Use these applications to add AirPlay capabilities to Chromecast and UPnP (like Sonos) players, to make them appear as AirPlay devices.

AirConnect can run on any machine that has access to your local network (Windows, MacOS x86 and arm64, Linux x86, x86_64, arm, aarch64, sparc, mips, powerpc, Solaris and FreeBSD). It does not need to be on your main computer. (For example, a Raspberry Pi works well). It will detect UPnP/Sonos/Chromecast players, create as many virtual AirPlay devices as needed, and act as a bridge/proxy between AirPlay clients (iPhone, iPad, iTunes, MacOS, AirFoil ...) and the real UPnP/Sonos/Chromecast players.

The audio, after being decoded from alac, can be sent in plain, or re-encoded using mp3, aac or flac. Most players will not display metadata (artist, title, album, artwork ...) except when mp3 or aac re-encoding are used and for UPnP/DLNA devices that support icy protocol. Chromecast players support this after version 1.1.x

1. Pre-built binaries are in AirConnect-<X.Y.Z>.zip. It can be downloaded manually in a terminal by typing wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philippe44/AirConnect/master/AirConnect-<X.Y.Z>.zip. Unzip the file an select the binary that works for your system.

   • For Chromecast, the file is aircast-<os>-<cpu> (so aircast-macos-x86_64 for Chromecast on MacOS + Intel CPU)
   • For UPnP/Sonos, the file is airupnp-<os>-<cpu> (so airupnp-macos-arm64 for UPnP/Sonos on MacOS + arm CPU)

2. There is a "-static" version of each application that has all static libraries built-in. Use of these is (really) not recommended unless the regular version fails. For MacOS users, you need to install openSSL and do the following steps to use the dynamic load library version:

   • install openssl: brew install openssl. This creates libraries (or at least links) into /usr/local/opt/openssl[/x.y.z]/lib where optional 'x.y.z' is a version number
   • create links to these libraries: