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Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by ubercow »

bitskits wrote: post #129
makomk wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Google Play Music supports this. Upload your audio files; stream from anywhere. No subscription needed.

emphasis here being on local music collection.

I don't want to have to upload a huge library of music just to stream it to my local network, where I already have the music on my hard drive.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

_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…

Chromecast accepts URLs to LAN resources. All you need to do is expose your files over HTTP (I do this with my NAS and it works fine).

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

makomk wrote: post #89
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.

If you expose your local media over HTTP (doesn't even need to be world-accessible), a Chromecast on the same network can play it.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by Sargos »

mattmcknight wrote: post #130
Sargos wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.wav is not a music format. It's meant for pure sound clips and doesn't even have the capability of adding metadata like artist and song name. If you care about sound quality then just use FLAC. The streaming quality from Google Music is top notch, it just seems that you had a problem getting the music into the service due to an antiquated format.

The problem is with this part of the statement: "Google Cast Ready speakers pull content directly from the cloud, so you’ll get the best audio quality" Pulling content from the cloud doesn't not mean you'll get "the best" audio quality.

Streaming over the internet will yield better quality than a Bluetooth stream which compresses the music. The bits that hit the speaker are as high quality as the source material.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by taternuts »

Sargos wrote: post #120
taternuts wrote: post #109

>"Google Cast streams your music directly from the cloud instead of from your phone, so you won’t lose any sound quality." Huh??? This is almost _never_ the case in my opinion, especially when using popular cloud services for music playback. Pretty sure I just had to nerf a high quality .WAV file to a .WMV 20 minutes ago before I could even upload it to google music.

.wav is not a music format. It's meant for pure sound clips and doesn't even have the capability of adding metadata like artist and song name. If you care about sound quality then just use FLAC. The streaming quality from Google Music is top notch, it just seems that you had a problem getting the music into the service due to an antiquated format.

FLAC get's compressed to 320 by google music anyways

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by Cub3 »

Is it just me or has anyone else been waiting for multi-room audio, I don't understand why I can't 'cast' to two locations at once?

Seems like they'd take the Sonos market pretty easily if/when implemented

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by andybak »

iheart2code wrote: post #121
andybak wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can a UPnP renderer pull audio from a cloud service requiring login and authentication? Genuine question.

Some cloud services get around this by accepting a single-use auth token in the URL for the media file/stream.

Yep. I can really imagine explaining THAT to my dad!

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by tracker1 »

Zigurd wrote: post #126
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.

Any Bluetooth audio adapter will do, and it will do for iOS devices, too. Unless you want a longer tether than Bluetooth allows there is no advantage to "casting." Perhaps if one could cast to multiple Chomecasts...

That would be disturbing if you could hear more than one at a time, there will be variance in delay...

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by tracker1 »

_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…

Well, there's Plex, but that's slightly different... I've been thinking of taking some of the work from mediacenterjs, and the chromecast stuff for node.js and coming up with a media center that outputs to a chromecast device, and controls via a phone/tablet.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by Zigurd »

tracker1 wrote: post #138
Zigurd wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any Bluetooth audio adapter will do, and it will do for iOS devices, too. Unless you want a longer tether than Bluetooth allows there is no advantage to "casting." Perhaps if one could cast to multiple Chomecasts...

That would be disturbing if you could hear more than one at a time, there will be variance in delay...

I suppose that depends on how it's done. Sonos manages to network multiple speakers and coordinate playback.
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