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Seriously, am I the only person running #upmpdcli with #mpd on #RaspberryPi as a #DLNA renderer on various devices round the house? I'm still very confused by the whole songcast thing, and also how to integrate snapcast receiver function into it.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to connect to a renderer and choose between upmpdcli playback or snapcast receiver.

Even with a project this nerdy, surprised I haven't met any fellow users on this fine fedi.

Hey #RaspberryPi #HifiBerry

Is there anyone else here who has run #Upmpdcli as a music player, and made songcast (synchronous music player for multiple devices, non-Free) work?

Overall I'm pretty happy with it, even without songcast, as the Renderers are solid and remember your playlist - it's quite nicely done. But I really want that whole-house-and-garage audio.

I have managed to sort of get a songcast session going (the control point android app, BubbleDS, requires you to pay to keep it going more than 15 mins, but if it works, I don't mind). But I cannot seem to make it come out the speakers anywhere.

If anyone wants to mess around with this and needs a bit of help with compiling and building or setting up the apt repository, I can give a hand getting your Pi up and running, if you can maybe help me figure out songcast. Hit me up.

So is anyone actually using #upmpdcli?

Yes, I am quite aware that looks like a gibberish hashtag that means nothing, but I assure you, it's a very cool bit of software with a very horrible name. I have previously ranted about this weird proclivity among #MPD adjacent projects to just be as un-musical as possible when choosing a name.

Anyways, this appears possibly questionable, license-wise, but this #OpenHome protocol setup seems much more feature-complete and designed with some actual use cases in mind, if you believe the pretty-impressive documentation though I have not done any real testing yet.

For me, I've already observed that #snapcast works great for multi-room audio, so the acid test is, does #songcast work just as well? Even if it doesn't, we can still integrate snapcast with a few pipes.

But that brings me to my question/idle comment, the docs say that it should have the sc2mpd package in their repo for said songcast setup, and it does not appear to be there. But it might be a different repo I need to install, still working on it.

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