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Show HN: Stream vinyl (any RCA) to your Sonos system using RPi and open-source

by mfi on 11/1/23, 5:41 PM with 10 comments

• by mfi on 11/1/23, 5:41 PM

  I just finished my latest project here at home, setting up my vinyl player to stream to my Sonos system using a Raspberry Pi.

  When looking into streaming my vinyl player to the Sonos system, I realized that the “official” way of doing this is to buy a Sonos Port, which costs >$400 where I live. So instead I spent waaayy too much time packaging a set of open-source services into a pre-built Raspberry Pi image that reads a stream from any vinyl player (RCA) and streams it to the Sonos system.

  Hopefully this will simplify the setup for someone else here :)

  Setup:

  * It’s running on a Raspberry Pi + a USB analog to digital converter

  * “pi-gen” is used to build the custom RPi image from scratch

  * “Darkice” is used as a live audio streamer, reading the stream from the vinyl player

  * “Icecast” is used as a streaming media server which streams the live audio from Darkice and broadcast it out in the local network.

  * The Sonos speakers are then pointed to this local stream through the Sonos app.

• by ryaneager on 11/2/23, 1:00 AM

  The idea of putting vinyl though a ADC/DAC feels very wrong.

• by treebeard5440 on 11/1/23, 5:55 PM

  I love vinyl - thanks for sharing!