How to get SongCast working

Pi MusicBox
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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 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

2

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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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.