tends to be easier.

inno-maker hifi-amp-hat

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JustBoom zero amp

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dtparam=audio=off
dtoverlay=i2s-mmap
dtoverlay=justboom-dac

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Suptronics x400

dtoverlay=iqaudio-dacplus

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