An AirPlay Audio-Receiver for your Personal Computer or ARM-SoC (e.g. Raspberry Pi).
Play audio content from your iPhone, iPad, iPod or iTunes on your PC with ShairportQt. AirPlay lets you wirelessly stream what's on your iOS device whenever you see the AirPlay symbol.
This desktop-software was originally only available for Windows.
But now it's based on Qt and is therefore completely portable/cross platform. Additionally many bugs had been fixed - compared to the
previous version (Shairport4w).
Please download pre compiled binaries from Releases.
When being asked by your Firewall you should grant access to your LAN if secure. Protect ShairportQt with a password
to be sure nobody is misusing this service.
ShairportQt consists of a single executable file. So, there's not much to install. Nevertheless I would like to provide some hints for the several Operating Systems which worked for me. Once you've downloaded the zip ... just extract the folder which matches your OS and follow these instructions:
Just copy the file ShairportQt.exe to your filesystem and create a Desktop-Link. That's it.
Shairport depends on Apple's Bonjour. Just start ShairportQt... it will guide you in case Bonjour
is not installed on your machine. Please retry to start ShairportQt.exe after
installation of Bonjour.
The installation for Linux depends a bit on your Linux distribution.
I myself am using Manjaro-Linux
which worked out of the box and I would expect the same for all KDE based distributions. You'll need at least Qt 6.7 installed on your machine.
May be anybody of the Linux Pros can give advice how to improve the installation experience with a .deb or .rpm
package. Comments are appreciated.
The releases package contains an installation script. So, for now you need to unpack the
zip file, open a terminal, change-directory to
Linux_x64 and start script install.sh as superuser:
chmod a+x install.sh
sudo ./install.shAfterwards ShairportQt application should be available from your start menu.
The releases package contains an installation script. So, for now you need to unpack the
zip file, open a terminal, change-directory to
Raspbian and start script install.sh as superuser:
chmod a+x install.sh
sudo ./install.shAfterwards ShairportQt application should be available from your start menu.
For Windows you may need to download and install Bonjour.
When being asked during the installation ... just dismiss the option to automatically update Bonjour's files in the background.
Which may save you from having another unnecessary process running on your machine.
A desktop-link for Bonjour is also completely unnecessary.
For Linux you may need to enable/start the avahi-daemon:
sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemonsudo systemctl start avahi-daemon
On my Raspbian ... I had to install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev.
sudo apt install libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev
When you have issues with ShairportQt please provide following informations:
- Operating System you're using.
- detailed steps how to reproduce.
- a log file. Which may be enabled from the advanced options dialog. The log file
ShairportQt.logwill be created within your home folder. Alternatively startShairportQtwith command line option-log.
ShairportQt is a CMake project. You'll need a complete c++ development environment and these packages to build it:
opensslspdlogsockppqtbasegtest
I recommend to use vcpkg in order to get them.
It works very well on Linux and Windows.
On Windows just open ShairportQt as CMake project with Visual Studio.
On Linux you may use Visual Studio Code or build from the command line (assumed you're using vcpkg):
git clone https://github.com/Frank-Friemel/ShairportQt.git
cd ShairportQt
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${VCPKG_ROOT}/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build .Thanks to James Laird who implemented the original version of "Shairport". Special thanks to Japanese Translator maborosohin.
