Selfhosted @lemmy.world palitu @lemmy.perthchat.org 1y ago

Snapcast - How many of you are using it?

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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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.
- 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
  
  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!)
I'm using snapcast, though more as an alternative for icecast to just play my music from mpd, rather than for its more advanced syncing features.

snapserver is on my main server, and snapclient on my desktop PC, my laptop, and on raspberry pi's connected to main speakers throughout the house. I can start/stop the clients via my home automation system.
- it sounds like you use it for sync'ing if you have multiple clients?
  
  how are you getting audio out of the rPi's?
I use it for multiroom audio with Spotify. Main node is a random low power x86 box which doubles as my torrent server, and the only one client is an old atom netbook with 1gb ram, both hooked up to speakers. The flat is quite small so it's more than sufficient, I just wanted more even loudness distribution.

I have some stability issues with it, but to be honest it might be the hardware's fault too. I'd love to build a uniform set of all-in-one nodes with raspberry pis/batteries/speakers tho.

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