# How to get SongCast working

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/how-to-get-songcast-working/502>\
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)\
**Created:** [December 28, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/how-to-get-songcast-working/502 "2014-12-28T19:27:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jochen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jochen/32/473_2.png) [@jochen](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jochen)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/how-to-get-songcast-working/502/1 "2014-12-28T19:27:25Z")

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Hi,

in version 0.9.0 of the upmpdcli (which is currently used by musicbox for upnp streaming) support for SongCast was added. With Songcast, the whole sound output from a PC can be streamed to a songcast receiver.

I’ve tried to get it to work based on the description on the upmpdcli website, but I did not get it to work.

I followed the description on [http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/sc2mpd.html](http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/upmpdcli/sc2mpd.html) and was able to compile the binary, but in the SongCast program on my PC the musicbox was not discovered as possible target.

Sounds like a very interesting feature . I personally have been looking for something like this for years as I always wanted to have an easy way to stream the PC sound output to my stereo without a lot of fuzz.

DId anyone try it out yet?

Jochen

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**Author:** ![adamcik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/adamcik/32/5_2.png) [@adamcik](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/adamcik)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/how-to-get-songcast-working/502/2 "2015-02-10T23:40:37Z")

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Currently mopidy, which pimusicbox uses for playing music only supports local playback on the raspi. So there isn’t any simple way to stream that to the songcast target.

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**Author:** ![jochen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jochen/32/473_2.png) [@jochen](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jochen)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2015, 7:07am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/how-to-get-songcast-working/502/3 "2015-02-13T07:07:13Z")

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Oh, it would be the other way around. The musicbox would be the target and the PC the source.  
Similar as the “Stream what you hear” software but not depending on DLNA.

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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2564_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/how-to-get-songcast-working/502/4 "2026-02-19T11:47:48Z")

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