Listen to a single track, a playlist, an album or your complete music collection. Just browse the MPD music library and choose what you want to hear. With the MPD client you can control what music is playing. The Snapclient runs in the background and just plays all the audio that the Snapserver is streaming. I use these clients on my Linux Mint desktop computers (in different rooms) and on my laptop. The music you hear comes from the Snapclients. At the same time it assures that the clients are synchronized, so that the audio is played in sync. The Snapserver streams the audio from MPD to the different Snapclients over the home network (LAN). In the default configuration of MPD, the audio is sent to the internal sound card. The music on the server is played by the Music Player Daemon (MPD). I will refer to this computer as the server. You can use any GNU/Linux computer to serve your music. ServerĪll my music is stored on my server. Note: MPD and Snapcast (Snapserver and Snapclient) can run on Windows too, but this project is only about MPD and Snapcast on GNU/Linux. In case you want to build one yourself, I hope you will find some useful information here.īelow you see a schematic picture of my setup. On this page you can read about how I set up my whole home audio system. And wow, this is fun! And it works great! In my case there was no need to buy extra hardware. With this software in conjunction with the Music Player Daemon (MPD), you can build your own multi-room audio player. But these where stand-alone audio setups that could not play in sync. Each setup consisting of a GNU/Linux computer, an amplifier and speakers. I already had audio setups in my living room, kitchen and hobby room. There are many whole home audio systems available today, like the well-known audio system Sonos. Just tap on your phone to play your favorite song. No wires are needed, because the music can be distributed via wifi. Playing your music in every room of your house in sync, wouldn't that be nice? A multi-room audio system makes this possible. To Home Page Multi-room audio player with MPD and Snapcast Martin's GNU/Linux Projects - Multi-room audio player Martin's
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