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[Question] A Linux app to use any android phone/tablet as an external speaker for my laptop? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 7 hours ago by MattW03@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.world
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I have and old laptop with some good screen but awful audio. What i want is to stream the audio on my decent tablet to use it as a speaker. This is not a server cloud or anything similar, just a pc with some linux distro installed.

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[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 4 points 7 hours ago

you need snapcast, the server on your laptop will out put over the network and the app on your phone will play it. also it would allow you to add more speakers over time

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 1 points 7 hours ago

There's this: https://github.com/mkckr0/audio-share

Or this: https://audiorelay.net/downloads

Probably 50 more apps for it as well. I've not tried it, but any of them should work, I imagine

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

You COULD use a casting client and server, but it's probably much easier to just use the tablet as a Bluetooth target. Some phones/tablets just do this, but there's also simple free apps out there that enable this as well.