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[Feature Request] - update shairport to support Airplay 2 #32

Open schmurtzm opened 2 years ago

schmurtzm commented 2 years ago

Hi, the developpement branch of Shairport now supports airplay 2.

Airplay 2 is interesting for the users thanks to the multiroom support. It offers for example the possbility to sync a playback between volumio and a recent Sonos speaker or an HomePod.

Even if shairport is careful on the support of airplay2 it works very well on HifiBerry since few months, users appreciate it. I have tested by myself with a great satisfaction (multiroom sync is good, no audio latency for video and covers are now displayed by shairport).

On moode users start to install it manually (seems to still working as the original shairport compiled for the os so the switch to enable/disable it still working).

I hope Volumio will follow soon ;)

(May be it could be implemented as an optional beta feature in a first time ?)

Thank you.

wildekek commented 2 years ago

I've been running the dev-branch of Shairport-sync with Airplay2 support for a few months now, and I run into way less client compatibility issues than when I was using Airplay1. Would recommend implementing this in Volumio3 10/10.

ankaerith commented 3 months ago

Airplay 2 has been in the stable release since Oct 2022. https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/releases/tag/4.1

4.3.2 has been out since Oct 2023.

Airplay 2 just requires a different build: https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/blob/master/BUILD.md

Could we get this added?