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Volumio mentions (34)

• Camper Touchscreen Audio Setup

  Have a look at the Balena Sound project on Github here and other possible options would be Volumino or RuneAudio - they are not up to professional multi-room sound systems but may give you some of the functionality you want. Source: about 1 year ago

• Very unhappy with Roon. Need another solution.

  Perhaps try Volumio - they have their own products, but if you own a DAC and have a Raspberry Pi you can build your own. Controllable from their app too. Source: over 1 year ago

• Any music servers (like Navidrome) that can ALSO pull from Spotify?

  Volumio? Spotify support, playback of local files, and a web client. I stopped using in in the end because the queuing of the songs was buggy, but if you‘re an album-at-once type of person, this might be a good fit! Source: over 1 year ago

• Best option for wirelessly powering wired ceiling speakers?

  If you want to save some money and like tinkering, you can look at open source alternatives that run on hardware like RPI, here's an example of one - https://volumio.com/en/. Source: over 1 year ago

• MiniPC for music streaming with TEAC UD-505 DAC

  Take a look at Volumio for the Raspberry Pi: https://volumio.com/en/. Source: over 1 year ago

Balena Sound mentions (11)

• Is there a self-hosted software for hifi music streaming?

  I personally use balena sound Https://sound.balenalabs.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Whole home audio amp/receiver recommendations

  I've had balena bookmarked for a minute to try to roll my own Sonos alternative, but I haven't tried it yet. Source: over 1 year ago

• My setup is Ubuntu server 22.04 LTS running on a Lenovo laptop. I want to have Spotify Connect working on it and to be able to play music through the speaker that get connected to the laptop thru 3.5mm AUX cable.

  Try this, it is made for raspberry pi but you might be able to run it on your laptop. https://sound.balenalabs.io/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Streaming the same music to multiple devices?

  Or you can tey something like this https://sound.balenalabs.io. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ubuntu Core 22 is now available – optimised for IoT and embedded devices

  First 10 devices on balena are free, its used by many thousands of hobbyists. For example balenaSound is very popular, for multi-room audio with rapsberry pi's https://sound.balenalabs.io/ There is also balenaHub, which hosts many community projects and introduces the concept of "open fleets", bring your device and join the fleet, instead of managing it yourself https://hub.balena.io/fleets Disclosure: I am an... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago