Using Raspberry Pi as wireless airplay speaker receiver
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Published 2012-12-27
-Raspberry Pi
-SD card (2GB is plenty for this)
-USB Wifi adapter (I used Edimax EW-7811UN nano adapter as it is suitably tiny and is well support by the RPi community)
-Micro usb cable for power
-An ethernet cable for initial setup (can be bypassed if you instead use a keyboard and monitor to setup the Pi)
RECIPE
See jordanburgess.com/post/38986434391/raspberry-pi-ai… for details
[song is Tsim Sha Tsui by Jack Steadman - soundcloud.com/jack-steadman/tsim-sha-tsui]
All Comments (16)
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Thanks, not only did I find a new way to use AirPlay (currently using an old iphone) but I found new music to stream to it! Great work!
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Thanks for putting that masterpiece of a song in the description. Also cool thingy. Cheers!
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Cheers! Song is Tsim Sha Tsui by Jack Steadman (singer of Bombay Bicycle Club) I'll post a link in the video description.
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I love the song!
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Have you had or heard of a glitch in the audio every so many seconds like a brief skip in the track but every 15-20 seconds on the dot. Thats why I scraped this idea but maybe it was the build or the audio device. Any ideas. I'm looking to just stream audio from a bluetooth receiver pi to other wifi receiver pi speakers?
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Sweet! Awesome job
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If you use RaspBMC you can use AirPlay for Movies aswell...
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thanks for the input! I figured it wasn't good for an airplay system. Too bad! and it's quite expensive in Eastern Europe, it's 70 bucks!
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Everything works well, up until the point where you have to ''Installing Perl Net-SDP" then the it says to alert the author because some file is missing?
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Yeah I have that was me too! You just need to run the command as root, so sudo at the beginning :)
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(i think you've solved this now) yeah those files are missing but I don't know what they're for, and they don't seem to cause any issues.
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Does it work for android devices?
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Curious what song you played for the demo? BTW. Great project. I love raspberry Pi
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Yeah not great. The problem is that the Raspberry Pi doesn't have a dedicated digital (mp3) to analogue (headphone connection) converter and so it just approximates it by rapidly turning on and off the output (PWM). May get a few pop sounds too. Not audiophile quality but certainly listenable.
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Hey dude, How's the audio quality? Any problems , cracking sounds or anything?