This is a way better solution than using Sonos. And it doesn't even require that much more effort getting set up. Top three reasons for getting Chromecast over Sonos: 1. OMG the price difference! 2. Wider ecosystem of apps for streaming. Sonos only support its own app which integrates (sometimes badly) with other apps... 3. Use the speaker hardware you already own.
@@rabbidpotatoegaming4514 Yeah, $150 for their smallest speaker that is the size of my google home? Hell no. You can buy a great set of bookshelf speakers and a chromecast for that amount and would probably sound better. Will definitely be louder and have more bass.
IceColdKilax I, too drooled over (overpriced) Sonos for years. Now Google has given me more than what I dreamt of for a fraction of the cost. Kicked Sonos right in the teef. :)
christian jensen Can't stream your own library with CC? It's quite easy to do with Plex. I'm sure there are other options, too. Plex works great for streaming your own library. I used it just the other day for that Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown album. Granted, I usually just use my Google Play Music subscription. Check out Plex, it's a wonderful program for organizing and playing all your media. It even has a Roku app.
This was such a good solution to get decent sound without shelling out tons of money. google killing this was such a massive blow. Zero affordable speakers out there have this functionality.
I was looking for a solution like this a few years ago but had the same experiences you mentioned. I ended up going with an FM transmitter module on my main audio source, which currently is Amazon Fire TV streaming Spotify and sometime Pandora. This worked well for my situation because I have a lot of tabletop radios throughout the rooms of my house and garage. Radios such as Tivoli and Bose. I even have one vintage Pioneer receiver in my office and bought a couple ebay cheapy vintage Sony tabletop radios for the backyard. The advantages of this system is that I have no syncing/paring to worry about - ever. No extra modules or wires to add to each receiver. And I can have unlimited number of receivers.
I'm a foodie and a working musician; great sound quality is essential for me and I really like what you've started here. Thank you. Music in the kitchen is the biggest advantage for me when I'm in recreational music mode, and having streaming throughout the house during a dinner party is very effective. My guests always ask how I do it and now I can refer them to your solutions too. I'm using Airport Express units pretty much exactly like you're using the pucks and helping the whole thing along with Airfoil. I agree that Airfoil has synch issues but for me, those were only a problem when I tried to mix Apple gear with anything else like Android or bluetooth devices. Blame Apple I suppose but I like that you're offering a low-cost option for in-synch streaming. My two-cents worth is that Airport Express units can be found used/cheap and if utilised in a Mac-only environment can produce a completely satisfactory result. Thanks again.
Damn son, nice house! You're a big reason why ours is fitted with hues. I've been considering buying these for the past year, didn't even know they all synced up like that.. AND optical audio?? Temptation...
thanks! and haha thats funny, well hope you are loving the hues! they are really such a great cheap option for the whole house (the chromecasts i mean)
techfreshness It's hard to say.. I'm *mainly* influenced by classical and rnb. I'm somewhere between Mozart and Dr. Dre (call me Nurse Dre lol) So I guess it falls somewhere in line with that. I don't discriminate much with genres, but don't get down much with country... Idk what I am, just musically fueled and experimental ;-)
A few things. First, awesome house. Second, awesome theater room. I really love the mood lighting and how you even have the couch lit up. Third, don't forget the quality of the audio also depends on the quality of the audio hardware/speakers. I don't want people complaining their music sounds bad because they're playing it on $20 dollar speakers they got from a garage sale. (Those people do exist, lol). Lastly, I do hope you consider using video Chromecast devices in your setups. With them, you can hook them up to the audio receivers via HDMI add them into that Home group you're using in this video.
thanks a lot mike, glad you were liking the digs. as far as video chromecasts, i might play around with one to see how they sync up, but i'm already more invested in the apple side of things for videos as i use apple tv's and me and my girl use iphones already
That's fine. Just be aware that Google Casting works with iOS mobile devices as well, plus, no law against having both the Apple TV AND the Chromecast video. =) In any case, thank you for your investment and demos on the Chromecast Audio side.
Nice video! I am a Sonos guy and I did not realize that the new chromecast can do seamless distributed home audio. Sounded awesome. Because of the price of Sonos it has taken me years to get the 4 zones in my house - I could have done this solution, including the cost of powered speakers for less than the cost of a Sonos play5. I love my Sonos though! ;-P
My son kitted out our house with Chromecast Audio, with zones for kitchen, lounge, office, and outside ... and (as a bonus) our bedroom TV and his bedroom TV are also Chromecast compatible ... you can pass audio to them too. We had heaps of old Logitech 2:1 speaker sets, some old AV gear, which turned a handfull of hockey pucks into a clever system. Not perfect though ... sometimes there is a sync issue ... not very often. Great demo ... cheers and thanks! My $0.02
excellent matthew, you got a good son! btw, in the settings in the google home app, you can adjust the sync timing for each cc audio if it gets off, i have this problem sometimes with the soundbar in my living room i think because it undergoes some DSP, but i moved the delay slider and it fixed it
you can stream the same audio to multiple rooms using apple tv's, i do this all the time. itunes lets you choose the airplay devices..also you can use the remote app to enable/disable speakers/airplay devices
That seemingly random LED mode is actually a game of snake, admittedly an odd one, seeing that the vertical axis is slanted tot the left. There's a random blinking key on the keyboard and the snake which you can control with the numpad arrow keys. I just bought this keyboard today and I'm really enjoying it.
