Re: [PLUG] Open Source Whole House Audio Streaming Alternatives to Sonos, Chromecast

["Keith C. Perry" <kperry@daotechnologies.com>]

Between the Chromecast and Mediatomb I can stream music or video to every screen or DLNA device on my net or off net via VPN and using something like Kodi.  For just music I tend to use my phone and stream to my bluetooth speaker.

Now... if you want to have EVERY speaker in your house streaming the same thing then you can do that with RPi's with USB audio outs or whatever and slave them to a multicast address that your media player is sending to.  I've done this with ffmpeg and mplayer.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "brent saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:04:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Open Source Whole House Audio Streaming Alternatives to Sonos, Chromecast

On 09/27/2017 09:38 AM, Will wrote:
> Shoutcast is the closest I found to work. It was a plugin for winamp and
> I think its still available. Regardless there are internet radio FOSS
> solutions. I've covered and entire college campus with my music that way. 
> 
> The other option is to transmit via FM or 900MHz band. It works so well
> and the quality is quite good for the 900MHz transmitters. The more
> analog approach will guarentee there will not be any lag issues either. 
> 
> 
> -Will
> 

shoutcast[0] is actually just a proprietary implementation of icecast[1]
- or rather, the icecast protocol[2]. you can even stream (or listen) to
icecast with vlc[3].


[0] https://www.shoutcast.com/
[1] http://icecast.org/docs/
[2] https://gist.github.com/ePirat/adc3b8ba00d85b7e3870
[3] http://write.flossmanuals.net/vlc/streaming-to-icecast/


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