Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Apple airtunes

[Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>]

Hi,

2010/8/10 Matt Novenstern <mnovenstern students colgate edu>:
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 14:52 +0100, Andy Clough wrote:
>> Is it possible to use rhythmbox to connect to my speakers via apple’s
>> airport express (airtunes).
>
> If your system is using pulseaudio for sound playback (like many modern
> linux distros do by default), you can install the raop module which
> allows you to stream *anything* you're playing to the airport speakers.
> I've used it myself and remember it working fine.
>

For what it's worth, the experience can be suboptimal with the raop
module currently present in pulseaudio (I experience lots of
stuttering in the audio). Work is underway for a new pulseaudio sink
using a better way of streaming audio to the airport express device,
see http://blog.jasondonenfeld.com/332

Christophe