[Cialug] In-home music - SOLVED

[David Champion]

I like the Synology NAS boxes, they're pretty slick.

They have a ton of optional features... even though I wouldn't use a lot of
them (i.e. run a Wordpress site on it?).

-dc


On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Josh More <jmore at starmind.org> wrote:

> 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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