Enable autodiscover AirPlay Client support on Arch Linux ( like on macOS )

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Enable autodiscover AirPlay Client support on Arch Linux ( like on macOS )

Step 1

Install required dependencies

$ pacman -S avahi pulseaudio-zeroconf

Step 2

Enable and Start Avahi daemon

$ systemctl enable --now avahi-daemon.service

Step 3

Enable the required module on Pulseaudio ( paste this at the end of /etc/pulse/default.pa ):

### Enable AirPlay support
load-module module-raop-discover

Step 4

Restart Pulseaudio:

$ systemctl --user restart pulseaudio.service

Step 5

If everything worked fine you should be able to autodiscover all your AirPlay devices and connect to them.

Enjoy!

Hello, I'm running last version of Manjaro, follow your instructions and have my device recognized, connected but no sound is passed through. In Pulse I have the control volume bars showing that sound is entering that channel. It's not a device problem because I can connect with other PC and phones and hear the audio. I'm using moode_airplay on a raspberry pi3. Thanks in advance.

@demmaone: I wish I could help you, that's all on PulseAudio. You need to approach either the module author or the PulseAudio team to understand what is going on. It could also be the module is deprecated and your device doesn't accept its protocol. Best shot I can suggest is check the logs and try to get a picture of what is going on.

@julianxhokaxhiu Thanks for your answer, I will try what you said. I have a lot of experience but I'm new to Linux, trying to make the final switch once for all.

Hi since the last updates pulseaudio.service fails to load module-raop-sink.so. Says module not found

Hi since the last updates pulseaudio.service fails to load module-raop-sink.so. Says module not found

Hi, thanks for the feedback although I'm not sure where the issue is. The module seems to be in place on the relative package: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pulseaudio-zeroconf/

Double check that you have the correct version of the package :)

Hi since the last updates pulseaudio.service fails to load module-raop-sink.so. Says module not found

Hi, thanks for the feedback although I'm not sure where the issue is. The module seems to be in place on the relative package: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/pulseaudio-zeroconf/

Double check that you have the correct version of the package :)

I've discovered that with a recent update pulseaudio-zeroconf has been split into other packages and now you need to install pulseaudio-rtp. However, after installing that package and restarting the services, the Airplay device now shows up but if I select it as audio output and try to stream audio to it, it just disappear and output is switched back to my laptop speakers. I've tried also with another Arch Linux laptop but I get the same result.
All was working fine before latest update.

See here:
archlinux/svntogit-packages@2ee4411#diff-8d0411b338c83cd8cd8ad9d9db127101

I've discovered that with a recent update pulseaudio-zeroconf has been split into other packages and now you need to install pulseaudio-rtp. However, after installing that package and restarting the services, the Airplay device now shows up but if I select it as audio output and try to stream audio to it, it just disappear and output is switched back to my laptop speakers. I've tried also with another Arch Linux laptop but I get the same result.
All was working fine before latest update.

I had the same issue but since the latest update everything is back to normal !

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pulse-15.99.1+dfsg1 /usr/lib/pulse-15.99

pactl load-module module-raop-discover