Snapcast

BadAix

About this app

Android port of the Snapcast client: https://github.com/badaix/snapcast
This App is not meant for productive use and will only run when you have a Snapserver installed in your local network.

Snapcast is a multi-room client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. It's not a standalone player, but an extension that turns your existing audio player into a Sonos-like multi-room solution.
The server's audio input is a named pipe /tmp/snapfifo. All data that is fed into this file will be send to the connected clients. One of the most generic ways to use Snapcast is in conjunction with the music player daemon (MPD) or Mopidy, which can be configured to use a named pipe as audio output.

Ratings and reviews

Just plain awesome! This is by far the quickest and easiest method out there to achieve a SONOS-like multiroom-synced audio solution for a fraction of the price. But it does not end there, as this app and its companion server software (which happens to be available for all sorts of platforms; including but not limited to Docker and the popular PiMusicBox OS) boast a ton of other features that prove to be highly valuable to both newbies in this field and advanced users and use cases alike. 5/5 ✅

Works perfectly. User interface perhaps a bit odd, but what it does, it does excellently. (Power consumption under 1% if not casting to the phone itself: the review complaining about this is likely not reporting a common problem. Maybe a bug, but it's just as likely to be a bug in Android as in the app.)

Frequently encounters a connection reset (likely TCP RST) and doesn't try to recover, forcing me to reopen the app a second time. This gets to be quite annoying but otherwise the app works well.

What's new

- Update Snapclient binary to v0.27.0
- Add Themed app icon