badaix/snapcast
Snapcast
Snapcast is a multiroom audio streaming system designed to broadcast synchronized high-fidelity audio from a central server to multiple network clients. It functions as a TCP audio distribution server that captures raw audio sources and distributes them to synchronous network audio players.
The system utilizes networked clock synchronization to coordinate timing between devices, ensuring simultaneous playback across different physical locations without echo or delay. It includes a remote audio playback controller to manage volume, mute status, and stream assignments via HTTP or WebSockets.
The software provides zone-based audio routing to organize speakers into logical groups, allowing different audio streams to be played in specific rooms. It also features a sample-rate conversion engine and audio stream resampling to match the hardware capabilities of connected playback devices.
Features
- Audio Playback Synchronization - Coordinates timing between server and clients to ensure simultaneous audio playback across different physical locations.
- Zone-Based Audio Routing - Organizes speakers into logical groups allowing different audio streams to be played in specific rooms.
- Audio Streaming Engines - Provides a server for delivering high-quality audio streams to multiple clients across a home or office network.
- Audio Stream Synchronizers - Aligns and synchronizes multiple audio streams to ensure simultaneous playback across different rooms.
- Audio Source Captures - Reads raw audio data from files, sockets, or hardware devices for distribution to network clients.
- Audio Streaming Servers - Implements a self-hosted server for broadcasting high-fidelity audio to multiple networked clients.
- Synchronous Network Players - Implements a network-based player that coordinates timing to ensure simultaneous audio playback without echo.
- Audio Streaming Servers - Implements a dedicated server that captures raw audio sources and streams them over network sockets.
- Audio Output Synchronization - Aligns playback timing across multiple networked devices to eliminate echo and timing delays.
- Audio Group Management - Organizes network speakers into groups for collective playback and volume control.
- Stream Resampling - Adjusts the sample rate of incoming audio to match the specific hardware capabilities of client soundcards.
- Custom Audio Distribution - Captures raw audio from hardware or files and distributes it to multiple network endpoints with real-time resampling.
- Audio Sample Rate Standardization - Includes an engine that adjusts audio stream frequencies to match the hardware capabilities of connected devices.
- Playback Controllers - Provides a remote interface to manage volume, mute status, and stream assignments via HTTP or WebSockets.
- Remote Audio Controllers - Provides a control interface for managing volume, mute status, and stream assignments via HTTP or WebSockets.
- Audio Streaming - Synchronous multi-room audio streaming server.