Very interesting, thank you. The white plastic box you have your surge protector and cables in cuts visual clutter nicely. Can you provide a link to that product?
hey robert, yeah they are amzn.to/2gpI9lW in case you haven't found by now (kind of expensive for a plastic box tbh), but they work great, i have 3 of them ha
Thanks for the comprehensive review! I've ordered a couple of Chromecasts. Googling, I unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out a solution for Audio books yet though. I'm using Audible, Storytel and CloudBeats on iOS. You don't happen to have any ideas for how to get audio books playing through CC audio? Thanks again for all the great info.
i don't unless any of those services have a web app, then you could stream it from your browser. otherwise you just gotta hope they support it in the future
I use Audible on my Pixel phone, in the drop down for android there's a cast icon that will cast anything on the phone to chromecast displays or speakers. Vizio has displays and speaker systems with chromecast built in so that's how I do it. Maybe there's something similar available with IOS? I don't know anything about iphones.
Thats awesome :) Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I guess it's an eco system thing. On iOS it works the same with anything AirPlay. It's native. However iOS does not support casting natively and Chromecast does not support receiving an AirPlay stream :/ The Chromecast Audio still rocks. Got two of them :) But this island:ing of eco systems is of course unfortunate :/
Grant Meinerding Cool. Then you probably won't mind giving me the login and passwords to all of your email and social networking accounts, right? I mean, if you have nothing to hide then what's the big deal? It's called privacy and it's worth more than you understand.
+Mojoman57 That's a bit different, Google already knows all my passwords and gmail and is a huge corporation, but still Google won't access my bank account or use my gmail or anything because they profit for services not stealing money, that would be against both my and Googles interests . You on the other hand aren't a international mega corporation which profits from serving the customers.
Fantastic work! Looking for other options to wire up whole house audio. Either going to run wires to all rooms, or go this route. Will probably cost the same for both setups. I love that everything syncs up perfectly in your setup, good work on Google's side.
Apple is all about the future and moving on from the past. "Think Different" . The future is entirely wireless systems. It really is more convenient that way. You wouldn't catch apple making this kind of device. He would not need this set up if he had newer hi-fi wireless systems which currently cost $$$$ for a multi room set up. Google however, tends to jump on the opportunity to make a money on easy solutions. I think its crazy that a device like this has not been around for years. I have been looking for years now, only to find most devices were of crappy quality.
Yeah. The only Apple Device I have is my iPhone. All my other tech is microsoft, windows or samsung. I don't lean towards apple or google or Microsoft. But I guess I am an idiot for believing the future is wireless. More companies are catching on to the train. I used to be like you, hostile against anyone that likes Apple. But I was broke back then.
I think that's the point of this setup: You can have the overall volume *lower* at each set of speakers, and still hear the music clearly throughout the house, unlike what my wanker neighbours do and crank their system full volume in their garage so they can hear it in the rest of their house... and the rest of the neighbourhood has to put up with their shitty music.
Quick tip for your audio with voice and a microphone that isn't the best: In whatever editor you use, you can make the audio 'mono' so theres no stereo separation and disorientation for the viewer
OMG thank you so much dude I was searching for this comment😂 I really like the song hahaha Greetings from germany, thanks for giving me the song name:)
I just hooked up one in garage on old Logitech 5.1 PC speakers, and one to Samsung 48" with DVD home theater. I just bought two more!!! Gonna hookup another 50"/Home Theater and my PC. Totally awesome product and great use for old PC speakers! Also it is over your WIFI not bluetooth so much better quality and you can walk away from your "speakers". Highly Recommended.
Don't you have to walk around the house and turn on all the audio equipment beforehand though? I really want to setup a system where I can turn everything on by talking or by my smart phone
yeah you still gotta kind of do that for the most part. i actually keep all my speakers on (well at least in the garage and basement), but that will change in the future, since i only use my basement speakers for music at the moment. but yeah i mean in the end you will typically have to end up switching your speakers/audio components over to the chromecast unless you have dedicated speakers just always on and that input selected. i don't really know of any good way around this for any reasonable price ha
I have one linked to a portable speaker like you have, but I feed it with a portable power bank. That way it is fully mobile again. If you want to fo that, do make sure that you get a power bank that has sufficient Amperage.
I had this setup all throughout my house, only for it to be rendered obsolete less than a year later by the Google Home Mini. Now I have 4 Mini’s throughout the house.
I don't get all these stupid ass IPUT IT ON FUCKiING wARPsPeEd and It sounDeD Normal comments its basically saying To them fuck you you talk too slow just go watch another video and before you tell me that it's just an opinion let me tell you keep it to yourself you don't need to let everyone know that you think he is slow
Had no idea they had mini toslink that's awesome. Thought they were limited to 3.5mm so I never really looked at them seriously since I already have a chrome cast and a fires stick.
you could use something like a raspberry pi zero with the audio hat to do the same thing for slightly less and you could control the music with internet
Darren Rainey, At that price I'd rather pay the extra few dollars for the Chromecast to get the simple setup and ease of casting directly from my music apps.
japzone yeah I understand the pi is better if you know what your doing and you can do allot more but the chromecast is super easy to use and works with most phones out of the box
Nice! We do something similar at my place. We got like 6 Apple Airport Express as our APs, and got some Bose Speakers attached to them. Then we can use iTunes to play Apple music on all of them simultaneously, without any lag.
