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Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by jdboyd »

jluxenberg wrote: post #5
mankyd wrote: post #4

> Google Cast Ready speakers come with Cast technology built-in, so you don’t have to buy any additional equipment. Except for, you know, the entirely new speaker(s). I love this idea, but I want a simple, small dongle, like the chromecast, that outputs audio only rather than HDMI. I already have a speaker/amp in my living room that has a mini-stereo in. I simply want a way to connect a chromecast to it.

I use this HDMI audio extractor to turn a Chromecast into what you describe: http://www.amazon.com/J-Tech-Digital-Premium-Extractor-Conve...

Do you have to connect the HDMI out to anything for that to work?

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by Adaptive »

kyouens wrote: post #70
jluxenberg wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use this HDMI audio extractor to turn a Chromecast into what you describe: http://www.amazon.com/J-Tech-Digital-Premium-Extractor-Conve...

I am doing the same thing without the HDMI audio extractor. The Chromecast is plugged directly into an HDMI port on the receiver. It works fine. Maybe whether the extractor is necessary depends on the receiver.

Same here. TV on, I get video, TV off and it's audio only.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by jdboyd »

carlob wrote: post #66
deanclatworthy wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do this with a raspberry pi. I set up an AirPlay service on it, and added a tiny USB wifi dongle and put it in a nice white casing. Works great and cheaper than airport express that will do what you need also. http://www.raywenderlich.com/44918/raspberry-pi-airplay-tuto...

The problem is that the quality of the audio out of the raspberry pi is terrible. I wonder if these HDMI audio extractors I see in the comments are any better. I have a raspberry pi connected to a projector that doesn't have audio out and I can't decide between a sound card for the pi (think wolfson), or a HDMI audio extractor in order to improve the quality.

Supposedly the audio out on the B+ and A+ is dramatically better. I haven't bought one of the new ones to make my own judgement yet though.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by milkytoast »

kyouens wrote: post #68
mankyd wrote: post #4

> Google Cast Ready speakers come with Cast technology built-in, so you don’t have to buy any additional equipment. Except for, you know, the entirely new speaker(s). I love this idea, but I want a simple, small dongle, like the chromecast, that outputs audio only rather than HDMI. I already have a speaker/amp in my living room that has a mini-stereo in. I simply want a way to connect a chromecast to it.

Whether it will work seamlessly may depend on the receiver, but I have a Chromecast plugged into an HDMI port on my Yamaha unit. (Note, there is nothing plugged into the HDMI out port on the receiver.) This setup works flawlessly for streaming audio throughout my house. Some people say they had to use an HDMI audio extractor to achieve this, but that was not necessary in my case.

Yeah, similar setup here - I've plugged mine into the first HDMI port on my Onkyo receiver (http://amzn.com/B0077V88V8), and everything works fine. Audio through the reciever, no TV on - plus I get the automatic input switching thing that Chromecast does (seems to just go to the first HDMI port on the receiver, not the actual one it was plugged into). Pretty nice.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by [deleted] »

kyouens wrote: post #68
mankyd wrote: post #4

> Google Cast Ready speakers come with Cast technology built-in, so you don’t have to buy any additional equipment. Except for, you know, the entirely new speaker(s). I love this idea, but I want a simple, small dongle, like the chromecast, that outputs audio only rather than HDMI. I already have a speaker/amp in my living room that has a mini-stereo in. I simply want a way to connect a chromecast to it.

Whether it will work seamlessly may depend on the receiver, but I have a Chromecast plugged into an HDMI port on my Yamaha unit. (Note, there is nothing plugged into the HDMI out port on the receiver.) This setup works flawlessly for streaming audio throughout my house. Some people say they had to use an HDMI audio extractor to achieve this, but that was not necessary in my case.

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Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by sanderjd »

dchuk wrote: post #31

I love my Chromecasts. I have two of them in our house, and we don't have a television subscription, we just use a mixture of Plex, Netflix, and streams for sports. We're saving a bunch of money every year now, and it works great. But damn, the lack of a desktop sdk/api for chromecast is just infuriating. I get it, Google believes in Mobile and Web only, but you'd think if they're shooting for market domination, they…

Pretty off-topic, but what sports streams do you use? I'd love to ditch cable, but can't seem to find good replacements for sports.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by makomk »

drdaeman wrote: post #12

"Google Cast is designed to give you more freedom while listening to music." I sense some irony in this statement.

It almost makes AirPlay open by comparison. At least that lets you stream your local music collection rather than restricting you to approved cloud music services.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by jdboyd »

dchuk wrote: post #31

I love my Chromecasts. I have two of them in our house, and we don't have a television subscription, we just use a mixture of Plex, Netflix, and streams for sports. We're saving a bunch of money every year now, and it works great. But damn, the lack of a desktop sdk/api for chromecast is just infuriating. I get it, Google believes in Mobile and Web only, but you'd think if they're shooting for market domination, they…

This is why I'm hoping for the Matchstick project to work out. Some apps that work with ChromeCast already just work with Matchstick. They recently posted about trying to get supported for DRM requiring apps like NetFlix. There should be more news this week from CES.

Of course, for my to consider this a success, I want to see the software running on more than just their HDMI dongle. People have already compiled it to run on some Chinese dongles with the same CPU, but I'd like to see it also run on some more open platforms like Freescale iMX.6, Allwinner A20, and most especially X86.

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