configureĬFLAGS: -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/alsa -D_REENTRANT This will install shairport into /usr/sbin and make it available to the system / root user. Build & install Shairport 'as root' and have it launch on system startup ~ $ git clone ~ $ cd ~/perl-net-sdp $ perl ~/perl-net-sdp $ sudo ~/perl-net-sdp $ sudo. ~ $ sudo apt-get install git libao-dev libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libwww-perl avahi-utils libmodule-build-perl libasound2-dev libpulse-dev Install Perl Net-SDPĪpparently a change in IOS 6 requires this module to be installed or else shairport will crash. Shairport requires perl and a handful of other packages from the repo in order to install successfully. ~ $ sudo apt-get ~ $ sudo apt-get upgrade Install Shairport prerequisites This is always smart to run with new linux systems. Make sure your Raspberry Pi is up-to-date This section is a blend of Trouch & Burgess' write-ups.

Get linux to recognize, prefer, and use the USB sound card.

Setup Shairport on your Raspberry Pi as a daemon.

You're comfortable opening up a terminal shell on your Raspberry Pi via ssh.

Networking is setup and working fine on your Pi.

You have a Raspberry Pi and compatible USB soundcard.

I had an M-Audio Mobile Pre laying around that was acting as a dummy mixer for the KRK's anyway, so I decided to dive in and setup wireless Hi-Fi audio on my Raspberry Pi. Since the culprit is suspected to be a 'dirty' PWM, I thought that the option of using an external USB sound card would amend the white noise problem and offer me CD-quality audio to boot. I cannot point the finger at the amazing contributors to shairport though, as they've reverse-engineered something that I would take me weeks to wrap my brain around. I would venture to guess that shairport doesn't clean up and silence the audio signal when playback is interrupted because the authors didn't care to accomodate a shitty PWM-based DAC. I suspected the software at fault was shairport, an open-source reverse engineering of Apple's AirPlay codec. To add insult to injury, the stereo jack would often output deafeningly-loud white noise if you were unlucky when stopping a track.

The sound quality is far from Hi-Fi and is shameful to run through my KRK monitors. In the footnotes of Jordan Burgess' fantastic piece on the topic, he writes that sound quality out of the Pi's 3.5mm stereo jack suffers because the Pi's hardware uses pulse wave modulation to output a signal to the jack.

Luckily, nerds & neckbeards with smarts beyond the scope of my own ability have done the heavily lifting necessary to turn a Raspberry Pi into a cheap AirPlay receiver. Now updated with latest Shairport libs, depedencies, and installation instructions.Īfter getting my Raspberry Pi last week, I set out to make it do something useful in the interim before a more compelling creative lightning bolt hits me.

Install pulseaudio raspberry pi