Don't you think they could have built the audio into the regular chromecast devices, just include a stereo jack, then they wouldn't have to produce two devices. Both the Audiocast and the regular chromecast cost the same I think, it blows my mind they didn't just merge them. Also, have you tried out the speakers with built in chromecast? I just got the Vizio 360 crave and think it's pretty great, it's portable and sounds good.
They're both $35, on sale right now for $25. The Chromecast Ultra which runs 4k video is $69. The regular chromecast has an HDMI output, they could simply add a 3.5mm port to it or just make a low cost HDMI -> 3.5mm adapter. Making one device would cost less in manufacturing than making two devices and so the price could probably remain relatively the same. This is U.S. prices, I don't know where you're getting your prices from. www.store.google.com
Nice video. I happened to just get a chromecast audio myself since it was free when you purchase it with a Google Home. I wanted to replace the Echo and Echo Dot (they are so bad. It can rarely answer questions correctly, thinks commands are questions, may or may not do the commands it supports, and triggers on words and even sounds that are not even remotely similar to the trigger words - which then causes it to listen to what is being said and then doesn't know how to answer the "question".) since I wanted to be able to play audio from any of my devices to the speaker system in the living room. I noticed it had whole home support and knew that would be awesome once I have a bigger place and have multiple sound systems. Btw, I don't know if anyone else noticed that you had ElectricSheep rocking as your screensaver. I LOVE it so much, especially as something to look at while listening to music (even though it isn't a visualizer it usually works surprisingly well).
oh man free chromecast with the home thats a great deal. interesting the issues you were having with the echos, i actually prefer mine over the home, although the home is awesome for queing up music verbally to all the chromecasts. maybe i like the echo just because i had it first, but for the most part i don't find that it answers many more questions vs the echo, especially search queries that i thought it would be more useful for (since generally i need to see search results to be useful).....great call on the electric sheep btw, great app!
Well that was the biggest frustration with the Echoes, but the biggest deal breaker was the difference of GHome understanding natural language and, more importantly, context. Alexa just uses static commands that it looks up in a database so if you don't say it in a specific, formal manner then it doesn't understand what you meant. GHome understands that not everyone is going to say the same thing in the same way and even the same person will have variances in the same query. Regarding context you tend to want to ask follow-up questions if you are giving it a fact-based question. Say you want to find a sushi place near you. You can ask both where the closest one is, but then if you ask it questions about a particular result GHome will understand what you mean where Alexa will say it doesn't know the answer to the question. Regarding what you said about needing to see search results to be useful, that is dependent on the type of search you are doing and in that case neither will be helpful.
You CAN use various Apple TVs in the same wireless network, but you need a Mac (iTunes lets you use multiple audio sources if they allow Airplay). Using an Apple TV to use it with a Windows PC is not ideal, in the same way as using Chromecast with a Mac as you may lose many features. The major drawbacks of this are that they are not so cheap, they are bigger than the chromecast audio and you can't broadcast to multiple devices with an iphone or the TV interface, as far as I know, but I'll look if there's some option in it, which I doubt.
I have checked it already and you can stream music to all AirPlay devices without the Mac and using the Apple TV interface, so you can also control it from the iPhone if you use the Remote app or just sending the music to the Apple TV
This works better than sonos, we have a sonos system in our home but first of all you'll have to make use of the streaming abilities that sonos provides. Secondly when you unplug one of your speakers you might find that the music stops playing 'cause all of a sudden he cant find one of them. and lastly making the connection with your home network is quite a hazel and it doesn't work automatically.
I've tried them and they're pretty crap. Very cheap - true, but the range is very low and you get noticeable noise with distance. It's bearable when running in a mono setup, but in stereo there's just too much noise. Plus its illegal in some countries. ;) This looks like a much better solution.
the 3.5 mm on your party speaker is completely tense, if this was my setup i'd attach it with velcro to the speaker so the cable isn't potentially damaging the chrome cast, and it looks pretty precarious, and things will probably get knocked over at parties nice review though and some sick speakers
Really really well done! Well explained, well demonstrated, well paced. A fantastic video that I will be pointing friend family and clients to when they ask me to explain Chromecast Audio. Thank you for your time and efforts.
Thank you for the review. I had actually considered a similar setup a while back where I was planning on placing Vanatoo's around the house but as I was having to buy all new speakers anyway, I actually took the Sonos route especially as I managed to get a hefty discount. For my media room upstairs I will use the Chromecast Audio with an optical cable if I want to just sit and listen to really detailed music as that is a full surround setup with Energy RC70's for the front with a Rythmik F12SE for the sub. I really had no need to integrate the two floors. Downstairs if a Playbar, PlaySub, Play5, and a Play1. I wouldn't mind a couple additional speakers here or there but I just didn't have anything sitting around that I could easily place and not have a wife aggro factor. If I had extra speakers handing around the Chromecast Audio really is a no brainer. I use Google Play Music so not too concerned about having the highest FLAC level available at this point in time, but that may change.
nice setup man. yeah if i was starting from scratch, no speakers, i'd probably go sonos route as well. you got a great surround setup sounds like, those tower speakers are nice, i'm hoping to go with tower speakers as well in my media room. thansk for the comment!
