Re: best way to play/stream music through a house?

[Robert Godridge]

We will have a sony docking thingy (I forget which moddle) in the living room.
I'd love to be able to send the audio from my mixer wirelessly to this
or through bluetooth. I'm a record collector and have my turntable
hooked up through my mixer as well as my computer, which is able to
listen to my turntable/rest of my mixer through phono cables. Does
this make sense?

On 3/31/17, Norma A. Boge <nab...@mchsi.com> wrote:
> The Echo is ok for casual, or background,  listening but if one wants to
> enjoy a lossless stream or files the Echo's sound quality is less than
> adequate.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Humberto
> Rodriguez
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:17 PM
> To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
> Subject: RE: best way to play/stream music through a house?
>
> The best way is using Echo.
> Humberto
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert
> Godridge
> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:43 PM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
> Subject: best way to play/stream music through a house?
>
> I'm just curious, what would be the best way to play/stream audio throughout
> the house these days?
> Does anyone know of any accesseable wireless speakers for example, or
> streaming servers that can be used with them?
> I'd rather not have to use i-devices but my wife does have an iphone.
> I'd like to play flac etc too...
> Just curious...
> Rob
>
>
>
>

RE: best way to play/stream music through a house?

[Norma A. Boge]

The Echo is ok for casual, or background,  listening but if one wants to enjoy 
a lossless stream or files the Echo's sound quality is less than adequate.


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Humberto 
Rodriguez
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:17 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: best way to play/stream music through a house?

The best way is using Echo.
Humberto


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert 
Godridge
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:43 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: best way to play/stream music through a house?

I'm just curious, what would be the best way to play/stream audio throughout 
the house these days?
Does anyone know of any accesseable wireless speakers for example, or streaming 
servers that can be used with them?
I'd rather not have to use i-devices but my wife does have an iphone.
I'd like to play flac etc too...
Just curious...
Rob

Re: best way to play/stream music through a house?

[Dane Trethowan]

I'm glad you mentioned the echo, as I now have both Google Home and 
Amazon echo assistants, I believe that - if streaming through your house 
is your thing - then a Google assistant is certainly worth having.


You can use your Google Home Assistant to stream to Chromecast 
compatible devices and these range from the original Chromecast Audio 
and Chromecast itself to speakers with Chromecast built-in, Televisions 
with Chromecast built-in etc.


Suppose you had a Chromecast device connect to your entertainment 
system, you could say something to Google Home Like, "Okay Google Play 
ABBA on Lounge'.


Google home would then respond with something like, "Okay Playing ABBA 
From Google Play Music on Lounge" thus the music you then hear would 
come through your lounge entertainment system enabling you to continue 
using your Google Home for other tasks.


You could use a modifed version of the example above to use Google Home 
to stream your favourite radio station to your lounge so let's assume 
that you want to hear KNX 1070 Los Angeli's you could say, "Okay Google, 
Listen to KNX 1070 Los Angle's on Lounge".




On 31/03/2017 10:16 AM, Humberto Rodriguez wrote:

The best way is using Echo.
Humberto


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert 
Godridge
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:43 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: best way to play/stream music through a house?

I'm just curious, what would be the best way to play/stream audio
throughout the house these days?
Does anyone know of any accesseable wireless speakers for example, or
streaming servers that can be used with them?
I'd rather not have to use i-devices but my wife does have an iphone.
I'd like to play flac etc too...
Just curious...
Rob

Re: best way to play/stream music through a house?

[Dane Trethowan]

You could use your computer as the hub and the sound car shouldn't 
matter as you could use Software to capture the audio of your player or 
- as I said arlier - you could use Windows Media Player etc.


So now we know you are thinking of using your computer we can talk about 
other equipment you may have in your house that you wish to stream to, 
have you got an amplifier or some sort of entertainment system in the 
louge that you fancy streaming to for example?




On 31/03/2017 10:58 AM, Robert Godridge wrote:

We have amazon ecco but like Dane said, flac would be an issue.

I have a very analog setup, an old numarc mixer with a generic
soundcard going to my computer but that would have to change to stream
throughout the house and I know it.
I like the idea of Cast To I'd not heard of it!

