- 48,000 frames per second operation,
- 48k lossless stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound
- Multichannel and multi rate operation on ALSA, PipeWire, PulseAudio, FreeBSD, stdout and unix pipe output backends.
Automatic, flexible and controllable output format (rate, sample format and channel count) selection.
Full FFmpeg integration to support transcoding, resampling, and new audio formats.
Better operation on lower powered devices down to e.g. Raspberry Pi B.
Reduced Docker image sizes with a slimmed-down FFmpeg library.
Enhanced timestamp handling for better synchronization.
Improved the sync error calculation.
A new "vernier" resampling and interpolation method for low-power CPUs.
Bug fixes and minor enhancements.
Note -- there are many breaking changes from previous versions of Shairport Sync!
The introduction paragraph now more clearly mentions the hard facts/requirements with "as of v4.1 and newer" and the supported devices are displayed in bullet list format for better readabilty.
NQPTP works and runs as _shairport user on OpenBSD.
Linux capabilities(7) allow starting as unprivileged user in the first
place, otherwise programs only need to start and perform privileged
actions such as bind(2)ing sockets as root, after that they can and
should! drop privileges.
Instead of updating/repeating supported systems, drop listings.
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