[HN Gopher] Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server - AirPlay to an iOS De...
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Show HN: AirAP AirPlay server - AirPlay to an iOS Device
I made AirAP because I wanted a simple way to play sound from my
Mac Mini when my speaker broke. But it's got a ton of other uses
too, like testing how audio sounds like on different devices, or
repurposing old wired speakers. This was incredibly fun to make -
can't wait for you all to see it!
Author : neon443
Score : 113 points
Date : 2025-06-03 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| LowResHusband wrote:
| That's interesting! Does it work for streaming video or just
| audio? Sometimes I'd love to AirPlay from my video editing
| software to my iPhone to check how it looks on the smaller
| screen, checking colors and overall appearance.
| zlies wrote:
| Nice work! Do you think that it is possible to port this to
| watchOS?
| bri3d wrote:
| It's just a thin wrapper for https://github.com/qasim/Airstream
| (I think it's very lame that the README doesn't mention this),
| which I think would work in a watchOS app although I'm not 100%
| sure it would get approved.
| bilekas wrote:
| This is actually something I've been looking for for a while,
| through some workarounds with jelkyfin and others I've been able
| to navigate something but this seems promising.
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| I've got a few questions maybe later with the protocols and stuff
| but so far from initial look, it seems super promising.
|
| Nice job really!
| Aurornis wrote:
| This is cool, but like the other comment said I think it would be
| prudent to mention in the README that this uses the Airstream
| project for the AirPlay implementation:
| https://github.com/qasim/Airstream
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| I thought this was a new Airplay implementation from the way it
| was described, but then I looked at the source code and realized
| there wasn't much there. Nothing wrong with wrapping a library,
| but it's nice to mention the technologies used and set
| expectations.
| yunohn wrote:
| Libraries are made to be used as the base for the actual
| application. I checked your GitHub link - no clue how I'd use
| it without coding an entire solution.
| planetpluta wrote:
| A lot of apps allow you to AirPlay to multiple devices at once --
| would be neat to put this on a bunch of iphones to simultaneously
| play music
| varenc wrote:
| I'm impressed this is so instantly installable via test flight! I
| have a suspicion Apple my pull this soon.
| bound008 wrote:
| Thank you so much for checking something off of my todo list!
|
| Apple TV lets you share with two sets of apple headphones, which
| is awesome... but I wanted a way to:
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| * Share to more than two sets * Extend coverage past the (very
| generous) bluetooth range of AirPods. * Have lossless (albeit
| 44khz/16bit) wireless audio with audiophile headphones.
|
| I was considering using an esp32, but so happy this exists now!
| Thanks!
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