We have speakers in all the ground floor rooms of our house, all driven from the same amp. It’s neat but controlling the input requires going back to the amp.
Surrounded by iDevices too and with apps like iPlayer, Spotify and home share on iTunes, being able to throw audio to the speaker system had to be done. Que Airplay, however, this requires a nice Airplay amp or getting an AirPort. I then found out about Shairport, a program that emulates an AirPort’s Airplay function. With a Raspberry Pi kicking around, I had just found its new job.
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