I like the feng shui of your house :) seem like a chill dude so you've earnt my subscription and the notification bell :D keep the cool content coming x
Nice set up, but I think at this point it might be best to wait until Bluetooth 5.0 comes out which will have enough range to cover your entire house and yard.
Thank you so much for doing this video you saved me from buying a system that I didn't want allowing me to use speakers that I already have. Thanks so much!!! PS Nice Home!
Great review, now i just need a house. :)
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well if you have a massive system in can cost the same as a house
not a great house though
Lmfaoooooo 🤭🙌🏽😂😭😭 same
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That "tv stand" in your bedroom gives me chills... oO ;-)
He did say its a new house.
j jarry yes he did, but non the less: i'd be afraid to kick it down by passing it by... ;-)
Box could be fully of crap. So maybe there no worries.
still the boxe has no sturdyness at all pluss, with the bass, it could vibrate and fall.
@@TechBoss wen haben wir denn da? Die Welt ist klein. :D
this is awesome
having speakers everywhere playing in sync us waaay nicer than having 1 cranked up
This is a way better solution than using Sonos. And it doesn't even require that much more effort getting set up.
Top three reasons for getting Chromecast over Sonos:
1. OMG the price difference!
2. Wider ecosystem of apps for streaming. Sonos only support its own app which integrates (sometimes badly) with other apps...
3. Use the speaker hardware you already own.
But if someone has no speakers then I'm sure Sonos can be just as cheap for full house at just 150$ a speaker.
@@rabbidpotatoegaming4514 Yeah, $150 for their smallest speaker that is the size of my google home? Hell no. You can buy a great set of bookshelf speakers and a chromecast for that amount and would probably sound better. Will definitely be louder and have more bass.
Niklas Rasmusson wait so everything he said in the video???
Wow way to Put Sonos Out of Business, buying 3 Chromecasts tomorrow
IceColdKilax I, too drooled over (overpriced) Sonos for years. Now Google has given me more than what I dreamt of for a fraction of the cost. Kicked Sonos right in the teef. :)
but only with streaming services like spotify, you cant stream you own library :/
christian jensen Can't stream your own library with CC? It's quite easy to do with Plex. I'm sure there are other options, too. Plex works great for streaming your own library. I used it just the other day for that Vince Guaraldi Charlie Brown album. Granted, I usually just use my Google Play Music subscription. Check out Plex, it's a wonderful program for organizing and playing all your media. It even has a Roku app.
it is fully possible search spotify local files
@@christianjensen405 There are many apps including google play music that allow you to play all your local files and cast them
sweet video bro. i didn't imagine the chrome audio was that useful.
yeh man, glad you liked it
that's actually impressive how there was no delay between devices and systems. nice one.
Imagine accidentally watching porn on "Home" mode instead of your headphones ^^
ha, big oops
Shit happens;)
YEP.
This was such a good solution to get decent sound without shelling out tons of money. google killing this was such a massive blow. Zero affordable speakers out there have this functionality.
Sweet! I may try this later. Your videos always make me want to spend. Love the house too!
thanks snac. haha, a gift and a curse.
ha my b shane, i haven't uploaded it yet, but i will this week, sorry about that!
First thing first the house looks nice and thanks for the info really nice
I was looking for a solution like this a few years ago but had the same experiences you mentioned. I ended up going with an FM transmitter module on my main audio source, which currently is Amazon Fire TV streaming Spotify and sometime Pandora. This worked well for my situation because I have a lot of tabletop radios throughout the rooms of my house and garage. Radios such as Tivoli and Bose. I even have one vintage Pioneer receiver in my office and bought a couple ebay cheapy vintage Sony tabletop radios for the backyard.
The advantages of this system is that I have no syncing/paring to worry about - ever. No extra modules or wires to add to each receiver. And I can have unlimited number of receivers.
This is so cool I had no idea this could be done. I can definitely see myself doing something like this.
I'm a foodie and a working musician; great sound quality is essential for me and I really like what you've started here. Thank you. Music in the kitchen is the biggest advantage for me when I'm in recreational music mode, and having streaming throughout the house during a dinner party is very effective. My guests always ask how I do it and now I can refer them to your solutions too. I'm using Airport Express units pretty much exactly like you're using the pucks and helping the whole thing along with Airfoil. I agree that Airfoil has synch issues but for me, those were only a problem when I tried to mix Apple gear with anything else like Android or bluetooth devices. Blame Apple I suppose but I like that you're offering a low-cost option for in-synch streaming. My two-cents worth is that Airport Express units can be found used/cheap and if utilised in a Mac-only environment can produce a completely satisfactory result. Thanks again.
Damn son, nice house! You're a big reason why ours is fitted with hues. I've been considering buying these for the past year, didn't even know they all synced up like that.. AND optical audio?? Temptation...
thanks! and haha thats funny, well hope you are loving the hues! they are really such a great cheap option for the whole house (the chromecasts i mean)
techfreshness I definitely am! I make my own music so the thought of filling my whole house with it is kiiiinda bad ass lol
what kind of music?
techfreshness It's hard to say.. I'm *mainly* influenced by classical and rnb. I'm somewhere between Mozart and Dr. Dre (call me Nurse Dre lol) So I guess it falls somewhere in line with that. I don't discriminate much with genres, but don't get down much with country... Idk what I am, just musically fueled and experimental ;-)
ha thats cool, i love it all including some country........do you have a soundcloud?
