* Metadata — Shairport Sync can deliver metadata supplied by the source, such as Album Name, Artist Name, Cover Art, etc. through a pipe or UDP socket to a recipient application program — see https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync-metadata-reader for a sample recipient. Sources that supply metadata include iTunes and the Music app in iOS.
* Compiles on Linux, Cygwin, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
* Outputs to [`alsa`](https://www.alsa-project.org/wiki/Main_Page), [`sndio`](http://www.sndio.org), [PulseAudio](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/), [JACK](http://jackaudio.org), to a unix pipe or to `STDOUT`. It also has limited support for [libao](https://xiph.org/ao/) and for [`soundio`](http://libsound.io).
-* An [MPRIS](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/2.2/) interface, partially complete and very functional, including access to metadata and artwork, and some remote control.
+* An [MPRIS](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/2.2/) interface, partially complete and very functional, including access to metadata and artwork, and some limited remote control.
* An interface to [MQTT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MQTT), an often-used protocol in home automation projects.
-* A native D-Bus interface, including access to metadata and artwork, some remote control and some system settings.
+* A native D-Bus interface, including access to metadata and artwork, some limited remote control and some system settings.
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