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slimstreamer

SlimStreamer is an audio streaming software for Linux with multi-room functionality. SlimStreamer captures audio playback from ALSA and broadcasts it to connected Squeezebox devices (real or ‘virtual’ like squeezelite).

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What it is

SlimStreamer is an audio streaming software for Linux with multi-room functionality. SlimStreamer captures audio playback from ALSA and broadcasts it to connected Squeezebox devices (real or ‘virtual’ like squeezelite).

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Observed mentions: 2019-05-04 19:49:38 UTC to 2019-05-04 20:26:33 UTC.

012019-05-04 19:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-04 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 4, 19:002019-05-04 20:00:00 UTC to 2019-05-04 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 4, 20:00

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Thanks. > Few questions: how do you 'capture' PCM stream in case of ALSA? It is straight forward to create a PA sink and plug it into PA configuration, but I am wondering about pure ALSA. Good question :) Roc does not implement any special capturing code for ALSA, it just reads from the given device (using SoX currently). The user is supposed to use something like snd-aloop. It would be possible to create a custom ALSA plugin I guess, but we have no plans for that currently. You're right about the transport vs product part. I would prefer to work on the transport. And an ALSA plugin would be a product on top of it so it should be a separate project ideally. Actually, the same is true for our PulseAudio modules. I hope later we will either submit them to upstream or separate into a standalone project. > Disclaimer: I am an author of https:
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//www.github.com/gimesketvirtadieni/slimstreamer Interesting, didn't see it before.
In Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA
This is great staff! Finally there is an Open Source initiative to create a robust transport for sync audio streaming. Existing Open Source solutions that come to my mind (like SlimProto, SnapCast, ffmpeg) focus on providing 'a product' rather than a reusable 'transport'. Few questions: how do you 'capture' PCM stream in case of ALSA? It is straight forward to create a PA sink and plug it into PA configuration, but I am wondering about pure ALSA. Disclaimer: I am an author of https://www.github.com/gimesketvirtadieni/slimstreamer
In Show HN: Working on a new network transport for PulseAudio and ALSA

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