Problems with PulseAudio + Airplay

[Member RobK88]

I would like to play my music through my stereo using Apple’s Airplay (via my AppleTV).

From what I understand, there are very few ways of doing this in Linux. The most popular way appears to be using the PulseAudio sound server.

I installed the following packages:

pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-raop
pulseaudio-module-zeroconf
paprefs
pavucontrol
pasystray

I followed the instructions at:
https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/1702/using-airplay-with-noise?newreg=f0e587a7edb0470298482ab0a6b6e698

The most important steps are:

1. Run paprefs. (antiX installs in the menu under Applications — Preferences. Then click on PulseAudio Preferences).
2. Check the two options under Network Access.
3. Reboot the PC.
4. Open a Terminal and run “pulseaudio –start”
5. Play some music.
5. Run PulseAudio Volume Control (Found under Applications — Multimedia).
6. Under Playback, select your Airplay device. (e.g. AppleTV or Airport Express).

It does not appear to work. My AppleTV does show up in the menus of the Pulse Audio Volume Control.
I can select it but nothing happens and I hear no audio.

(Pulse Audio is working. If I select “Built In Audio Analog Stereo” in the PulseAudio Volume Control, I can hear my music).

PulseAudio also appears to properly detect my AppleTV and its IP address. See below:

pactl list short modules | grep raop
10	module-raop-discover		
22	module-raop-sink	server=[192.168.1.106]:7000 sink_name=raop_output.Apple-TV-3.local sink_properties='device.description="Apple TV" device.model="AppleTV3,1"' protocol=UDP encryption=none codec=ALAC latency_msec=2000	
23	module-raop-sink	server=[192.168.1.106]:7000 sink_name=raop_output.Apple-TV-3.local sink_properties='device.description="Apple TV" device.model="AppleTV3,1"' protocol=UDP encryption=none codec=ALAC latency_msec=2000

I do not know why my AppleTV appears twice.

I know it is not a router problem. I can play music from my Apple Mac on the same network using Apple Airplay / AppleTV through my stereo.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get Apple AirPlay to work properly in AntiX?

P.S. Also please let me know how I can start pulseaudio automatically at boot-up in antiX. PulseAudio does not show up in the startup services in the antiX Control Panel.

Any ideas??

• This topic was modified 3 years ago by RobK88.
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RobK88 wrote:

P.S. Also please let me know how I can start pulseaudio automatically at boot-up in antiX. PulseAudio does not show up in the startup services in the antiX Control Panel.

Xecure wrote:

2. Make pulseaudio launch on startup
Edit startuo file
geany ~/.desktop-session/startup
Add a line that launches pulseaudio

#launch pulseaudio Daemon on startup
pulseaudio -D &

Save and exit

I have no idea about apple devices, so I cannot help with the rest. Make sure you also check what the individual program that is playing the audio is using the correct audio autput in pavucontrol.

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[Member RobK88]

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Thanks. I filed an upstream bug.
See
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/879

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by RobK88.

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