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Shairport: turn your linux in an AirPlay speaker

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by mmornati

22/03/2012

I just discovered and tested a nice project that allow you to create an AirPlay server to use as a simple speaker for your iOS device (for example send audio from your iPod to your Linux PC): Shairport!!

To install and use it on Fedora 16 distribution is really simple.
First of all you should install all the required packages to build this project:

yum install openssl-devel libao libao-devel perl-Crypt-OpenSSL-RSA perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-libwww-perl avahi-tools

Then, after a little clone of the git repository

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

You can enter in the shairport directory and build it

mmornati@desktop shairport$ make
cc -O2 -Wall   -DHAIRTUNES_STANDALONE hairtunes.c alac.o -o hairtunes -lm -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -lao
cc -O2 -Wall   -c socketlib.c -o socketlib.o
cc -O2 -Wall   -c shairport.c -o shairport.o
cc -O2 -Wall   -c hairtunes.c -o hairtunes.o
cc -O2 -Wall   socketlib.o shairport.o alac.o hairtunes.o -o shairport -lm -lpthread -lssl -lcrypto -lao

Now you can simply startup the shairport script and check if all works well using your iOS device

mmornati@desktop shairport$ perl shairport.pl
Established under name 'D2908EECAA5A@ShairPort 3882 on desktop'
requesting resend on 1 packets (port 53568)

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  1. mohand

    04/04/2012 at 22:31 (UTC 2) Link to this comment

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    thx for sharing. works perfectly!

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  2. Strangelimp

    10/12/2012 at 22:37 (UTC 2) Link to this comment

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    Hi, trying to follow your instructions to add airplay to my Vortexbox server (running on Fedroa 16), but a noob on Fedora. When trying to clone the repository using “git clone https://github.com/albertz/shairport.git” I’m getting “git: command not found”.

    Any ideas what i’m doing wrong?

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    mmornati Reply:
    December 11th, 2012 at 09:01

    “git command not found” means you need to install git before :D

    On Fedora you can do it just with a:

    yum install git

    (you need to be root before to execute command, so “su -”)

    Marco

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  3. Strangelimp

    13/12/2012 at 20:38 (UTC 2) Link to this comment

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    Thanks – have now got Shairport up and running

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  4. jappa

    22/05/2013 at 14:32 (UTC 2) Link to this comment

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    does it work on a desktop?

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