Let me explain how exactly this solution will work and overall how UPNP works. So, you use an app from the manufacturer to control you music or any UPnP app to play your music locally stored or from online streaming services compatible. Most commercial audio network streamers work this way anyway just as UPnP renderers. When it comes to this particular tutorial from this series dedicated to UPnP, this is the case when you just don’t need any web UI and you don’t mind using your phone, computer or other devices as a remote or source of your music. Another reason why you might start thinking to multipurpose your raspberry pi is that the actual streaming, playing of your music takes just so little resources from the raspberry pi, so basically 95 percent of the cpu power, ram and other is not used.

Also this might be one of the scenarios when you just want to put more use of your raspberry pi besides being just an audio player and run on your pi other self-hosted apps and services alongside as for example an add blocker, nextcould, plex media server or whatever other self-hosted apps or services you would like.ģ. Well, maybe your actual everyday needs when it comes to audio streaming don’t require all the extra features as other full audio software solutions developed to cover all possible needs offer so the extra bloat is not necessary and you want to have a full control over what is running on your system and tweak it to your particular needs.Ģ.

Why this way can be useful and the right for you?ġ.

Raspberry pi upnp player