- Get a few inexpensive (way less then Sonos or anything else) ESP32 boards
- Flash the firmware
- Connect boards to speakers
- Connect boards to Logitech Media Server accessible over WiFi
- Enjoy listening to your Tom Cardy albums throughout your home
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Sonos is probably the easiest one as others have mentioned. A bunch of raspberry pi’s with pulseaudio configured for remote streaming from a master audio source could also work for playing the same song in multiple locations if you want a more diy approach
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What I've done recently is grab one of the bluetooth FM transmitters for cars, that let you connect your phone and it broadcasts that onto a FM radio station.
They actually reach a lot farther than you think. Now any FM radio in your house will be perfectly in sync, and as many as you want. This has a limit depending on how thick your walls are but they're cheap as hell and work well.
Admittedly, I just use Sonos myself. However, I do hope to one day move to something else more open.
BluOS is another solution to look at. It's still pricey, but works offline and higher quality than Sonos if you're someone who has lots of high res music files.
If you want something that's more open, but way more DIY, I found this blog post that talks about a solution using Mopidy server: https://blog.platypush.tech/article/Build-your-open-source-multi-room-and-multi-provider-sound-server-with-Platypush-Mopidy-and-Snapcast
Can't vouch for it, but looks interesting and according to the GitHub is still being updated so worth a look if you don't mind putting in some work and tinkering.
Snapcast on a RasPi will handle that great
Sonos. Ikea also do a cheaper version with the same internals as the Sonos systems.
A good Bluetooth receiver, some speakers, a 3,5 mm spliter and lots of 3,5 mm cables.
Analog sound system
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