Multi-Room Audio System with Raspberry, Icecast and Volumio

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@ruudvddries

Hi Gé,

I’m looking for a similar solution. Running the Icecast server on my main Volumio setup and if needed/wanted stream it to a second one. Thus, my question, are you able to do two audio_outputs on your Pi2? Can it play local sound, and simultaneous stream to a second pi? If so, what config did you use and how do you choose to use both on the Pi2?

Regards

Ruud

Hi Ruud,
this has been ditched ages ago as I only used it as a proof of concept (and got rid of all my PIs), otherwise I could have shown you the mpd configuration.
With Volumio 2 this is going to be tricky, as the mpd configuration file is handled by volumio.
Anything you add or change is potentially lost when Volumio decides to rewrite the config.

I’m waiting with multiroom until I move house. By then snapcast should be implemented in Volumio (so I hope) .
Still, the icecast approach is a nice one, but difficult to tell if the receivers are really in sync when the rooms are further apart (as in my case).
-Gé-