NOYCE! Ballin on a budget. Thanks for the great idea. I just ordered myself (3) of these devices. Excellent video.
hehe, excellente. hope you enjoy them as much as i
That's fucking awesome. I didn't know that you could sync them up like that! Now I see why people might use them.
Thanks for taking the time to post this. Saved me from buying a SONOS setup that was just a bit much for days when i'm just cleaning the house!
ha, i hear that
for some reason, you saying 'auxiliary' completely, instead of saying it shorter as "ox or aux", soothed me. I don't know why.
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SlowlyLosinIt same here. Sooooothed.
A few things. First, awesome house. Second, awesome theater room. I really love the mood lighting and how you even have the couch lit up. Third, don't forget the quality of the audio also depends on the quality of the audio hardware/speakers. I don't want people complaining their music sounds bad because they're playing it on $20 dollar speakers they got from a garage sale. (Those people do exist, lol). Lastly, I do hope you consider using video Chromecast devices in your setups. With them, you can hook them up to the audio receivers via HDMI add them into that Home group you're using in this video.
thanks a lot mike, glad you were liking the digs. as far as video chromecasts, i might play around with one to see how they sync up, but i'm already more invested in the apple side of things for videos as i use apple tv's and me and my girl use iphones already
That's fine. Just be aware that Google Casting works with iOS mobile devices as well, plus, no law against having both the Apple TV AND the Chromecast video. =)
In any case, thank you for your investment and demos on the Chromecast Audio side.
Mike Wolf I haven't been able to figure out how to group my chrome cast audio and video devices. Is this supposed to be possible?
Nice video! I am a Sonos guy and I did not realize that the new chromecast can do seamless distributed home audio. Sounded awesome. Because of the price of Sonos it has taken me years to get the 4 zones in my house - I could have done this solution, including the cost of powered speakers for less than the cost of a Sonos play5. I love my Sonos though! ;-P
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I love the atmosphere in your basement room.
thansk a lot, i put some thought into it!
Gorgeous House man, keep up the great work!
preciate it samir
My son kitted out our house with Chromecast Audio, with zones for kitchen, lounge, office, and outside ... and (as a bonus) our bedroom TV and his bedroom TV are also Chromecast compatible ... you can pass audio to them too. We had heaps of old Logitech 2:1 speaker sets, some old AV gear, which turned a handfull of hockey pucks into a clever system. Not perfect though ... sometimes there is a sync issue ... not very often. Great demo ... cheers and thanks! My $0.02
excellent matthew, you got a good son! btw, in the settings in the google home app, you can adjust the sync timing for each cc audio if it gets off, i have this problem sometimes with the soundbar in my living room i think because it undergoes some DSP, but i moved the delay slider and it fixed it
THIS is why Google is leading.
Google the ultimate disrupter; say what you will of Alphabet, that's what they are.
you can stream the same audio to multiple rooms using apple tv's, i do this all the time. itunes lets you choose the airplay devices..also you can use the remote app to enable/disable speakers/airplay devices
Keep the party going in the bathroom..
ha, you don't wanna know WHAT goes on in there
Michael Armellino where the real magic happens
that's where the pissing everywhere an throwing up happens man!
That seemingly random LED mode is actually a game of snake, admittedly an odd one, seeing that the vertical axis is slanted tot the left. There's a random blinking key on the keyboard and the snake which you can control with the numpad arrow keys. I just bought this keyboard today and I'm really enjoying it.
congrats on the 10 k subs man! hope the channel grows a lot bigger by next year!
hey man thanks a lot!
Very nice video bro! Thinking of buying a Chromecast audio for my pc speakers and this video summons up nicely all the features and capabilities.
Very interesting, thank you. The white plastic box you have your surge protector and cables in cuts visual clutter nicely. Can you provide a link to that product?
hey robert, yeah they are amzn.to/2gpI9lW in case you haven't found by now (kind of expensive for a plastic box tbh), but they work great, i have 3 of them ha
Thanks for this video. I was thinking about Sonos and was complete unaware that Chromecast audio allowed this.
Dude your house is amazing!! May I ask what you do for a living?
yep yep, i do youtube now, but i did corporate finance for colgate palmolive for like 16 years. thanks a lot for the compliment, we love the house
techfreshness I might do finance as major, how long is your work week if you don’t mind me asking? Are the 60 hour work weeks true?
nice to see you back fresh!
Thanks for the comprehensive review! I've ordered a couple of Chromecasts. Googling, I unfortunately I haven't been able to figure out a solution for Audio books yet though. I'm using Audible, Storytel and CloudBeats on iOS. You don't happen to have any ideas for how to get audio books playing through CC audio? Thanks again for all the great info.
i don't unless any of those services have a web app, then you could stream it from your browser. otherwise you just gotta hope they support it in the future
techfreshness Thanks for the reply. Crossing fingers. CC Audio seems like some great tech.
I use Audible on my Pixel phone, in the drop down for android there's a cast icon that will cast anything on the phone to chromecast displays or speakers. Vizio has displays and speaker systems with chromecast built in so that's how I do it. Maybe there's something similar available with IOS? I don't know anything about iphones.