On 3/31/17, Dane Trethowan  wrote:

Okay, so how would one stream high quality FLAC files and so on with echo?



On 31/03/2017 10:16 AM, Humberto Rodriguez wrote:

The best way is using Echo.
Humberto


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert
Godridge
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:43 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: best way to play/stream music through a house?

I'm just curious, what would be the best way to play/stream audio
throughout the house these days?
Does anyone know of any accesseable wireless speakers for example, or
streaming servers that can be used with them?
I'd rather not have to use i-devices but my wife does have an iphone.
I'd like to play flac etc too...
Just curious...
Rob

Re: best way to play/stream music through a house?

[Robert Godridge]

We have amazon ecco but like Dane said, flac would be an issue.

I have a very analog setup, an old numarc mixer with a generic
soundcard going to my computer but that would have to change to stream
throughout the house and I know it.
I like the idea of Cast To I'd not heard of it!

On 3/31/17, Dane Trethowan  wrote:
> Okay, so how would one stream high quality FLAC files and so on with echo?
>
>
>
> On 31/03/2017 10:16 AM, Humberto Rodriguez wrote:
>> The best way is using Echo.
>> Humberto
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert
>> Godridge
>> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:43 PM
>> To: PC Audio Discussion List 
>> Subject: best way to play/stream music through a house?
>>
>> I'm just curious, what would be the best way to play/stream audio
>> throughout the house these days?
>> Does anyone know of any accesseable wireless speakers for example, or
>> streaming servers that can be used with them?
>> I'd rather not have to use i-devices but my wife does have an iphone.
>> I'd like to play flac etc too...
>> Just curious...
>> Rob
>>
>>
>
>
>

Re: best way to play/stream music through a house?

[Dane Trethowan]

Okay, so how would one stream high quality FLAC files and so on with echo?



On 31/03/2017 10:16 AM, Humberto Rodriguez wrote:

The best way is using Echo.
Humberto


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert 
Godridge
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:43 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: best way to play/stream music through a house?

I'm just curious, what would be the best way to play/stream audio
throughout the house these days?
Does anyone know of any accesseable wireless speakers for example, or
streaming servers that can be used with them?
I'd rather not have to use i-devices but my wife does have an iphone.
I'd like to play flac etc too...
Just curious...
Rob

RE: best way to play/stream music through a house?

[Humberto Rodriguez]

The best way is using Echo.
Humberto


-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Robert 
Godridge
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 6:43 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List 
Subject: best way to play/stream music through a house?

I'm just curious, what would be the best way to play/stream audio
throughout the house these days?
Does anyone know of any accesseable wireless speakers for example, or
streaming servers that can be used with them?
I'd rather not have to use i-devices but my wife does have an iphone.
I'd like to play flac etc too...
Just curious...
Rob

Re: best way to play/stream music through a house?

[Dane Trethowan]

You've plenty of options.

AirPlay is getting rather old now and - as you'd rather stay away from 
iDevices - then AirPlay is really a No Go option given you want to play 
FLAC and the like.


Perhaps it might help if you could give us a rundown of equipment you 
currently have or you think you might use, you've said your Wife has an 
iPhone so that alone indicates that integrating Apps into your streaming 
system would be a nice option? That can be done.


If you're using Windows 7 plus on your computer then you can stream 
content by using the built-in Cast To Device setting in Windows or 
Windows Media player itself using DLNA


There are heaps of DLNA compatible speakers around or - if you'd rather 
use your existing amplifier - then a Tuner/Streamer attached to it - 
preferably using a digital link - would be a good and logically option.


Further to all of this you might abandon your computer for storage of 
your music and choose to use a network compatible hard drive which gives 
you more flexibility, the ability to stream your music remotely and so on.


This brief introduction - for want of a better word - only scrapes the 
surface.




On 31/03/2017 9:42 AM, Robert Godridge wrote:

I'm just curious, what would be the best way to play/stream audio
throughout the house these days?
Does anyone know of any accesseable wireless speakers for example, or
streaming servers that can be used with them?
I'd rather not have to use i-devices but my wife does have an iphone.
I'd like to play flac etc too...
Just curious...
Rob