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Here’s a blog about realizing the AirPlay Funtion on a Raspberry Pi.

The equipments I used are:

Raspberry * 1;
Macbook Pro * 1;
Ipad * 1;
Earphone * 1;

So, with above equipments got ready, Let’s update the software source first.

apt-get update

The second step is to change the audio output settings. As AirPlay have default settings(HDMI), since the we don’t have a external display here, so change the settings to only output audio here.

amixer cset numid=3 1

Now it’s the turn of dealing with software on Linux of my Raspberry Pi. Firstly install the shairport dependencies pack here.

apt-get install git libao-dev libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libwww-perl avahi-utils libmodule-build-perl

The next step is to install the Perl NET-SDP pack cause the iOS system requires this pack to support the airplay function. Using the following command line instruction:

git clone https://github.com/njh/perl-net-sdp.git perl-net-sdp

Then

cd perl-net-sdp
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

OK, now we can install the shairport, which is an airplay emulator can help us finish the job. Using

cd ../

to back to the upper directory，running following instructions in order:

git clone https://github.com/hendrikw82/shairport.git

cd shairport
make

Well done! We can start the airplay service right now! Here AirPrince is the name of my AirPlay device(Raspberry in this situation).

./shairport.pl -a AirPrince

Turn on WIFI on iPad to search AirPlay devices for airplaying, and plug the earphone in the Raspberry Pi for enjoying the airplayed music now!

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Written on April 17, 2015

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