Thats awesome :) Thanks for the info. Unfortunately I guess it's an eco system thing. On iOS it works the same with anything AirPlay. It's native. However iOS does not support casting natively and Chromecast does not support receiving an AirPlay stream :/ The Chromecast Audio still rocks. Got two of them :) But this island:ing of eco systems is of course unfortunate :/
it really is
R.I.P. Chromecast Audio. I was able to get 3 of them when they went on sale for 15 bucks before it was discontinued.
nice man, yeah such a bummer, makes no sense, seems like they would have at least sold the biz or something
You should put one in the bathroom. Google will want to hear what's happening in there, too.
Mojoman57 there is not mic on the chromcasts
ryandudea72 paranoid...who cares if googl knows what ur doing anyway
Grant Meinerding Cool. Then you probably won't mind giving me the login and passwords to all of your email and social networking accounts, right? I mean, if you have nothing to hide then what's the big deal? It's called privacy and it's worth more than you understand.
Mojoman57 I just don't care if Google has audio From my house they can't do much with it amyways
+Mojoman57 That's a bit different, Google already knows all my passwords and gmail and is a huge corporation, but still Google won't access my bank account or use my gmail or anything because they profit for services not stealing money, that would be against both my and Googles interests . You on the other hand aren't a international mega corporation which profits from serving the customers.
I did exactly the same! Couldn’t have made a better decision, works perfectly and now with Google Home Mini, everything is under voice command.
it would be nice to do a intercom over the music.
Add a Google Home into the different rooms and say, "Hey Google, Broadcast keep the party goin'!" from your phone's google assistant.
Never seen you before but i enjoyed basically everything about this video
what's up with the right ear audio in this video?
It's in the left
Fantastic work! Looking for other options to wire up whole house audio. Either going to run wires to all rooms, or go this route. Will probably cost the same for both setups. I love that everything syncs up perfectly in your setup, good work on Google's side.
Now your home reminds me of Ikea
the setup + the house = awesome :) you just earned my sub
And then there is Apple.. making a Laptop without ports... so inovative!
Apple is all about the future and moving on from the past. "Think Different" . The future is entirely wireless systems. It really is more convenient that way. You wouldn't catch apple making this kind of device. He would not need this set up if he had newer hi-fi wireless systems which currently cost $$$$ for a multi room set up. Google however, tends to jump on the opportunity to make a money on easy solutions. I think its crazy that a device like this has not been around for years. I have been looking for years now, only to find most devices were of crappy quality.
redbaron19461676 you are an idiot. But that's ok, because of people like you Apple can make money...
Yeah. The only Apple Device I have is my iPhone. All my other tech is microsoft, windows or samsung. I don't lean towards apple or google or Microsoft. But I guess I am an idiot for believing the future is wireless. More companies are catching on to the train. I used to be like you, hostile against anyone that likes Apple. But I was broke back then.
also, USB-C is going to be the main port for most things soon. It is just so new that not many are using it right now. it is *innovation.
+redbaron19461676 Future is not sacrificing performance for looks and thinnes.
best one i seen on google voice yet,good job dude.
You are now one subscriber richer :)
Just got a couple Chromecast Audio's after seeing this video. Great job on the demo!
your neighbors don't complain?
It is in the day, and he lives in a house. I don't think it is too annoying for them
+Tobiashal in my house, you can hear music all the way in my neighbor's backyard from my littke Bluetooth speaker on max volume lol
did u saw the size of his freaking house? like srly.. lol
weird maybe that's because I live a colder country where the walls and windows are better insulated.
I think that's the point of this setup: You can have the overall volume *lower* at each set of speakers, and still hear the music clearly throughout the house, unlike what my wanker neighbours do and crank their system full volume in their garage so they can hear it in the rest of their house... and the rest of the neighbourhood has to put up with their shitty music.
Quick tip for your audio with voice and a microphone that isn't the best: In whatever editor you use, you can make the audio 'mono' so theres no stereo separation and disorientation for the viewer
oh man thats a great tip thanks a lot! i finally got a decent lapel mic setup now though, but good to know for when i use other cameras/mics
@@techfreshness Subscribed, you a nice lad
where you get that white box at 4:00
Jonathan Nguyen looks like IKEA
I also need to know
that's called CableBox (yes, really!). Manufacturer is BlueLounge, and it was around 50 euros back then. IKEA came with an alternative for 15 euros.
it really works great, remember you can use your mobile and set volume independently on each chromecast !
6:23 NOVO AMOR - Anchor (Argentum Remix)
wow, what an id, nice job, ha
OMG i love you! thanks !
OMG thank you so much dude I was searching for this comment😂 I really like the song hahaha
Greetings from germany, thanks for giving me the song name:)
Haha real dancehead. Respect
Thank you. I have been considering the same set up for my home and you on advertently answered many of my questions.
that's awesome man
I just hooked up one in garage on old Logitech 5.1 PC speakers, and one to Samsung 48" with DVD home theater. I just bought two more!!! Gonna hookup another 50"/Home Theater and my PC. Totally awesome product and great use for old PC speakers! Also it is over your WIFI not bluetooth so much better quality and you can walk away from your "speakers". Highly Recommended.
What mix was this, im feeling the song at 10:20 :D
Don't you have to walk around the house and turn on all the audio equipment beforehand though? I really want to setup a system where I can turn everything on by talking or by my smart phone
yeah you still gotta kind of do that for the most part. i actually keep all my speakers on (well at least in the garage and basement), but that will change in the future, since i only use my basement speakers for music at the moment. but yeah i mean in the end you will typically have to end up switching your speakers/audio components over to the chromecast unless you have dedicated speakers just always on and that input selected. i don't really know of any good way around this for any reasonable price ha
Your Tv📺is on a box. LoL
lol he just moved i saw it too lol
👍🏼 Are you in California? Nice 🏠
Nice🏠
ha lol and thanks, i love your emotes
emotes are cancer!
