If you would like to contribute to the development of Shairport Sync, please make you changes to the development branch and make a pull request.
Changes and additions in the development branch make their way eventually to the master branch.
Issue reports are welcome, but before you report an issue, please have a look though the existing issues, both open and closed, and check for hints in the TROUBLESHOOTING page. It would be great to give some details of the device and version of Linux or FreeBSD in use along with the version of Shairport Sync you are using (use $ shairport-sync -V to get this). Then, if possible, some diagnostic information from the log or logfile would be useful.
In general, a log verbosity of 2 is adequate (-vv, or the relevant entry in the configuration file), and it's usually helpful if statistics have been enabled (--statistics on the command line, or the relevant entry in the configuration file).
If you are pasting in code or a log file, format it as code by preceding it and following it with a line containing exactly three backquotes and nothing else (see here for more on formatting):
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code or log file entries
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