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Airfoil VS Snapcast

Compare Airfoil VS Snapcast and see what are their differences

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Airfoil logo Airfoil

This software is from the Rogue Amoeba company, built to run on Mac and Windows platforms. It’s an audio-based software that allows the computers sound to play over a network device. Read more about Airfoil.

Snapcast logo Snapcast

Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio.
  • Airfoil Landing page
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    2021-09-27
  • Snapcast Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-09-10

Airfoil videos

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AIRFOIL WIRELESS AUDIO: How To WIRELESSLY STREAM MUSIC IN YOUR HOME using AIRFOIL and your iPhone

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Snapcast videos

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Snapcast/MPD/Spotify Connect demo

More videos:

  • Review - Multi-room audio setup w/ Mopidy, Pulseaudio & Snapcast

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Airfoil and Snapcast)

Airfoil

Snapcast

Audio
89 89%
Audio
11% 11
Music Streaming
84 84%
Music Streaming
16% 16
Audio & Music
91 91%
Audio & Music
9% 9
Tool
100 100%
Tool
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Airfoil seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 26 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Airfoil mentions (26)

  • What music streaming service do you use and why?
    Within the house, I use Airfoil to stream between my computers and my systems. https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/. Source: 10 months ago
  • What are some features other DAWs have that you wish Logic had?
    You can use Airfoil to directly stream your song through your iPhone without having to bounce the song first. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Does anyone else have sound out of only 1 display?
    You can also use an app like Airfoil from Rogue Amoeba for more control and output to Bluetooth and AirPlay devices as well as physically connected ones. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Anyone figured out a way to use a computer as a Sonos speaker?
    Have an explore of this software. Might be what you are looking for. Airfoil. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Airfoil solves HomePods as System Speaker Cut Out issue
    Fast forward to this morning when I saw mention of an older audio app called Airfoil in a different context, and I remembered I used this app to cast to other devices ages ago. I see that they support HomePods specifically now and decided to download and give it a try (bonus: my license from 2016 is still valid) It's been rock solid for over 2 hours now. This does not fix lag, but I can now use my HomePods as... Source: about 1 year ago
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Snapcast mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Snapcast yet. Tracking of Snapcast recommendations started around Jun 2023.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Airfoil and Snapcast, you can also consider the following products

SoundWire - SoundWire does audio mirroring (audio cast). You can use any music player on your PC or laptop like Spotify, YouTube, or iTunes and stream low-latency live sound over WiFi directly to your Android device.

Maloja - Simple self-hosted music scrobble database to create personal listening statistics.

AudioRelay - Listen to your PC audio, use your phone as a mic or stream audio from your phone

GNU-fm server - GNU FM is the music community platform created in 2009 for the GNU Project. It implements the Audioscrobbler protocol, powers libre.fm and supports federation between many Auidoscrobbler servers, including Last.fm.

Stream What You Hear - Stream What You Hear.

Euterpe - Euterpe is an open-source self-hosted streaming music media server.

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