Shairport / Mopidy "Hand off" audio? how to switch from one to the other?

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@Raphael_Huber

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run_this_before_play_begins = mpc stop;

Take that option, search on here for it, gives

Mopidy Multiple Instances - Integration with Shairport-sync

I finally figured out how to get two instances of both mopidy and shairport-sync running on pi-musicbox on a pi3 with two usb sound cards. My only issue is getting shairport-sync2 to stop mopidy when it is playing a stream and there is a request to stream via shairport-sync. Session control is set to run_this_before_play_begins = “usr/bin/mpc stop” in the second config file, like the first. With two instances of mopidy running, how do I specify mpc to stop the second instance of mopidy to sha…

You could try the verison in that thread a go. Giving the full path seems like a good idea. Not ending with a semicolon seem alike a good idea. Using quotes seems like a good idea.