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AirPlay Whole of house in Sync with JRiver Media Center 20!

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jmone:

--- Quote from: Hilton on February 21, 2015, 06:20:41 am ---Thanks Nathan. It was worth it.  My wife lets me pipe music through the whole house now. :)

I used the AirBubble AirPlay receiver on Android and managed to get sync locked.

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Mmmm - I did not have much success with this lastime with lots of drop outs.  I presume this was due to the fact AirBubble actualy states they don't support sync.

--- Quote ---Limitations:
- Audio only, no video
- does not play in sync with other Airplay receivers
....
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That said, Any particular AirBubble settings you are using to get the sync locked and I'll give it another go.
Thanks
Nathan

jmone:
Trying Airbubble again and is is pretty good with the ability to Autostart and the adjustable buffers so you can get it in sync on each device...but I still get the odd audible packet drop.  

Edit: Yup as they say - it definitely does not support Airplay Sync.  If I extend the players buffer to say 500ms then I don't get the drop outs but the end up out of sync.  Dropping the buffer to 100ms and while they stay "better" in sync you get the little drop outs and it still ends up out of sync with the HW AirPlayer speaker (but they do stay in sync between two Airbubble devices).

RussellS:

--- Quote from: 6233638 on February 21, 2015, 10:02:46 am ---The only thing I will say is that bspachman and I have both run into issues where the Airfoil Speakers app connects and says that it's receiving audio, but does not actually play anything.
That's not really been an issue for me, since most of my playback is to hardware receivers and those have all worked perfectly for me, but it is worth mentioning.

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This is exactly the issue I am experiencing. Unfortunately I don't have any hardware receivers so I am limited to using Airfoil Speakers. TuneBlade always seems to connect ok but it is very hit 'n' miss whether it actually transmits any audio. Also, if I can get it to play I am getting a lot of dropouts and losing sync.

6233638:

--- Quote from: RussellS on February 22, 2015, 02:27:23 am ---This is exactly the issue I am experiencing. Unfortunately I don't have any hardware receivers so I am limited to using Airfoil Speakers. TuneBlade always seems to connect ok but it is very hit 'n' miss whether it actually transmits any audio. Also, if I can get it to play I am getting a lot of dropouts and losing sync.
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I'm not sure that it's TuneBlade at fault, because I have had no such issues with hardware AirPlay receivers, Shairport4w, or Reflector as AirPlay clients.
However Airfoil Speakers is the only software-based receiver available for Windows that supports sync, as far as I am aware.
 
I've contacted the developers about it, so hopefully it is something they can fix.
As for the constant dropouts and loss of sync, that sounds like it is either an issue related to TuneBlade's buffer size, or your network.

RussellS:

--- Quote from: 6233638 on February 22, 2015, 10:57:52 am ---I'm not sure that it's TuneBlade at fault, because I have had no such issues with hardware AirPlay receivers, Shairport4w, or Reflector as AirPlay clients.

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Well I thought that initially. However, if I use the AirFoil application instead of TuneBlade to capture the audio and send it the the AirFoil Speakers devices then it all works fine. Always plays back, no dropouts and no sync issues. Unfortunately I can't find any way to set it up as a zone within MC.


--- Quote from: 6233638 on February 22, 2015, 10:57:52 am ---As for the constant dropouts and loss of sync, that sounds like it is either an issue related to TuneBlade's buffer size, or your network.

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As I said above, I don't get this issue with AirFoil and I have tried playing with TuneBleade's buffer size. Also the 3 PC's I'm testing this with are all on a wired gigabit network so there shouldn't be any network issues.

Anyway, I will persevere and if I have any success I will post here.

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