fgysin
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I am looking for an easy way to stream music from an Android phone or tablet to my ONKYO digital receiver/amplifier.
My current setup:
--> What other options exist?
I am looking for ease-of-use over basically anything else... I'd like to be able to browse and play music quickly and efficiently.
Is Chromecast an option? If I understood this correctly that would mostly rely on an Android "cast app" which can do SMB well - and after some googling I wasn't really able to assert if that is the case or not...
My current setup:
- WLAN / LAN network in our house
- Drobo NAS, connected to the network (SMB)
- An ONKYO digital receiver/amplifier: this connects to the beamer, the speakers, etc. and takes inputs as HDMI
- Beamer / speaker setup connected to the ONKYO receiver
- Vero4K+ to browse and play movies from the NAS
- Option: Use Vero4K to browse and play the music - this has the big disadvantage, that I have to turn on the beamer in order to deal with the KODI UI, and I'd rather not have the beamer noise...
- Option: Use a SMB-enabled Android music player to access the music on the NAS, and stream via Bluetooth directly to the ONKYO. Disadvantage here is that the Bluetooth streaming seems to be rather limited in range and also sometimes has lags/connection issues. Also I haven't really found any SMB-enabled music player apps for Android which can truly cope with the size of my music collections...
--> What other options exist?
I am looking for ease-of-use over basically anything else... I'd like to be able to browse and play music quickly and efficiently.
Is Chromecast an option? If I understood this correctly that would mostly rely on an Android "cast app" which can do SMB well - and after some googling I wasn't really able to assert if that is the case or not...