Thank you for the excellent suggestion of using the ALSA loopback
driver. I now have audio streaming remarkably well from my iOS devices
via AirPlay. The only issue is that AirFoil audio steaming from OS X or
Windows is pretty much useless and I was hoping to steam Spotify from a
PC client. This is still a very nice addition to the home media
solution, thanks for all the pointers.




ralphy wrote: 
> I found using a named pipe from shairport with the wave input plugin
> unreliable.
> 
> Instead I loaded the ALSA loopback driver, configured shairport to play
> to the loopback device and then opened the loopback device with the wave
> input plugin.
> 
> You then don't need to make any changes to the wave input plugin.
> 
> Load the loopback driver.
> 
> modprobe snd_aloop
> 
> I then have these two devices.
> 
> Loopback: Loopback PCM (hw:0,0)
> Loopback: Loopback PCM (hw:0,1)
> 
> Add this to shairport.pl command line instead of the named pipe.
> 
> --ao_driver=alsa --ao_devicename=hw:0,0
> 
> Then point the input plugin to the second device.
> 
> wavin:hw:0,1
> 
> Ralphy


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