ashleyw wrote: > hey guys, for several years I was running RPI2s with hifiberry cards in > them for syncd multi room using squeezelite primarily with Triodes > Spotify plugin - the sync was never that great. > Fro the last 4 months I've been running 9 x Chromecast audio - they work > brilliantly and the integration into android is slick (along with the > setup) and audio quality is brilliant. The sync over wifi is 100%, and > it's trivial to group/re group audio zones etc, there are no audio drop > outs at all. I must say I haven't looked back at all and even my family > can operate the Chromecast audios so WAF is good (and CCs are cheap). > > With things like Plex (for local music libraries) supporting audio cast, > what is the use case for the squeezebox ecosystem any more (just > checking before I sell all my RPIs in case I've missed something). > > any thoughts?
Have to Transporters. Sounds much better than CC. Dynamic playlists, rating, replay gain, lastmix plugin combined with local music and Tidal ..... A few good reasons... Callesoroe Living room: Transporter, Tact RCS 2.2X digital preamp, Martin Logan Vista speakers, AMPS(Icepower): Acoustic Reality Ear Enigma PLUS(PANELS), Acoustic Reality Ear TWO MKII(Bas) Kitchen: Receiver - S.M.S.L DAC, Prodipe Pro 5 active bi-amp speakers. Bedroom: Receiver+UE boombox, Kids: Receiver+Active speakers, Office: Transporter, JBL LSR305 active speakers , TIDAL HIFI flac streaming. http://www.last.fm/user/callesoroe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ callesoroe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22693 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106113 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
