This repository contains two setups:
- Mopidy with audio streaming across a network using Icecast;
- Mopidy with synchronized multi-room audio streaming using Snapcast;
Mopidy is a music server and handles streaming services such as TuneIn, Spotify, Local Files and is extensible to other services. Iris is the frontend extension chosen for Mopidy because is responsive, user-friendly and beautifully designed.
This setup streams music from a chosen source and stream it via an Icecast Server, making the stream accessible network wide or internet wide in case you want to expose your server, behind a reverse proxy, for example. Icecast doesn't synchronize the listeners/clients so, although this setup can be used to a multi-room scenario, it won't deliver the perfect experience (Mopidy with Snapcast is made for that). A good use is to stream music for an internet radio.
In this setup, Mopidy-Iris is controlled at: http://<your-server-ip>:6681 and Icecast is streamed at: http://<your-server-ip>:8001. The Icecast container comes with a basic webpage with an audio player to play whatever Mopidy is streaming. See the icecast/www folder for details. Of course the ports can be customized on demand via docker-compose and you can expose your service through HTTPS using a reverse proxy. In my local network I'm using Caddy Server https://hub.docker.com/_/caddy as my reverse proxy solution to serve my services in HTTPS.
The Mopidy configuration for this setup is fetched from the folder mopidy-icesnap/mopidy/mopidy-icecast.conf. The output doesn't need to be changed. Important sections here are:
- [spotify] - Authenticate here https://mopidy.com/ext/spotify/#authentication and paste in the
client_idandclient_secret; - [scrobbler] - Last.fm scrobbler if you want to enable it, not mandatory;
This setup is perfect for a multi-room audio where the clients are synchronized to each other. As well the streaming can be controlled from a single source (Mopidy), while being accessible from various devices on a fantastic web client. The setup consists of a main streaming server with several clients in each room, for each room you'll need a host capable of running the snapclient docker image or, alternatively, you can use an old Android phone either installing Snapcast (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.badaix.snapcast) or using the web interface from your Snapcast server. You'll also need one speaker for each client (oh really?).
Once connected to the server, clients automatically syncronize the streaming.
Mopidy is a music server with support for MPD clients and HTTP clients.
Includes the following extensions:
- Iris (frontend)
- Mobile (frontend)
- TuneIn
- MPD
- Local
- m3u
- Spotify
Snapcast is a multiroom client-server audio player, where all clients are time synchronized with the server to play perfectly synced audio. This version comes with Raspotify baked in.
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Streams
- [Mopidy] FIFO stream using
tmp/snapfifo - [Spotify] Spotify Connect stream from
librespot(Raspotify)
- [Mopidy] FIFO stream using
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Clients
A simple python script that automatically switches to the active streaming queue on Snapserver. It's a simple automation to make a seamless streaming whenever you want to switch from Spotify Connect (Raspotify) to Mopidy and vice-versa without the hassle of choosing the streaming queues.
Icecast is a server — an audio streaming server to be precise.
Docker images can be found at:
https://hub.docker.com/u/rfabri
The architectures supported by the images on this repository are:
| Architecture | Available | Tag |
|---|---|---|
| x86-64 | ✅ | amd64-latest |
| arm64 | ✅ | arm64v8-latest |