Tertiary Parts of an NFC Music Player

The devil is always in the details with large systems like this. I wanted my multi room audio system to feel like a polished product, a professional setup. For that I need to make sure I covered ALL the details, since it’s all the small things that can add up to big issues. Here is a smattering of the details I’ve been working on for my multi room audio system.

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Squeezebox ESP32 Multi-room Audio System

I finally came across a speaker setup that I could try out for relatively inexpensively, that also uses open source software, and can be used for multi-room audio. I found the ESP32 A1S audio kit that is supported by squeezelite-esp and has a simple web installer. On top of that, there are a decent number of forum posts using it and providing details on configuration. This gives me a potential holy grail, open source, locally based, multi-room audio speaker. The main problem I will end up having is putting something together with good audio quality, and appliance level ease of use and stability, but thats a future problem, for now, lets check out squeezelite on the ESP32 A1S.

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