The house I live in has integrated speakers and they are all hooked up to an old AV receiver (Marantz NR1604). Currently it is annoying to play music through the receiver because essentially I have to plug my phone directly to the receiver. I am looking at other options.
Currently I set up a RaspPi to run Volumio, then I connected the RaspPi directly to the receiver. This allows me to play music from a music library (eg. a NAS) but I still can’t easily stream music from my phone to the receiver. I’m wondering if anyone has any set up ideas for easy streaming from phone or computer to the AV receiver.
You can get Bluetooth receivers with stereo audio out for dirt cheap on Amazon.
Yeah OP, just get a Bluetooth DAC with RCA jack outputs you can plug directly into the receiver
Oh interesting. What is the range on them? Do you think I can play music from a different room?
I’d say 30-40 feet. Seems to work through walls ok.
Sounds like there’s a headless version of Plexamp that can run on a Pi.
If you use Plex, you would be able to use Plexamp on your computer or phone to play your music on the Pi’s Plexamp.
Or you could get a modern receiver that supports Chromecast and AirPlay and use one of those to stream to the receiver.
Interesting idea. I’ll look into it. Thanks!
A decent solution is to install shairport-sync on the Pi and advertise the service over multicast dns (Apple bonjour protocol). This effectively creates an AirPlay device on the network that’s usable from any iDevice. This had a very high “wife approval factor” when I did something similar at home.
Unfortunately we are mainly Android users in this household :(
I was going to recommend Chromecast Audio, but Google killed that.
Google Home Mini might be a good alternative. You can actually pair it via Bluetooth to an external speaker. Then you can cast directly to it.
I do this. From Android, you have to buy and use “AirMusic”, which is kinda half-assed and flaky, wish there was a better way.
There are bluetooth to AV “adapters”, basically a small device that can be controlled from your phone like a bluetooth speaker and can be connected to your audio system.
I’ve had some success using moOode audio on a Raspberry Pi (included in the Pi Installer I think, but here’s their website in case I’m misremembering). I use it with Roon, which is linked to my streaming service and allows me to stream tracks; but I see it works with Spotify Connect too, so if that’s your service of choice then perhaps this will work for you!
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Damn that thing is expensive but it seems to have everything I’d want. I’ll save this for later in case I want to splurge one day.
