[SOLVED] Streaming from linux desktop

[gebi1984]

Hi (sorry maybe a FAQ)

I'm trying to get audio-streaming from my Ubuntu desktop 23.10 to moOde on a Pi4. UPnP Client for MPD is enabled. How to configure the desktop to stream
to the UPnP client? As newer Ubuntu releases are using Pipewire this is not so straigtforward to do...maybe over pulseaudio or do I need a UPnP server,  or is there a different solution out there?

best
gebi

[Tim Curtis]

What do you mean by "audio-streaming"?
What are the music sources (files, radio stations)?
Where are the music sources located (NAS, Pi, Ubuntu box, Cloud)?

[gebi1984]

What do you mean by "audio-streaming"?
What are the music sources (files, radio stations)?
Where are the music sources located (NAS, Pi, Ubuntu box, Cloud)?

...just the audio output from the desktop - whatever SW is in use. The sound-sever from the desktop (pipewire) needs to be configured in a way to see a service (UPnP,airplay..?) from MoOde.

[Tim Curtis]

You might have better luck asking on the Ubuntu Forums.

[TheOldPresbyope]

@gebi1984

Internet search engines are your friends. A quick search on "ubuntu music streaming" got me enough hits to keep one busy with different more-or-less packaged approaches or with the usual Linux hackery. 

Which approach (and hence which protocol) to choose? That's very much up to you since it's your specific use case.

Regards,
Kent

[gebi1984]

You might have better luck asking on the Ubuntu Forums.

Thanks, Tim,


got it running with Airplay.

Steps to do:

Enable Airplay in the Renderers section of moOde.

On the Ubuntu box (23.10):

sudo apt install pulseaudio-module-raop

and load this module with:

pactl load-module module-raop-discover

Now in the gnome sound setting, you see an Airplay output device.

To make this permanent I used the program: 'Startup Application' and put the above command in as an argument.
There are documented ways to load modules in Pipewire, but this did not work for me.

IMHO: it is a very common use case to stream from the linux desktop. May this tip is of help to others.

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gebi

happy user of the ProtoDAC

[Tim Curtis]

You might have better luck asking on the Ubuntu Forums.

Thanks, Tim,


got it running with Airplay.

Steps to do:

Enable Airplay in the Renderers section of moOde.

On the Ubuntu box (23.10):

sudo apt install pulseaudio-module-raop

and load this module with:

pactl load-module module-raop-discover

Now in the gnome sound setting, you see an Airplay output device.

To make this permanent I used the program: 'Startup Application' and put the above command in as an argument.
There are documented ways to load modules in Pipewire, but this did not work for me.

IMHO: it is a very common use case to stream from the linux desktop. May this tip is of help to others.

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gebi

happy user of the ProtoDAC

Pretty cool :-)

[JazzVinyl]

Helpful! I have not tried it yet, but will.

Appreciate the info!