[pulseaudio-discuss] raop on gentoo+systemd

[SGT. Garcia]

On Nov 06  23:14 +0100, Martin Blanchard wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 15:43 -0400, SGT. Garcia wrote:
> > hello,
> > i've got an airport express and i would like to use it as an output sound
> > device on this linux box. i read somewhere that pa would do this using its
> > raop module. i have added these lines in /etc/pulse/system.pa:
> 
> What kind of AirPort Express is it? 1st or 2nd generation? This page may
> help you if you have no idea :
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Express
> 

going by this:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do

i have:
AirPort Express 802.11n (2nd Generation)

> > load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1/32
> > #load-module module-raop-discover
> > load-module module-raop-sink server=192.168.1.218
> > 
> > pa doesn't have avahi support btw.
> 
> Is this the regular pulseaudio or did you build any particular
> branch/repo?
>

5.0-r2, doesn't matter i guess.

> Anyway, you may want to try to build & test this
> branch :https://github.com/colinleroy/pulseaudio
> It contains a refreshed implementation of pulseaudio's RAOP client. You
> will, hopefully, get better results, especially if you have a recent
> AirPort Express.

have those changes pushed here:
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio.git

i've found an old ebuild (gentoo's build system) for it. i could also
change the repo to colinleroy's too if need be but rather leave the
maintenance of the ebuild for upstream.

> If you do so, please share your feedbacks here. Thanks!

indeed.