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# 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

Install the shairport-sync package.

## Configuration

The configuration file can be found at `/etc/conf.d/shairport-sync`. It consists on a single variable allowing arguments to be passed to the service. In the example below, iTunes would label the server as 'My Server Name' rather than the default 'Shairport Sync on <hostname>'.

    /etc/conf.d/shairport-sync

    # ShairportSync Daemon options
    SHAIRPORT_ARGS="--name='My Server Name'"

## Starting

Start/enable `shairport-sync.service` using systemd.

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