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Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by deanclatworthy »

rikkus wrote: post #74
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...

Last time I tried this, the sound output was awful from the Pi itself and glitchy when using a USB DAC. Any problems with the audio in your experience?

I'm no audiophile. I'm happy streaming 320kbs spotify with my premium account to a $50 pair of logitech computer speakers. No complaints of audio quality from me. Nobody has ever said anything either.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by sangnoir »

ajanuary wrote: post #47
dotunderscore wrote: post #44

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You are aware that the chromecast is really nothing more then a web browser in a stick? It has no storage for any thing other then the firmware to run the device.

A local network is more than capable of serving up the chromecast app. It's a restriction they've added to the device that it won't load it from a local network.

I think "restriction" is a poor choice: it's more like an architectural decision - that is exactly how they designed it.

I could equally say your computer is more than capable of running a self-hosted version of GMail, but "it's a restriction [Google] added" for them to run it on their servers.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by mahyarm »

_lce0 wrote: post #15

I don't want to cast from the cloud . Just make the device able to receive any media from my LAN!! it's nice that the dongle can stream from the web, but it's way more useful to make the device aware of upnp/dlna devices over my local network. Because of this I've moved to raspberry which - exposes itself over the network as a upnp device - plays remote media in the main TV - acts as a nas, it can stream to kids' roo…

It's not casting from 'the cloud', but from a server. And that server can be any device on your local network. Thats how it can receive any media on your LAN.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by jedc »

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 think you just described ROCKI! - http://www.myrocki.com/

They had a successful Kickstarter in 2013 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rocki/rocki-wifi-music-...) and went through Techstars Boston in Fall 2014.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by dchuk »

sanderjd wrote: post #87
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.

Been using the links posted here for NFL: http://www.reddit.com/r/nflstreams

There are sidebar links for other sports too.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by radley »

Reebles wrote: post #10

Will we finally get gapless playback in the Chromecast's native music player? I've tried to use my Chromecast for music, but the gaps between tracks are just complete deal breakers for many albums. I had just assumed audio was not a priority for google.

The sdk offers gapless playback but the OS still can't actually do it. Poweramp is one of the few apps that can do gapless, but it uses ffmpg instead of native.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by joelhaasnoot »

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 wonder if they'll just make this as simple as a Chromecast being a "Google Cast Ready" speaker - aka, a stream output for audio.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by joelhaasnoot »

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 wonder if they'll just make this as simple as a Chromecast being a "Google Cast Ready" speaker - aka, a stream output for audio.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by coda_ »

_lce0 wrote: post #15

I don't want to cast from the cloud . Just make the device able to receive any media from my LAN!! it's nice that the dongle can stream from the web, but it's way more useful to make the device aware of upnp/dlna devices over my local network. Because of this I've moved to raspberry which - exposes itself over the network as a upnp device - plays remote media in the main TV - acts as a nas, it can stream to kids' roo…

Plex is pretty awesome for casting content on your own network if you haven't looked at that.
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