[Cialug] In-home music - SOLVED

[Don Cady]

Ok, why did you choose the Miccus? Do you transmit with it also, was it the
range, or the recommendation of someone?

Don


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> Quite some time ago, I had a thread about streaming music in the house.
> Before that time, I was using LTSP.  It's advantages were that it used
> diskless workstations that did PXE booting so I could play everything with
> XMMS with a dedicated interface.  It failed as my music collection grew
> larger, I increasingly wanted to spend time on systems that lacked easy GUI
> access and moved to a house where most of it was connected via WiFi.
>
> You guys suggested a lot of things, which all failed due to cost, lack of
> shuffle support (I did have a kludgey Perl script that randomized
> playlists, but, well, kludgey).  Plex was the most promising, but I never
> could get it to index all my files properly.
>
> Finally, today, I think I found something that works.  In the interest of
> closing the loop, here's what I'm doing:
>
> My core system is a Synology NAS.  It is running the Media Server app and
> configured to index the entire Audio folder.  Each stereo in my house has a
> Miccus Home RTX bluetooth receiver attached to it. I've paired each Miccus
> to a different Android device.  Each Android device has BubbleUPnP
> installed.
>
> The app not only allows me to stream from each device to it's paired
> receiver, but also (under limited testing) to any other BubbleUPnP instance
> on the network.  It gives me shuffle, zero additional fan noise in the
> room(s) and the ability to control what's going on in every room in my
> house. Also, unlike when I tried adding my Windows and OSX systems to the
> mix, there have been no skips at all.  Apparently an NVIDIA Tegra 3 running
> Android has more resources than an Intel Core i5-4200U running Windows
> 8.1.  Can't say I'm shocked.
>
> Total cost for the audio side of things is less than $200.
>
>
> -Josh
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