Generic pipe output player provider

[r10r]

Hi there,

I'm missing playback to locally attached output devices in music-assistant, so I think about implementing a generic pipe output player provider to fill the gap. This provider should should just write the audio to an existing named pipe (fifo).
The output format should be configurable to match the input format of the pipe consumer as best as possible
to avoid resampling and reduce CPU load.

@music-assistant/devs What do you think about such a player provider ?

Background

I have a homemade whole-home audio system with multiple ALSA output devices and I'd like to playback audio from the pipe like so

out=/run/aplay/mydevice.fifo
mkfifo $out
aplay -q -D mydevice -t raw  -r 44100 -c2 -f S16_LE -M $out

[marcelveldt]

There is a local player provider coming soon. This fits in there

[r10r]

That's nice! Is there an issue already tracking the local player provider feature ? I'd like to subscribe to it

[marcelveldt]

I have a local branch on my machine which I'll continue once 2.4 is promoted to stable. So once that is merged, this will be easy to append