Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)

https://github.com/haileys/bark

It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.

I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.

It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:

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live sync audio streaming for local networks. Contribute to haileys/bark development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I realised I forgot to put a link in the original post lol so I have edited it, but here is the link in case: https://github.com/haileys/bark
GitHub - haileys/bark: live sync audio streaming for local networks

live sync audio streaming for local networks. Contribute to haileys/bark development by creating an account on GitHub.

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@hailey have you seen Roon Labs RAAT - it is quite popular in hifi circles and has pretty good list of supported network streamers/dacs/amplifiers. Would be nice to have compatible opensource implementation https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/raat
Roon Advanced Audio Transport (RAAT)

What is RAAT? RAAT (Roon Advanced Audio Transport) is the backbone of Roon's audio distribution technology. It is designed to support a wide range of software and hardware applications without format support restrictions or quality compromises. It ...

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