[Cialug] In-home music - SOLVED

[Josh More]

It was an Amazon Gold Box special.  :)

I did zero research.  I saw a bluetooth audio receiver for $20 and thought
"why not?"

I do not transmit with it, I use it in receive mode only.  It is cheaply
made, the instructions are crap, and mine has two buttons labled RX even
though one of them is TX.  However, for my needs, it works perfectly.  I
listened to it for 12 hours yesterday with no drops or stuttering.  The
only problem is when my tablet generates an alert, the sound volume dips
for half a second.

-Josh


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Don Cady <doncady at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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