Using an old iPhone (5) as a streamer to a Bluetooth device

[Pieman1972]

I have a number of players, howver the Squeezebox Radio I have been using in my BBQ Shack seems to have died a death. Not powering on either under battery or mains, I have swapped batteries with another radio and the charging leads and still no joy :-( I will put a post in the Radio forum seeing what folks think about trying to repair.....

So I am looking at the potential alternatives. My server is running on a Synology DS209+ NAS (Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 023.1090 @ Wed Jul 20 12:03:07 UTC 2016.....yes I know it needs an upgrade but its getting round to it plus I think it was a Synology package).

I have an old iPhone 5 lie-ing around, I was thinking to use that a conduit to a external IPX7 (W-King possibly) Bluetooth speaker, Wifi to the shack is good. Music on the NAS is a collection of MP3 and FLAC format - from what I've read the iOS10 (which the iphone 5 runs) doesn't support FLAC natively so needs a player.....so was thinking of an App to "play" the tracks on the phone and then Bluetooth to the speaker......

So questions - which software will do that for me - a quick search of the old Wiki seems to show only iPeng in existence now. On my Android phone I have Squeezer and SqueezePlayer. I don't really want to use my own phone as it would mean it would always need to stay in the shack whilst playing - plus it also has the Govee light strip app which connects via Bluetooth so if I want to change my light settings the music would stop!

Of course any other suggestions to suitable players - possibly Wifi enabled so could connect direct to the NAS most welcome (with any suggestions for iOS apps to control the music!) will be most welcome.

Thanks in advance!

[rkrug]

I am using picoreplayer on a Pi with bluetooth - works perfectly.

Bluetooth is build in, and whenever the speaker connects, it stats playing.

Rainer

> On 26 Jan 2021, at 10:32, Pieman1972 <Pieman1972.9w2uan (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.slimdevices.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have a number of players, howver the Squeezebox Radio I have been
> using in my BBQ Shack seems to have died a death. Not powering on either
> under battery or mains, I have swapped batteries with another radio and
> the charging leads and still no joy :-( I will put a post in the Radio
> forum seeing what folks think about trying to repair.....
>
> So I am looking at the potential alternatives. My server is running on a
> Synology DS209+ NAS (Logitech Media Server Version: 7.9.0 - 023.1090 @
> Wed Jul 20 12:03:07 UTC 2016.....yes I know it needs an upgrade but its
> getting round to it plus I think it was a Synology package).
>
> I have an old iPhone 5 lie-ing around, I was thinking to use that a
> conduit to a external IPX7 (W-King possibly) Bluetooth speaker, Wifi to
> the shack is good. Music on the NAS is a collection of MP3 and FLAC
> format - from what I've read the iOS10 (which the iphone 5 runs) doesn't
> support FLAC natively so needs a player.....so was thinking of an App to
> "play" the tracks on the phone and then Bluetooth to the speaker......
>
> So questions - which software will do that for me - a quick search of
> the old Wiki seems to show only iPeng in existence now. On my Android
> phone I have Squeezer and SqueezePlayer. I don't really want to use my
> own phone as it would mean it would always need to stay in the shack
> whilst playing - plus it also has the Govee light strip app which
> connects via Bluetooth so if I want to change my light settings the
> music would stop!
>
> Of course any other suggestions to suitable players - possibly Wifi
> enabled so could connect direct to the NAS most welcome (with any
> suggestions for iOS apps to control the music!) will be most welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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[kidstypike]

I am using picoreplayer on a Pi with bluetooth - works perfectly.

Bluetooth is build in, and whenever the speaker connects, it stats playing.

Rainer

Same here Raspberry Pi (piCorePlayer) > Bluetooth > Amazon Echo Show 8.

[d6jg]

I’ve got an iPod Touch from that era and it still has a working install of iPeng which will play FLAC.
Not sure you can still install it though

[Pieman1972]

Thanks for the answers so far - iPeng is showing on the AppStore will do a bit more digging.....Cheers!

Will also look at the Pi side of things.....

[bernt]

A speaker with AirPlay and the AirPlay bridge plugin?

No iThings needed.

https://www.whathifi.com/audio-pro/addon-c3/review