I have one linked to a portable speaker like you have, but I feed it with a portable power bank. That way it is fully mobile again. If you want to fo that, do make sure that you get a power bank that has sufficient Amperage.
i like it cose you listen to "di.fm" great music
haydeezz yes same😂😂
so great! and they just added chromecast support to ios
I had this setup all throughout my house, only for it to be rendered obsolete less than a year later by the Google Home Mini. Now I have 4 Mini’s throughout the house.
I could only hear you from the left side of my house..
Maybee Gaming 😂😅
hey maybee, not sure what you mean?
I'm teasing. Your audio isn't balanced.
oh yeh my b, i will fix that in the future its cuz the stereo mic on my camcorder and its to the right of my face, thanks for pointing that out.
nice review! glad to see you back on the tube!
ha thanks homie!
put this on 1.25 speed then it seemed normal
That's funny because it's true!
ha yeah? i need to light a fire then
Haha just tried @ .5 and he sounds drunk as fcuk!
I don't get all these stupid ass IPUT IT ON FUCKiING wARPsPeEd and It sounDeD Normal comments its basically saying To them fuck you you talk too slow just go watch another video and before you tell me that it's just an opinion let me tell you keep it to yourself you don't need to let everyone know that you think he is slow
That definitely helped but still good video.
Had no idea they had mini toslink that's awesome. Thought they were limited to 3.5mm so I never really looked at them seriously since I already have a chrome cast and a fires stick.
get yourself a lavalier mic and a recorder or hook it up to your camera.... the way you are talking you start normal and you end up in a mumble.
The home tour was amazing
How many people live in this house? As an Asian we could probably fit at least three generations in that backyard alone
lol man
Damn, lolololol!
you could use something like a raspberry pi zero with the audio hat to do the same thing for slightly less and you could control the music with internet
wouldn't really be less, need power supplies, wifi adapters, and some audio connection
monkey6573 Pi zero - £5
Audio Hat - £12
Wifi - £2-3
Adapters - £1
Power - £2 or use a usb cable with a phone charger
micro sd card - £5
Total - £26-27
Darren Rainey, At that price I'd rather pay the extra few dollars for the Chromecast to get the simple setup and ease of casting directly from my music apps.
japzone yeah I understand the pi is better if you know what your doing and you can do allot more but the chromecast is super easy to use and works with most phones out of the box
does anyone else Think that his voice sounds like jack black
@mikediegameing yeah I can hear it a little bit lol
ha, i never got that before
Nice! We do something similar at my place. We got like 6 Apple Airport Express as our APs, and got some Bose Speakers attached to them. Then we can use iTunes to play Apple music on all of them simultaneously, without any lag.
I feel bad for your neighbors
luckily they all pretty cool
Don't you think they could have built the audio into the regular chromecast devices, just include a stereo jack, then they wouldn't have to produce two devices. Both the Audiocast and the regular chromecast cost the same I think, it blows my mind they didn't just merge them. Also, have you tried out the speakers with built in chromecast? I just got the Vizio 360 crave and think it's pretty great, it's portable and sounds good.
Len Harms they do not cost the same the audio one is like 30-35$
The video one is like 45 - 50
If they made it do both it would cost like 60-70 $???
They're both $35, on sale right now for $25. The Chromecast Ultra which runs 4k video is $69. The regular chromecast has an HDMI output, they could simply add a 3.5mm port to it or just make a low cost HDMI -> 3.5mm adapter. Making one device would cost less in manufacturing than making two devices and so the price could probably remain relatively the same. This is U.S. prices, I don't know where you're getting your prices from. www.store.google.com
I think from google point of view it just simplifies the device and experience, and ofc the can sell more.
I can clearly see 666 on the logo, I will never buy that
ha, what logo? the chromecast or mine?
The chrome logo is like a 6 in three directions terrifictop10.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/google-chrome.jpg
techfreshness
the chromecast logo
yep exactly that's the right image
ha interesting, did you know they also changed their corporate 'don't be evil' motto?
Great effort in explaining the whole thing.Makes lot of sense. Good work as usual.. Thanks..
appreciate the support focuzzzz
Thank you! I've been looking for a easy solution that isn't expensive.
Nice video. I happened to just get a chromecast audio myself since it was free when you purchase it with a Google Home. I wanted to replace the Echo and Echo Dot (they are so bad. It can rarely answer questions correctly, thinks commands are questions, may or may not do the commands it supports, and triggers on words and even sounds that are not even remotely similar to the trigger words - which then causes it to listen to what is being said and then doesn't know how to answer the "question".) since I wanted to be able to play audio from any of my devices to the speaker system in the living room. I noticed it had whole home support and knew that would be awesome once I have a bigger place and have multiple sound systems.
Btw, I don't know if anyone else noticed that you had ElectricSheep rocking as your screensaver. I LOVE it so much, especially as something to look at while listening to music (even though it isn't a visualizer it usually works surprisingly well).
oh man free chromecast with the home thats a great deal. interesting the issues you were having with the echos, i actually prefer mine over the home, although the home is awesome for queing up music verbally to all the chromecasts. maybe i like the echo just because i had it first, but for the most part i don't find that it answers many more questions vs the echo, especially search queries that i thought it would be more useful for (since generally i need to see search results to be useful).....great call on the electric sheep btw, great app!
