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What use cases do you see this having? Just curious
I'm guessing being able to send any audio stream, for example your computer audio, so you can use Spotify or anything playing at your computer. Someone did this without the need of jailbreak for Sonos speakers, although it has some delay so was not good for movies or games.
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You seriously can't do that on a vanilla homepod? Seems like the most basic feature every bluetooth speaker has. Re: the delay, usually for videos the computer will compensate by delaying the video playback to match the speakers.
Yep, seriously, I was shocked too when buying my first (and last) Sonos, there was a list of apps, and a list of FM stations that worked with the Sonos app, and some had arbitrary restrictions like Spotify needing premium account. I don't own an Apple HomePod, but I'm assuming the situation is similar because I read Spotify is not supported yet. If that's the case "The speakers of the house."[1] slogan might be miss-…
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Do you have the homepod code or are you just going by what a trillion dollar company that does plenty of shady things advertises to you?
apple makes 1/100th the revenue from ads that google does, so it's very clear which is abusing user data to do so
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Not to dogpile, but do you remember the 90s? In 1993, computer hardware that wasn't SGI wasn't allowed to be any color besides Beige , to the point that in the late 90s having a black PC was a design trend instead of the default.
> computer hardware that wasn't SGI wasn't allowed to be any color besides Beige Not true. Digital (DEC) PCs were "almost white" (maybe stightly off-white but still approaching a cream, not beige). Hard to find a picture that shows this without having aged but this does a good job: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/68... Note the marked difference between the beige floppy drive and the case. A…
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No delay but Bluetooth audio? Is that that even possible? I use Bluetooth audio a lot when only listening to media but try and use Bluetooth headphones while playing a MIDI instrument. For me I struggle when I try to do that. My headphones are Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT. They support Bluetooth 5.0 https://www.audio-technica.com/en-gb/ath-m50xbt I’ve been using them with a wire connection to my MPC X when doing music b…
For hardware from Apple's walled garden, here's some numbers on AirPods latency: > What about results? The first-generation AirPods, which use Apple’s W1 chip, measure latency of 274 ms. Second-generation AirPods, released earlier this year and powered by Apple’s newer H1 chip, drop the latency to 178 ms. And AirPods Pro, which use the same H1 chip, are even better at 144 ms. https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/22/airpods-la…
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Yep, seriously, I was shocked too when buying my first (and last) Sonos, there was a list of apps, and a list of FM stations that worked with the Sonos app, and some had arbitrary restrictions like Spotify needing premium account. I don't own an Apple HomePod, but I'm assuming the situation is similar because I read Spotify is not supported yet. If that's the case "The speakers of the house."[1] slogan might be miss-…
might be miss-leading for many customer that expect bluetooth speaker behaviour or a jack input It's not a Bluetooth speaker. At no time does Apple claim it's a Bluetooth speaker. If someone wants to believe it's a Bluetooth speaker, that's their fault for failing reading comprehension. I don't expect Apple to put a big red sticker on HomePod boxes reading, "THIS IS NOT A BLUETOOTH SPEAKER!" any more than I expect an…
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For hardware from Apple's walled garden, here's some numbers on AirPods latency: > What about results? The first-generation AirPods, which use Apple’s W1 chip, measure latency of 274 ms. Second-generation AirPods, released earlier this year and powered by Apple’s newer H1 chip, drop the latency to 178 ms. And AirPods Pro, which use the same H1 chip, are even better at 144 ms. https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/22/airpods-la…
That's pretty shocking considering hardware from 100 years ago could do the same with sub-microsecond latency. 100,000x worse!
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For hardware from Apple's walled garden, here's some numbers on AirPods latency: > What about results? The first-generation AirPods, which use Apple’s W1 chip, measure latency of 274 ms. Second-generation AirPods, released earlier this year and powered by Apple’s newer H1 chip, drop the latency to 178 ms. And AirPods Pro, which use the same H1 chip, are even better at 144 ms. https://9to5mac.com/2019/12/22/airpods-la…
That's pretty shocking considering hardware from 100 years ago could do the same with sub-microsecond latency. 100,000x worse!
I've always been so interested in Darwin/iOS/macOS internals yet I can't find any good resources. I find it so interesting how they use that OS across all their devices.
I think you would enjoy the http://newosxbook.com/index.php series.
Any recommendations for an aesthetic single speaker with high quality audio that takes Airplay, Chromecast, and bluetooth? You know, without having to jailbreak a HomePod? Stunned it has to be this difficult.
I'm considering replacing my HomePod with either Denon Home 150 [0] or going DIY route with HiFiBerry DAC [1] [0] https://www.denon.com/en-gb/shop/denonhome/denonhome150 [1] https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/boards/hifiberry-dac2-pro/