A long time ago I bought two nice, round Loop speakers by Libratone. I don’t htink they make them any more. Too bad! These speakers offer Audio In, AirPlay, Bluetooth, and DLNA access. So how do I get them to work?
1. in a terminal window, run `pulseaudio-dlna`
2. open the *PulseAudio Volume Control* application
3. play music (otherwise, the *Playback* tab remains empty)
4. in the *Playback* tab, pick your network speaker
It’s annoying to run these two things in addition to the music player in order to hear the music but at the same time I don’t want to run them in the background, permanently.
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#Music #Administration
Create the file `~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/raop-discover.conf` with the following:
context.modules = [
{
name = libpipewire-module-raop-discover
args = { }
}
]
This is the equivalent of running `pactl load-module module-raop-discover`. The result is that running `pulsemixer` shows the speaker on the network.
Now you can set the speaker as the default sink and start `cmus` or some other player to play music.