Comments on: Airfoil: Rave Reviews and Linux Software

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 10 May 2008 22:03:35 +0000

I can’t get this to work on ubuntu. Can anyone provide info?

By: Henry C

Henry C — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:41:19 +0000

Im still getting the erorr Rubin was getting with rel 1.0.0

ERROR: We could not load the Audio Player library. Please ensure that the audio player library is accessible in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and is compiled for your playform.
We were looking for: libAFSAudioPlayer

I made sure /usr/lib/airfoilspeakers/ is in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Any ideas? Help?

By: Henry C

Henry C — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:51:35 +0000

Rubin: WHat did you fix on /usr/bin/airfoilspeakers?

By: Paul Kafasis

Paul Kafasis — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:17:45 +0000

Rubin: Be sure to try the 1.0.0 that was released today.

Why no Airfoil for Linux
Simply put, because there’s approximately zero market for paid software on Linux. We’re a software company (not a support company, not a documentation company, etc.), we sell software. Porting Airfoil Speakers to Linux was made easier thanks to Mono, so we decided to give it a go, as it adds value to Airfoil for Mac and Windows. Airfoil itself, however, for Linux, just doesn’t make sense for us. Sorry!

By: TwitterJoe

TwitterJoe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:54:19 +0000

Ditto Frank.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:51:26 +0000

Why no Airfoil for Linux?

I have two turntables that I run through a mixer and into my Linux box. I wish I could stream those to some Airfoil speakers, sure do… :(

By: Rubin110

Rubin110 — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:44:27 +0000

Any chance of getting assistance, or am I just out of luck? You can also email me directly, take the link to my web site and replace the first dot with @.

By: Rubin110

Rubin110 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:56:28 +0000

Figured that out, edited /usr/bin/airfoilspeakers , now I get this…

http://pastebin.com/m400683d6

By: Rubin110

Rubin110 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:51:09 +0000

After a bear of a fight to get a newer version of mono running, I get this error without the GUI…

22:42:19 rubin110@joker:~$ airfoilspeakers –debug 9
AirfoilSpeakers: Airfoil Speakers 0.9.2.0
We could not initialize the GUI. Falling back to command line…
Using 00301b301baf8f9f as mac address (/sys/class/net/eth0/address)
AirfoilServer.AirTunes.RTP.Audio.AFSRTPAudioConnection – setup UDP connection on 0.0.0.0:33488
ERROR: We could not load the Audio Player library. Please ensure that the audio player library is accessible in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and is compiled for your playform.
We were looking for: libAFSAudioPlayer
Real-time signal 1

Any help would be great.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 22:13:26 +0000

vmarks: Putting Airfoil Speakers for Linux on there would be just fine. However, realize that Airfoil Speakers works exclusively with Airfoil (for Mac and Windows), not with iTunes. You'd need to pull the iTunes audio out with Airfoil, and send it along to AFS. Borland: See this follow-up for a full explanation - http://www.rogueamoeba.com/utm/2008/03/16/mea-culpa/