Does this support local streaming?

[thereal-partyshark]

Apologies if I am missing it, but can this stream over a network? Would love to listen to records wireless on my network. I currently am using Darkice and Icecast to achieve this on my Pi 4B :)! Appreciate the work here. This is exactly what I was hoping to build for myself.

[palavido-dev]

Hey! Great question. Right now the app supports a few different playback paths:

• AirPlay -- stream live from the turntable to any AirPlay receiver (Apple TV, HomePod, AirPlay-enabled speakers, etc.)
• Bluetooth -- pair with any Bluetooth speaker directly from the Pi
• This Device -- play through whatever audio output is connected to the Pi itself (e.g. a HiFiBerry DAC into powered speakers)
• Browser playback -- the web UI has a built-in player that streams recorded albums from any device on your network

What it does not have today is a raw HTTP audio stream like Icecast. So if you are looking for something where you point VLC or another player at a URL and get a live stream of the turntable, that is not built in yet.

That said, it is an interesting idea. Since we already have the live PCM data flowing through the app, exposing an Icecast-compatible endpoint (or even just a simple HTTP chunked audio stream) would be a natural extension. The main questions would be around format (MP3 for compatibility vs AAC for quality), latency tradeoffs, and whether it needs to be a persistent stream or something that spins up on demand.

If you can share a bit more about your use case, that would help a lot:

• What clients are you listening on? (phones, laptops, Sonos, network receivers, etc.)
• Is it the live turntable feed you want streamed, or more about playing back already-recorded albums remotely?
• How important is low latency vs. broad device compatibility?

Happy to explore this if there is enough interest. Would be great if someone with a Darkice/Icecast setup could help test since I do not have one running myself.

[palavido-dev]

Very cool! Let me know if you hit any snags or want me to try coding anything up. I haven't added much recently, I've just been actively using what I made. I've gotten about 2/3 of the way through recording my collection so far. Just doing a few albums a day. I did add a converter to create m4a versions of the albums/songs so I could load them onto my phone and listen in my car or when out and about. Good luck, let me know how it goes.

[thereal-partyshark]

I am finally able to view the app on 8080! Now, here is where the headache comes in.

Setup

• Turntable audio is going into Schiit Mani2.
• Mani 2 has RCA to 3.5mm into HIFI Dac
• RCA out from Hifi to Aiwa NSX-3200 stereo Video/Aux In

Goals:

• Record vinyl records in vinyl-airplay
• At the same time, stream vinyl playing to a network URL
• OPTIONAL At the same time (if i turn my stereo on) listen to the record via the RCA out on the DAC. I can always just unplug stuff and listen locally, but i'd like to record and playback. (currently cant get audio out of the DAC to speakers for some reason)

I have tried:

• Loopback devices. Looks like Rpi kernal cant really handle routing one devices to more than on loopback device -_-
• dsnoop. No matter what I tried couldnt get this method to work.
• Jack. Never used this before, but it seems to have the same issue as loopback.

Would appreciate any help, guidance, or advice! Thanks

[palavido-dev]

Glad you're past install. Let me untangle the three goals separately, because each one has a different answer.

Recording in vinyl-airplay: this is the core path and should "just work" once the right device is picked in Settings → Audio Input.

Streaming to a network URL (HTTP/Icecast style): flagging this up front. vinyl-airplay does not currently have a raw HTTP/Icecast stream output. It can push live audio to AirPlay, Bluetooth, the Pi's local speakers, or the in-browser player on any device on your network, but it doesn't expose a stream URL you can point Darkice/VLC at. So if you want to keep the Darkice + Icecast pipeline running alongside vinyl-airplay, that's the multi-consumer ALSA problem you've been hitting with loopback/dsnoop/JACK. If you'd rather vinyl-airplay grow a native HTTP stream output so the whole thing collapses into one app, drop that into Discussion #16 or open an issue and I'll move it up the list. Given enough interest, I've been thinking about adding it anyway.

Playback to the Aiwa via the DAC's RCA out: the cheapest, most reliable answer is a hardware Y-splitter at the Mani 2 output. Send one branch into the DAC input (for vinyl-airplay) and the other branch straight into the Aiwa's Aux. About $10 in cables, no software routing, and the monitor path stays purely analog, which is what you want for vinyl listening anyway.

If you'd rather drive the Aiwa from the DAC's RCA output through software, vinyl-airplay can do that natively: set Audio Input and Audio Output both to the DAC. The app captures, applies EQ, and plays back through the same hardware. No loopback or JACK needed; the pipeline handles the fan-out internally. But the fact that you currently can't get audio out of the DAC to speakers suggests the output chain isn't working yet, independent of the multi-consumer question. A few things that would help pin that down:

1. What's the specific DAC (model name)?
2. In Settings, does the DAC show up in both Audio Input and Audio Output dropdowns?
3. If you set "This Device" as the output and press play on a previously recorded album, does the Aiwa get audio? That isolates output chain (Pi → DAC → Aiwa) from capture chain.
4. Which Pi OS are you on? Bookworm (Debian 12) defaults to PipeWire, which changes the multi-consumer routing story considerably.

Once we know which link is dark, we can fix that one piece and you skip the ALSA loopback work for the speaker goal. The Icecast goal we can handle separately depending on which path you want.

[palavido-dev]

Just a heads up, I opened up a discussion post specifically for the http streaming idea. I think it is definitely worth incorporating. This particular task is a bit daunting for me so I'm going to have Claude help me out with implementing. I've had mixed results with Claude in the past with coding, so there may be some back and forth to get it right, but it'll hopefully be faster than waiting on me to get 100% up to speed and manually code it myself.

[thereal-partyshark]

1. HiFiBerry DAC2 ADC Pro
2. In the app's settings or the Pi's? The app pnly has "Default Device" and "Audio Input" with the Hifiberry
3. See above
4. Debian 13.

I too am attempting to leverage the various agents will varying degrees of results. Appreciate your help. I only have weekends to spend on this but I'll keep cracking away. Also, lmk if I am conflating multiple things that should be their own discussions. I'm not totally up to speed with the best practices of GH.

UPDATE: Lots of user error on my end. tl;dr, on a recent flash of the SD i neglected to update the config files for the Hifi hat. I have local playback on my stereo fully functional