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[Nicholas T]

Hi,

I'm exploring solutions to play music in various rooms around my home and just wondering what you guys are doing?

Currently, I use MC28 on my PC, sync playlists to my phone and then play via a few portable BT speakers (Megaboom 3 etc) around the home.

I'm checking out Gizmo for the family to use as well.  That seems ok so far.

Are these the main 2 ways that most MC users are using to play music around the home?

Thanks!
Nicholas

[Scobie]

I've got everything hooked into my home network and play from MC using DLNA. Gives a lot of flexibility and can control from the phone or tablet.

[Nicholas T]

Hi Scobie,

Thanks for your reply.

When you say "everything".  What exactly do you have hooked in?  Phones, tablets, smart speakers...?

Thank you!
Nicholas

[JimH]

If you haven't done so, please read the Media Network topic on our wiki.

[Scobie]

When you say "everything".  What exactly do you have hooked in?  Phones, tablets, smart speakers...?

Apologies for being obtuse, by "everything" I mean anything that is network enabled that is part of my music setup: Speakers, Receivers, Blu Ray,  and my music library on a NAS (or media server). I can control all of these from MC whether it is on a phone or tablet with JRemote/Panel or PC/laptop with MediaCenter.

Good advice from Jim, have a read of that to get your head around the different components of a home network music setup.

[Nicholas T]

Thanks Jim and Scobie for your replies.

I forgot there was a wiki!   

Cheers,
Nicholas

[Richard Martin]

In addition to the above, I also use MO 4Media on my phone to play music in my car via Android Auto. 

[JTrt]

Richard, when you use MO 4Media on AA, will it load your entire library? Mine (2200+ albums) just spins forever. Same thing happens with Bandcamp. While I'm complaining, Youtube Music on AA says my library is empty. I can use the applications on my phone to play music and it will be mirrored on AA, but that's not the point.  Thanks.

[Richard Martin]

Richard, when you use MO 4Media on AA, will it load your entire library? Mine (2200+ albums) just spins forever. Same thing happens with Bandcamp. While I'm complaining, Youtube Music on AA says my library is empty. I can use the applications on my phone to play music and it will be mirrored on AA, but that's not the point.  Thanks.

I have 1280 albums but I rarely, if ever try to load the whole library on MO 4 Media.  I have a variety of smart lists that are limited to 100 tracks each and usually play one of those.

[cncb]

Mine (2200+ albums) just spins forever.

See the setting in the MO 4Media AA app "Maximum number of browse items" and change it to a lower number.  Browsing long lists in AA is not convenient so I would recommend making a custom view with albums grouped by letter.  See the MO 4Media thread if you have more questions.

To the original question, I have a Denon AVR in my main listening area and some Kindle (Android) tablets spread around the house.  I use a phone remote (MO 4Media, of course  ) to control DLNA push playback from the server to the AVR and playback directly in MO 4Media on the tablets (analog out to speakers or bluetooth for audio).