Shairport - ArchWiki

# Shairport

Shairport is a utility for emulating AirPlay functionality on Linux. However, since it has been created by reverse-engineering Apple's key used in its AirPort Express, be advised that the functionality may be removed at Apple's discretion. ShairPort does not support AirPlay v2 (video and photo streaming).

## Installation

You can install Shairport with the shairport-git package from the AUR.

## Configuration

The configuration file can be found at `/etc/conf.d/shairport`. Add the following to set a name for your server.

    /etc/conf.d/shairport

    # Shairport Daemon options

    # SHAIRPORT_ARGS - any additional shairport arguments that
    # you would like to be loaded. See shairport --help for more info
    SHAIRPORT_ARGS="-a 'My Server Name'"

Name your Shairport server, then start the service:

    # systemctl start shairport

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- Streaming