Using a Raspberry Pi as an Airplay Server

This is mostly for my own personal notes. Maybe you'll get something out of it.
I've got an original Raspberry Pi B with a WiFi dongle that I have hooked directly to the USB input of my JVC Receiver.

Grab the "Lite" version of Raspbian because you won't need any windows.
At press time the most recent version is 2017-04-10-raspbian-jessie-lite.zip

Setup your accounts/wifi/localization the way you like.
Update and upgrade/dist-upgrade to get everything current.
Reboot to make sure everything is on the level.

Go to: https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync and skim the instructions so you know what you are doing.

Install All The Things!

sudo apt-get install build-essential git xmltoman autoconf automake libtool libdaemon-dev libasound2-dev libpopt-dev libconfig-dev avahi-daemon libavahi-client-dev libsoxr-dev libssl-dev

Clone All The Things!

git clone https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync.git

Change Directory

cd shairport-sync

Setup Configuration Script

autoreconf -i -f

Configure All The Things!

./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --with-alsa --with-avahi --with-ssl=openssl --with-soxr --with-systemd

Make All The Things!

make

Create Shairport-Sync Group for Security

 getent group shairport-sync &>/dev/null || sudo groupadd -r shairport-sync >/dev/null

Create Shairport-Sync User for Security

getent passwd shairport-sync &> /dev/null || sudo useradd -r -M -g shairport-sync -s /usr/bin/nologin -G audio shairport-sync >/dev/null

Install All The Things!

sudo make install

Launch on System Boot

sudo systemctl enable shairport-sync

Configure All The Things!

sudo nano /etc/shairport-sync.conf

I added a name to the "general" section

name = "MusicPi";
interpolation = "soxr";

I added some output info to the "alsa" section

output_device = "hw:1";