Check out Raspberry Pi with Kodi software as your main audio/video library manager. Cheap, easy to use and you can use BubbleUPNP to cast music to your Chromecast. I have Chromecast Audio connected to all amps in my house and use phone to cast music from library stored on my NAS box to any amp in the house. Pretty inexpensive Sonos alternative.
Need suggestions for streaming files to my stereo
Hello everyone. I'm looking for a way to stream files (AAC, ALAC, FLAC) to my home stereo. The files are on my PC laptop, or on iTunes on my iPhone etc. I pretty much exhausted my budget on my power amp and speakers so Im looking for the best budget pieces I can afford to get the music flowing for now. I currently have Kef ks50s, a Red Dragon S500, a SMSL Sanskrit, and a Google Chromecast Audio. I'll likely pick up a Schiit SYS preamp.
With this current setup I can only pretty much stream Pamdora, since Itunes won't work with the CCA. It's looking like the lowest cost option available is to use different software to handle the music files such as JRiver, or PowerDVD Ultra, but I'm unsure if this is the best way? Any other ideas, software, hardware etc? I have an insanely low budget of around $200 left to buy the rest, let's see what you guys can think of.
With this current setup I can only pretty much stream Pamdora, since Itunes won't work with the CCA. It's looking like the lowest cost option available is to use different software to handle the music files such as JRiver, or PowerDVD Ultra, but I'm unsure if this is the best way? Any other ideas, software, hardware etc? I have an insanely low budget of around $200 left to buy the rest, let's see what you guys can think of.