{"id":4367,"date":"2014-12-12T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2014-12-12T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:05:08","slug":"stream-android-audio-to-ubuntu-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/stream-android-audio-to-ubuntu-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stream Android Music \/ Audio to Ubuntu over WIFI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Want your Android Phone’s music plays out of the Ubuntu machine’s speaker over WIFI? Well, here’s step by step howto using DLNA\/UPnP. Tested with Ubuntu 14.04 and LG E960 (Nexus 4).<\/b><\/p>\n

First take a look at result. Android phone plays music, and sound comes out of my Ubuntu laptop’s speaker.<\/p>\n

\"Steam<\/a><\/p>\n

To get started, first do below steps in Ubuntu machine:<\/h5>\n

1.<\/b> Open Terminal from the Dash\/Menu, run below command to install rygel, PulseAudio Preferences, and Volume Control utilities.<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install rygel rygel-gst-launch rygel-tracker rygel-playbin rygel-preferences wavpack paprefs pavucontrol<\/pre>\n
Type in your user password when it asks and answer yes to confirm the install process.<\/p>\n
\"Install<\/a><\/p>\n
2.<\/b>Open PulseAudio Preferences<\/b> utility from the Unity Dash or Application Menu. When it opens, check to enable every option under Network Server<\/b> tab.<\/p>\n
\"Setup<\/a><\/p>\n
3.<\/b> Finally start the rygel service by running command rygel<\/code> in terminal window so that your Android phone can see Ubuntu machine.<\/p>\n
\"Start<\/a><\/p>\n
Leave the terminal window open as long as you want to stream the music plays.<\/p>\n
Now do below steps in Android device:<\/h5>\n
First you need a music player with DLNA\/UPnP support. Here I installed the BubbleUPnP from Google Play.<\/p>\n
1.<\/b> Open the DLNA\/UPnP player\/client and select Ubuntu machine as audio renderer. In my case, it’s Audio\/Video playback on trusty<\/b> (see the picture below).<\/p>\n
\"Select<\/a><\/p>\n
Restart Ubuntu machine and start the rygel<\/code> service if you don’t see it in the drop-down list.<\/p>\n
2.<\/b> Now browser music from library (Both local and remote libraries are OK), add to playlist and play them. Depends on the required bandwidth, there might be a time delay before music starts playing.<\/p>\n
Here the sound from Ubuntu machine’s speaker? If not, make sure you have selected the right output from Ubuntu’s sound setting utility.<\/p>\n
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Want your Android Phone’s music plays out of the Ubuntu machine’s speaker over WIFI? Well, here’s step by step howto using DLNA\/UPnP. Tested with Ubuntu 14.04 and LG E960 (Nexus 4). First take a look at result. Android phone plays music, and sound comes out of my Ubuntu laptop’s speaker. To get started, first do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1184],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-stream-android-music-to-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}