On: Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon

[dfgldjglj]

To repurpose your old stereo with a raspberry today, just run https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync on it :-)

This way you can send any audio from laptop/phone to the stereo over lan.

Not sure why you would want to limit yourself to the service of a single provider. (What value does Spotify Connect add, if any?)

[soneil → dfgldjglj]

Spotify Connect lets any spotify client act as a remote, and lets you hand-off from one sink to another.

The primary benefit for me is that a Connect client is actually connecting to spotify itself - it's less output sink and more headless client. So if I start spotify playing, and then close my laptop, it can sleep properly without interrupting my Connect device.

[rahimnathwani → dfgldjglj]

Shairport-sync is great for iOS clients, but I know of no way to stream the audio from my Pixel to my Pi.

[d76d673dsysuy → rahimnathwani]

For Android, or any other Linux based situation, you can just use PulseAudio for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5-phFVfZnQ

[rahimnathwani → d76d673dsysuy]

Thanks! Very interesting. But it's not a good fit for me.

The source for the app used in the video is here: https://github.com/ford-prefect/pa-output-switcher

That repo links to a page about building an AOSP firmware image which uses pulseaudio: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Ports/A...

I don't want to use a custom firmware image. I like the firmware provided by Google, and the monthly security updates. If I were to switch to a custom build of AOSP, I'd need to sideload Google Play Services (by downloading it from a source I trust less than I trust Google) and would also no longer get security updates.