I would like to play HD Radio on my Sonos speakers. However, there doesn't appear to be a way to directly integrate a local music source into the desktop app.
Currently, it is possible to play HD Radio on your computer using a $25 RTL-SDR USB adapter and the NRSC5 library.
See: https://github.com/theori-io/nrsc5
I describe how to use this library along with Airfoil on my Mac in order to stream a radio station to networked speakers using Airplay or Google Cast here:
http://freetime.mikeconnelly.com/archives/5052
Unfortunately, I cannot currently fling music to my new Sonos One speakers.
There seem three possible options:
1) Wait for Google Assistant integration for the Sonos One speakers and anticipate that they will support Google Cast then.
2a) Create a Icecast music server. Pipe music from NSRC5 library to that. Then create a local Internet radio station on my Mac that "tunes" to the Icecast server.
2b) There might be a similar solution using UPNP rather than Icecast.
3) Create a plugin to the Mac desktop app that wraps around the NSRC5 library. But I don't see any details in Sonos Labs about how to do this. (they seem focused on creating cloud-based music services)
Any feedback is welcome!
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