With an iPhone, you can stream your spotify music to an airplay receiver. Unfortunately I have a nice sound system that does not support Airplay but only DLNA. To overcome this issue I've created a bridge between Airplay and DLNA.
There are several ways to create such a bridge. The goal is to run it on an ARM powered NAS that is powered on all time. One way of creating this bride is using shairport and the pulse audio system, but because I had a hard time configuring that under Ubuntu, I chose another, more lightweight, method. This method uses the fifo based output of shairport.
I've used the lightweight UPNP server, called ushare, and added support for sharing data supplied by shairport. Basically, ushare recognizes the shairport fifo as an input file. For playback compatibility, a WAV header is placed in front of the streaming data.
I've placed the modified version of ushare on github, called airushare. The readme over there contains info on how to start both applications. Check https://github.com/PieVo/airushare for the changes I have made. Let me know if you need help getting it running.
There are several ways to create such a bridge. The goal is to run it on an ARM powered NAS that is powered on all time. One way of creating this bride is using shairport and the pulse audio system, but because I had a hard time configuring that under Ubuntu, I chose another, more lightweight, method. This method uses the fifo based output of shairport.
I've used the lightweight UPNP server, called ushare, and added support for sharing data supplied by shairport. Basically, ushare recognizes the shairport fifo as an input file. For playback compatibility, a WAV header is placed in front of the streaming data.
I've placed the modified version of ushare on github, called airushare. The readme over there contains info on how to start both applications. Check https://github.com/PieVo/airushare for the changes I have made. Let me know if you need help getting it running.
