[HN Gopher] Airflow - Stream media files directly from macOS to ...
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Airflow - Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices
Author : tiagod
Score : 30 points
Date : 2025-01-29 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| tiagod wrote:
| Thought I'd share this great little app I've been using for a few
| years now.
| la_fayette wrote:
| More often I see two or maybe even more software products with
| the same name. In this case Apache Airflow. The two products
| serve a totally different purpose. I guess for marketing it would
| be better to have a unique name.
| jennyholzer wrote:
| I think it's beneficial for the product's name to be similar to
| AirDrop. How popular is Apache Airflow? Looking at their
| website it seems to be a dead product.
| drawnwren wrote:
| Is this a joke? I'd put Airflow almost on the level of
| postgres in terms of popularity (it's the most popular
| workflow manager).
| VTimofeenko wrote:
| It's in use in _a lot_ of data pipelines.
| lubosm wrote:
| Still, it was only one Google search away.
| nonameiguess wrote:
| It's not even remotely close to a dead product. I work in
| platform-layer consulting where the services are quite often
| for customers who run ML and other data pipelines and Airflow
| is overwhelmingly the most popular DAG orchestration tool
| they're using.
|
| I'm very curious what even gives you that impression. If you
| follow the link to their Github, it's got 38.5k stars, 14.6k
| forks, 3190 contributors, 92 releases, the most recent commit
| is from an hour ago. The most recent release is from last
| month.
| danpalmer wrote:
| Airflow is by far the fastest and most reliable AirPlay
| implementation I've seen. It's lightning fast. Truly excellent.
| The app is also super fast for things like video scrubbing.
|
| I wish the app was a more native feeling UI, and I feel they
| could be doing deeper integration to enable more video playing.
| I'm a little worried that the app is out of development, but
| hoping they keep it going for new versions of macOS and AirPlay.
| mrtesthah wrote:
| > _I 'm a little worried that the app is out of development_
|
| Why? The last app release was Jan 3rd 2025, so about 3 weeks
| ago.
|
| But even if it was older, once an app fulfills is purpose and
| is free of bugs and security holes, does it still need to be
| updated constantly?
| dmd wrote:
| Is there ANY way to send audio from linux to AirPlay speakers? (I
| am NOT asking about making Linux an airplay TARGET, which is what
| Shairport-sync does.) Pulseaudio reportedly used to claim to
| support it, but there are many reports of people trying and none
| of anyone succeeding.
| lxgr wrote:
| If you can stream your audio via Google Cast, there are a few
| Cast -> Airplay bridges. I have one of these running on an RPi
| (I believe [1]), and it's been pretty much fire and forget.
|
| [1] https://github.com/ains/aircast
| dmd wrote:
| That is something lets you _become_ an Airplay device. I want
| to send audio _to_ an Airplay device.
| 1337_420_blaze wrote:
| I've been using this project for a few years
| https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/
| dmd wrote:
| That looks like exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks, I'll
| give it a try!
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