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LMS and squeeze clients as airplay client for Amazon Music

Hi folks.

Perhaps I'm a bit late to the party with this finding:

Background. I was asking myself how to get my "Amazon Music" streaming service played back on my squeeze clients through the LogitechMediaServer (LMS).

Amazon is not opening up the API as it seems. That's why there's no plugin on LMS. Hmmh!?!?

I then found out that it is possible to stream "Amazon Music" over Airplay.

Luckily there's a plugin on LMS called "ShairTunes2", basically an Airplay emulator.

All squeeze clients on the home network will be shown as Airplay devices.

That sounds like a right-on-the-spot solution.

After installing the plugin and following the installation instructions,
I had my squeeze clients showing up as Airplay clients on the iPad. Great.

It took me not even 10 minutes to get going.

I switched the audio output on the iPad to a squeeze client.
After that I fired up Amazon Music.

Guess what!?!? It worked right away. Very nice.

There's one problem though.

On Android devices I discovered a major (from my point of view) limitation.
The existing Airplay emulator apps on Android require a rooted device to get access to the audio stream of different apps. Hmmh.

I'd prefer not to root my Android phone. That's a dead end for me at this point on Android.

Perhaps there are more options to accomplish "Amazon Music" on squeeze.
If anybody has some ideas, please let me know.

Enjoy.





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Topic - LMS and squeeze clients as airplay client for Amazon Music - soundchekk 06:16:50 09/14/16 (3)

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