mikebrady
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8 years ago Thanks for the post, and it's great that you've had success with Shairport Sync.
There are no plans to do PulseAudio integration at present. This is partly driven by a need to focus on getting the software to work really well on alsa. There is a PulseAudio backend in Shairport Sync right now, but it is based on the simple interface and is completely unsuitable, IMHO, for further development. A fully-featuredPulseAudio back end is needed, and it might even require changes to Shairport Sync's backend arrangements. The really crucial thing is for PulseAudio to be able to give a real-time and reliable indication of latency to Shairport Sync. I think it would be quite a lot of effort to get that functionality, but I'm not a PulseAudio guy.
biogerm
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JustinYuan94
Hey,
first of all thanks for this great project! I got it working very well to stream via Airplay to my BT speakers. But I would really like to get it working with Pulseaudio because I want to have multiple audio sources mix them together with priority (e.g. Amazon Echo API > AirPlay > MPD with nice fading effect for each switch) and process them through to multiple audio devices (a set BT speaker in different rooms). Yeah it's a quite ambitious goal :) I can't see a good possibility in Alsa to accomplish this and would prefer to use Pulseaudio but can't get it working so far with shairport-sync. The only way I didn't tested so far was the fifo-pipe output which I may can get into Pulseaudio somehow (have to research on that). The sideproblem with the lack of Pulseaudio support is that I have to use Bluez 4.x instead of 5 because Bluez 5 dropped Alsa support (related: https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/issues/200#issuecomment-192982716 )
TL;DR: Is there a working Pulseaudio integration planned? Or did I missed it and I can't just configure it properly for Pulseaudio?