PasTim wrote: > > bpa wrote: > > Some user would like to have speakers that can be shared between > > multiple users (e.g. in a Kitchen) so some time it is used by LMS and at > > other time by service cast from phone/tablet - control of who using the > > speakers can be done from any casting phone/tablet and it does not > > require changing wires etc. or going onto a LMS controller. Ideally the > > Chromecast will behave just like a player - so user enables casting from > > a menu item on LMS controller/Web GUI and then plays. All chromecast > > devices would be supported such as Chromecast for TV, Chromecast TV (e.g > > Sony) and Chromecast Audio. > > > > A cheap device creates a LMS player which is not limited to playing > > audio just from LMS - flexibility.> I give in. Please all, just ignore me. > > The technology is baffling to > me. I can't see what is doing what unto what and how, or why. I have > read some blurb on the device, but couldn't make sense of it. > > Sorry for wasting people's time.[/QUOTE> > > These are very valid questions. With what is the device currently and > if the main objective is to use LMS, the benefit is very limited, I > think (okay, I know I'm trying to do a bridge for it ... so what am I > doing ?). For use LMS, it is just a smaller Raspberry Pi+squeezelite > and even if I succeed to do a bridge, you miss the synchronisation > that squeezelite provide. So, as of today and from a usage point of > view, integrating UPnP I think is much more useful, I totally agree > with you. > > What I hope is that, in the future, more devices will natively > integrate this streaming technology (speakers, AV amps ...) and that > Google delivers on the promise of synchronisation protocol, so that I > have what I miss with Sonos: nicely designed and independant devices > AND synchro :) > > But again, I agree, as of today, and as LMS is my only source of audio > (and I don't intend to use native applications - I don't do that for > Sonos, or any other UPnP devices) there is no benefit to me.
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