Well that was the biggest frustration with the Echoes, but the biggest deal breaker was the difference of GHome understanding natural language and, more importantly, context. Alexa just uses static commands that it looks up in a database so if you don't say it in a specific, formal manner then it doesn't understand what you meant. GHome understands that not everyone is going to say the same thing in the same way and even the same person will have variances in the same query. Regarding context you tend to want to ask follow-up questions if you are giving it a fact-based question. Say you want to find a sushi place near you. You can ask both where the closest one is, but then if you ask it questions about a particular result GHome will understand what you mean where Alexa will say it doesn't know the answer to the question. Regarding what you said about needing to see search results to be useful, that is dependent on the type of search you are doing and in that case neither will be helpful.
Very nicely done. I hadn't realized they could be used this way. Perhaps I will also be doing this sometime in the future.
The song that is playing is called Novo Amor - Anchor (boehm remix) if anyone wanted to know! I did some investigating!
You CAN use various Apple TVs in the same wireless network, but you need a Mac (iTunes lets you use multiple audio sources if they allow Airplay). Using an Apple TV to use it with a Windows PC is not ideal, in the same way as using Chromecast with a Mac as you may lose many features. The major drawbacks of this are that they are not so cheap, they are bigger than the chromecast audio and you can't broadcast to multiple devices with an iphone or the TV interface, as far as I know, but I'll look if there's some option in it, which I doubt.
I have checked it already and you can stream music to all AirPlay devices without the Mac and using the Apple TV interface, so you can also control it from the iPhone if you use the Remote app or just sending the music to the Apple TV
This works better than sonos, we have a sonos system in our home but first of all you'll have to make use of the streaming abilities that sonos provides. Secondly when you unplug one of your speakers you might find that the music stops playing 'cause all of a sudden he cant find one of them. and lastly making the connection with your home network is quite a hazel and it doesn't work automatically.
One FM transmitter and you will hear all perfectly synced, no delay no usb power needed, unless your ears are sensitive to super high frequencies.
I've tried them and they're pretty crap. Very cheap - true, but the range is very low and you get noticeable noise with distance. It's bearable when running in a mono setup, but in stereo there's just too much noise. Plus its illegal in some countries. ;) This looks like a much better solution.
THE MINISTRY OF GOOGLE!!!
AND I JUST LOVED YOUR HOME & SETUP !!!
thx angad, they do some great stuff for sure
the 3.5 mm on your party speaker is completely tense, if this was my setup i'd attach it with velcro to the speaker so the cable isn't potentially damaging the chrome cast, and it looks pretty precarious, and things will probably get knocked over at parties
nice review though and some sick speakers
Really really well done! Well explained, well demonstrated, well paced. A fantastic video that I will be pointing friend family and clients to when they ask me to explain Chromecast Audio. Thank you for your time and efforts.
sweet! thanks a lot, appreciate the comments and that you enjoyed the pace! its something i try to think about. many thanks for sharing too!
I did a six zone system for one of my clients just like this and it works perfect...
heck yeah man, what kind of work/business is that?
techfreshness I am a low voltage integrator in Florida..
ah cool man, i'm from melbourne florida. glad you was able to hook them up!
Pretty cool bro! much better than sonos system and also congratas you have a beautiful house man :)
well i don't know about 'better' but certainly cheaper. and thanks a lot, much more room than the 750sq ft we were in before!
you could use a little power back for your party speaker chromecast too.
Thank you for the review. I had actually considered a similar setup a while back where I was planning on placing Vanatoo's around the house but as I was having to buy all new speakers anyway, I actually took the Sonos route especially as I managed to get a hefty discount. For my media room upstairs I will use the Chromecast Audio with an optical cable if I want to just sit and listen to really detailed music as that is a full surround setup with Energy RC70's for the front with a Rythmik F12SE for the sub. I really had no need to integrate the two floors. Downstairs if a Playbar, PlaySub, Play5, and a Play1. I wouldn't mind a couple additional speakers here or there but I just didn't have anything sitting around that I could easily place and not have a wife aggro factor. If I had extra speakers handing around the Chromecast Audio really is a no brainer. I use Google Play Music so not too concerned about having the highest FLAC level available at this point in time, but that may change.
nice setup man. yeah if i was starting from scratch, no speakers, i'd probably go sonos route as well. you got a great surround setup sounds like, those tower speakers are nice, i'm hoping to go with tower speakers as well in my media room. thansk for the comment!
This was exactly what I needed to see
Nicely done. Heck of an idea.
Nice House! It looks very new! Congrats!
good video and a nice house, looks warm, its freezing here
I like the feng shui of your house :) seem like a chill dude so you've earnt my subscription and the notification bell :D keep the cool content coming x
Nice set up, but I think at this point it might be best to wait until Bluetooth 5.0 comes out which will have enough range to cover your entire house and yard.
Thank you so much for doing this video you saved me from buying a system that I didn't want allowing me to use speakers that I already have. Thanks so much!!! PS Nice Home!
It you could buy echo dots, similar price plus you get Alexa and multi room support.
the "echo" is actually physics happening. sound travels at 340m/s so it takes a little while for the sound to come from the basement to your room.