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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?
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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.
But I've always wondered about this argument - Why wouldn't you put your local music library on Google music? It's free and means you've got access to your library everywhere. I could understand before they had matching that uploading 100+GB of music is probably not desirable, but it now even big libraries are fully uploaded in a day or so.
>"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.
Wow, it seems like this will take a while to come out and I didn't see any word on pricing. A good alternative to this is a Beep. Beep sells devices that plug into any speakers audio jack to let you stream music from your phone. What's better is that it also syncs up multiple units so you can have your music in sync across your house. We've used them in our office a few times and love them. https://www.thisisbeep.com
This would be a killer feature if true.
Mopidy is an extensible music server that plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a range of MPD and web clients.
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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.
Bluetooth speakers: Unbelievable but they also stream sound which is only locally on mobile phone. Why do all Googlers think that everybody in the whole world has good wifi everywhere?
That said, reading up on A2DP, it seems that A2DP supports higher quality audio streams, but I have yet to see anyone advertise such in their products.
well, i guess that means miracast is done for.
I have a Miracast setup with over a second latency for video. When it works at all.
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.