After using some bluetooth modules to play music from the smarphone to the home cinema, I decided to improve the system and check new alternatives.
I have my music on my home server with a plex media server installed or from multiple music provider as spotify, apple music etc. So my device must be compatible with all of them.
Also, I want to be wireless from the source, so the player must read the files directly from the source if could be.
Raspberry pi + DAC
As I have a spare raspberry pi spare at home, I want to give it a second life.
The default sound from the Raspberry pi (3 model B) jack or hdmi could not be nice enough, so I decided to try a cheap usb DAC, this one exactly
Software
Plexamp
Plexamp is the perfect player for plex music. It has a version for headless system, so will fit perfectly into the raspberry.
Plexamp is very easy to install, just install node16 and download the latest plexamp, unzip and run
Here you have a post which help me.
Note: To use Plexamp you need the plex pass. If not, your headless plexamp will not be shown as a player.
Airplay
The unix software shairport-sync will let us to send our music from our ios devices to the raspberry.
Install it from apt:
sudo apt install shairport-syncRaspotify
Raspotify will add the raspi as a speaker into our spotify app, so we can send the music to the speaker efortless.
