Need an advice on home zone music system.

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artur.shaik
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Need an advice on home zone music system.

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Hello.

Soon be ready our brand new little flat, so we (my wife and me) decided to create zoned music system with central control.

Some use cases:
  • The same music in all rooms;
    Different music in bedroom and kitchen (for example);
    I'd like to listen Beethoven, while sitting in bedroom and WC :D .
So, may be somebody already have an expirience on multi output system.

I found this http://www.instructables.com/id/Multi-M ... /?ALLSTEPS. Seems can be adapted to my needs.
And I feel that pulseaudio can be finally usefull.

Of course I'd like to have low-cost opensource solution. Glad to here any advices.
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Hi there! Never tried anything like that, but perhaps you can setup a (or more) multimedia servers with Raspberri Pi or similar hardware. There are Linux distros specialized for that like:

https://volumio.org/
http://www.runeaudio.com/
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Re: Need an advice on home zone music system.

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Thank you for reply.

This projects seems to be more like audio source aggregators. In the beginig it can be any old pc I think. I will keep it in a mind for the future. Thank you.

What I interested in for now is, that how to make an audio router for multiple outputs. Could those little usb sound cards be used or they are useless.
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artur.shaik wrote:What I interested in for now is, that how to make an audio router for multiple outputs. Could those little usb sound cards be used or they are useless.
I think these ones are not too bad. I used them for a while.
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CrocoDuck wrote:
artur.shaik wrote:What I interested in for now is, that how to make an audio router for multiple outputs. Could those little usb sound cards be used or they are useless.
I think these ones are not too bad. I used them for a while.
Look nice, but little bit expensive for me. Order it from AliExpress, that is nearer to me, is cheaper though.
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