← Directory

AirConnect

AirConnect turns UPnP, Sonos, and Chromecast speakers into AirPlay targets so Apple devices can stream audio to them.

  • Media Applications
  • Media Servers
  • Tools & Utilities
AirConnect turns UPnP, Sonos, and Chromecast speakers into AirPlay targets so Apple devices can stream audio to them. It detects players on your local network, creates virtual AirPlay devices, and bridges audio between AirPlay senders and your existing speakers. Runs on any networked machine, from a Raspberry Pi to a full server.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

69/100 Good

Maintained
84last commit 8 days ago
Popular
724,191 GitHub stars
Easy to install
351 install platform, install notes, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 13 days ago

GitHub stars
4,191
Open issues
52
Last commit
2026-10-05
Latest release
1.12.4
Activity
rising

Checked 6 days ago - source: GitHub (philippe44/AirConnect)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked 14 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • Download the ready-made binary Download the pre-built AirConnect zip for your system with wget instead of building from source. That skips compile tools and gives you the program file you need to run. source
  • Make the program file runnable After extracting the zip, run chmod +x on the AirConnect executable. On Linux and macOS, without this step the system will refuse to launch it. source
  • Let speakers be found on the network If your players don't appear, allow mDNS (port 5353) to be shared and don't block multicast traffic. For Avahi set disallow-other-stacks=no, and on some Asus routers disable multicast snooping. source

Fetched 5 days ago - each note links to its source

Alternatives

No alternatives collected yet.

Common questions

Can I install AirConnect without setting up NodeJS?

You can install AirConnect from a binary and avoid NodeJS-related setup concerns.

Did AirConnect stop working for some users after iOS 15?

Some users reported that AirConnect stopped working from iOS 15.

How can I reduce playback issues on some Sonos players?

You can ignore FLUSH requests via the config file or use --noflush on the command line, though this can affect pause behavior.

Where can I find known issues with AirConnect?

Check the AirConnect GitHub issues page for reported problems.

Answers sourced from github.com, github.com, www.reddit.com, www.reddit.com

Community

Collected 13 days ago - public community threads