If someone has a family plan, presumably we can run 5 instances of Spotify on the network, but each instance needs its own device with its own audio output.
If I have a mixer, or a multi-input amp then I could mix the inputs and route them to wherever…but it seems like having a single device for each instance is inefficient.
What’s a solution to be able to tap into multiple music sources and route them selectively throughout the house without using proprietary cloud devices.
I’m wiring up the house with hidden speakers and centralizing the distribution of audio with a multi-zone amplifier.
Hello, I allow returning to this subject
My music is stored on a Synology NAS and I use DS Audio
I would like to have multi instance of volumio on one machine to go to an 8 zones amplifier whis a audio card scarlett for exemple
Do you have solutions on linux or windows?
because installing windows for install Virtualbox and then installing 8 windows to install 8 volumio is maybe heavy ?
thank you for help
I made a guide here for installing Volumio under Proxmox which in theory would work for that.
Each instance will need to have an entire USB controller or PCI-E slot (with either a USB card or PCI-E DAC) passed through to it. Any standard motherboard from the last 10 years with either a M.2 or PCI-E 1x slot for a Wi-Fi card should be capable of running at least 4 instances, 5 if you’re OK with using the on-board audio controller.
If you have an old PC lying around then running multiple instances of Volumio on it like this would be a good option, but if you don’t then you may be better off with a fleet of RasPis