Very nice but i have a small correction.
I have written it in a bit more detail that necessary for those who are still learning to use linux. TL;DR in the bottom.

The step where you explain how to change the name of the raspberry/shairplay unit, is not right. You write

"For instance, if we wanted to name it HiFiPi, we'd make the AP_NAME line look like this (by default, it's set to the Raspberry Pi's hostname):"

Here is how you say it should be done:

pi@raspberrypi ~/shairport $ sudo nano shairport
AP_NAME=HiFiPi # look for this line in shairport file

This tries to edit the "shairport" file in the ~/shairport directory, which is not a plain text file. If you cat the file it will return a bunch of gibberish

Here's the correct way according to volumino, link: https://volumio.org/forum/c...

SSH into your Raspberry Pi / Volumio
Type: "sudo nano /etc/init.d/shairport"

That command edits the "shairport" file in the /etc/init.d/ folder.
The defaults entry is the following (line 30 in /etc/init.d/shairport ):

AP_NAME=$(hostname)

Which will default the name of to the hostname of the raspberry pi, which you correctly stated.

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TL;DR: These two lines (Step called: "For instance, if we wanted to name it HiFiPi, [...]")

pi@raspberrypi ~/shairport $ sudo nano shairport
AP_NAME=HiFiPi # look for this line in shairport file

should be:

pi@raspberrypi ~/shairport $ sudo nano /etc/init.d/shairport
AP_NAME=HiFiPi # look for this line in shairport file

It's two different files

Thanks! I've updated the article to correctly reference /etc/init.d/shairport and clarified AP_NAME a bit.

I think when I originally composed this article, this specific instruction was provided *before* copying said file to the /etc/init.d/ directory.

By the way: The shairport setup worked perfectly (just followed step by step) as of 19th January 2017.
System: Raspberry Pi B+
OS: Raspbian Jessie.

I'm still new to this and i have set up pulseaudio like this: http://raspberrypi.stackexc...
Even though those instructions are slightly outdated.

I ran into issues setting up the sound card on Raspbian Jessie

The problem is that i couldn't find the alsa-base.conf file on Jessie. (It's not there)

However I followed these instructions to get the usb-sound card (Focusrite 2i2) working:
http://raspberrypi.stackexc...

Those instructions are supposedly the correct way to get sound card set up as default audio card.

Here's what i did:

First of all, check to see what order your cards have been loaded in:

$ cat /proc/asound/modules

0 snd_bcm2835
1 snd_usb_audio

I first create a file named /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

Then write the following into the file:

# This sets the index value of the cards but doesn't reorder.
options snd_usb_audio index=0
options snd_bcm2835 index=1

# Does the reordering.
options snd slots=snd_usb_audio,snd_bcm2835

Then reboot the raspberry and it should work.
After reboot you can type

$ cat /proc/asound/modules

and see that the order has changed. Before I rebooted i wanted to make sure that pulseaudio starts automatically on boot.

The way you do that in Jessie is by:

editing or creating the file:

/etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.service

Put the following in the file:

[Unit]
Description=PulseAudio Daemon

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
PrivateTmp=true
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio –system –realtime –disallow-exit –no-cpu-limit

Then ‘systemctl enable pulseaudio’ and ‘systemctl start pulseaudio’ – you now have a properly set up Pulseaudio daemon.

I found it in the comments in the thread called "pulseaudio start on boot?" on raspberrypi.org
Link. The guy found it somewhere else. Cheers. It's working great.

https://www.raspberrypi.org...

Looks like the most recent builds of Raspbian Jessie do not include a stock alsa-base.conf (oi!)

Thanks for noting your approach to compensate. I'll have to test myself on a fresh Raspian install to edit my instructions accurately.