Did this hack myself a month or two ago - I go the XBMC route (openElec) on the Pi with Airfoil for Windows to stream Spotify. That combination is finicky - sometimes requires one or two connects. When spotify releases a libspotify compiled for the right ARM architecture (something about floating point?) I'm going to run http://www.mopidy.com/

The disadvantage of the headphone port of the Raspberry Pi is that it used to put out absolutely awful sound, but that may have improved. Using shairport also has bugs - the audio output from the script sometimes has pops and after about 10 or 20 minutes will randomly disconnect.

Why would you do this rather than buy an Airport Express? The cost of the Raspberry Pi, wifi adapter and a basic USB soundcard add up to as much as the real thing, but you spend hours configuring software and end up with a flakey solution. It's great that you can do this, but why not save time and money by buying the real thing? You also get bit perfect optical output and a pretty decent wireless router.

A note for those attempting to use Ethernet to Airplay mirror:

Your router must allow multicasting between WLAN and Ethernet clients, otherwise your Pi won't show up to iDevices connected via WiFi.

If this is a problem for you (as it was for me) your only solution is attaching a WiFi adapter to your Pi. The consensus for best support, lowest power and tiny footprint is Edimax EW-7811UN (http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003MTTJOY).

I just grabbed an old Linksys WUSB54GS that I had laying around and it played nicely with the Raspberry Pi with little to not effort.

What a coincidence. I did the exact same thing yesterday, following the instructions here: http://trouch.com/2012/08/03/airpi-airplay-audio-with-raspbe.... You really need a USB soundcard for this to be usable though, unfortunately.

This looks like a neat hack. I might attempt something similar at some point.

Somewhat relevant, since many people here are talking about using a USB sound card: I have heard good things [1] about using this hub/dock combo with a Raspberry Pi [2]. Might be overkill for this project but it would give you an all-in-one connection dock for more multi-purpose projects.

[1] http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/Week-of-Mon-20120903/... [2] http://www.microbarn.com/details.aspx?rid=102750

Cool hack. There's real demand for a reasonably priced Airport Express alternative, but it's a shame that the RasPi's DAC isn't up to scratch for HiFi use.

You suggest we follow you on Twitter, yet protect your tweets...

Looks cool! Anyone know any of this for Android? At least for Samsung Note. I want to try to wirelessly stream audio from my Note to my Logitech Z2300.

Is there a way to stream music from a Linux machine to multiple destinations?

Currently I have a notebook with Mint connected to my stereo system for all my music needs. It works nice.

I would love to have the music play in multiple rooms simultaneously. Is it possible? Money is not an issue. I could buy whatever equipment is needed. But I did not hear about any solution yet.

There is a problem with the instructions though; when you get to the:

'Installing Perl Net-SDP'

Section, and type in the third line of code, after git clone, you get this error message: http://pastebin.com/MSrqYYKq

Saying to Contact the author, because there are files missing.

I have contacted the author, and Jordan too.

Does anyone know how to get around this?

I hadn't realized the Airplay keys had been cracked. Last time I looked for something like this they hadn't. I've already bought an extra airport express, but I kinda just want to build this for fun. I'm seeing lots of complaints about the PIs dac. How bad is it?

Does anyone know of a good standalone speaker that this hack could be paired with to make an airplay speaker for smallish spaces? E.g. not a home's main living area where you'd want to use a higher powered stereo system, but perhaps a bedroom or office.

Awesome, Going to try this with my Pi.

I presume that it'll work with the HDMI out into my AV receiver well without the distortion from lack of on-board DAC?

Nice, a low cost a version of the airport express is exactly what the market needs. I wonder why no company has done it so far?

Just trying this now but when I try to run perl Build.PL. I get Build: command not found

Any ideas?

High time i bought the Pi i guess...