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perry's audio server
pas is an audio server capable of sending multiple concurrent analog or digital stereo feeds to some (as yet undetermined maximum) number of outboard DACs. Each DAC drives a separate audio zone in a multi-zone or multi-room installation.
A key feature of pas is that it is quite light weight, capable of running multiple concurrent streams even from a $50 ARM-based dev-board. See below (and the development environment page) for information about the microscopic computer pas being being developed on.
Some information about pas:
- pas is Linux based.
- pas is heavily multithreaded and likes multicore machines.
- pas is written to be headless. UI's are provided via ssh or other means such as a web server.
- audio is emitted using pulseaudio via USB ports.
- audio is decoded using ffmpeg so pas supports those formats supported by ffmpeg.
- data is maintained using MySQL.
- pas may expose a MPD-compatible interface as the pas API is quite robust.
- pas is being developed on an odroid XU4.
- pas is being developed using an audioengine D3 USB DAC, a DragonFly Black from AudioQuest and 3 Fiio DACs - see the hardware page for more information..
pas can be found on GitHub here.