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Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by krrrh » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 5:19 AM UTC

Cub3 wrote: post #136

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

As a recent Sonos convert, I really think that they are going to be hard to catch in terms of nailing so many aspects of the user experience. Not least of which is how good the hardware (esp the Play:1 speakers) sound and look. I Have to admit how surprised I was to learn that the same company that made those janky wall controller systems a decade ago is now the second largest speaker company in the world.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by notatoad » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 5:28 AM UTC

danellis wrote: post #148

gcb0 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can't reply deeper... this is for the Yamaha comment next to this: disable auto resolution. it usually fixes this.

> can't reply deeper What's that all about, then?

When people start replying to each other too quickly, HN makes you take a bit of cooling off time.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by notatoad » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 5:31 AM UTC

acgourley wrote: post #19

Note the lack of spotify support. It's turning into a bit of a showdown between players like google cast and spotify connect. There will definitely be a small market in building devices which can serve as bridges between the standards.

I'm not sore what Spotify gets out of this - why bother pushing your own protocol, why not just make your music work as many places as possible?

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by rasz_pl » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 7:27 AM UTC

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...

$4 BT audio dongles like this one

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5mm-USB-Bluetooth-Wireless-Stereo-...

will work fine, only problem is double compression of audio - it sounds like crap

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by shekhar101 » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 7:58 AM UTC

Totally unrelated but I have to know this! Somebody posted an article many months back that talked about DIY audio system that gives run for money to Bose, Beats and likes. It was open source design by an anon electrical engineer. Anyone knows what was it?

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by pinot » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 9:11 AM UTC

danellis wrote: post #150

makomk wrote: post #89

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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.

> At least that lets you stream your local music collection What makes you assume that Google Cast wouldn't? You can stream your local video collection to a Chromecast. In fact, how is it restricted at all? If it works like a Chromecast does, the SDK is open and anyone can write receiver apps to run on it. How much more open do you need it to be?

Not natively though, you have to use Plex or play the video in Chrome.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by antihero » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 9:20 AM UTC

_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…

Have you heard of Subsonic? The web client supports casting, and so does the amazing paid firm of the Android client, Dsub.

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by rikkus » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 10:02 AM UTC

deanclatworthy wrote: post #91

rikkus wrote: post #74

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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.

It looks like the problem that gave me crackles when using the audio output jack may have been fixed with a firmware update. Thanks, you gave me reason to check and I might be able to put my Pi back into service!

https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/128#issuecomment...

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by icebraining » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 10:10 AM UTC

andybak wrote: post #137

iheart2code wrote: post #121

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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!

Why would you need to explain it?

Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio

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Post by corobo » Tue, Jan 06, 2015, 10:23 AM UTC

commandar wrote: post #32

_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…

>Plus it's a fully Linux environment that I can fine tune as desired You are not the Chromecast's target audience.

I'm so glad someone else is aware of this fact. Every time I see someone blatantly not the target market I think back to that dude that shot down Dropbox because he could do everything they were planning on his Linux box.

Dude should have been asking for a ground floor share holding job rather than shooting it down if he was able to so easily do it