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Have you seen this https://music-assistant.io/faq/stream-to/#music-assistant |
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I thought that this question better fitted here as a feature request since found no MA music providers for pre-built commercial products. But yes, do not either know of any pre-built commercial products with ANALOGUE INPUT with ADC that stream non-propriatory protocols? Again, the ”WiiM Pro Plus” is a music streamer product that has analog input but Music Assistant does not have a Music Provider for it. The closest product that can do this is otherwise the "Amazon Echo Dot" series which have AUX input but its require cloud, etc. https://decortweaks.com/does-amazon-echo-have-an-aux-input/ The only other product that I am aware of with analog AUX input for streaming are the Google Home Max speaker: https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7659949?hl=en That is what I would like to achieve but since this is for the wife it is not really acceptable with a janky thinker solution that needs fiddling :/ |
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Would still love to see a ready-made network streaming appliance with AUX-input that anyone can buy and use this purpose out-of-the-box. I understand that Nabu Casa is working on some voice-assistant product hardware based on ESP32-S3 in combination with an XMOS chip (similar to Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS) Development Kit), and as is planned to be both open-source and some what modular in order to keep it developer friendly for modifications and add-ons, so perhaps if their hardware is modular enough it might be possible for someone to maybe addon external PCB breakout board for it with ADC chip and AUX-in for it? ...I can at least dream about that:
PS: While I still have not found a ready-made appliance solution for this, but I have updated two guides on how to achieve this via DIY solutions: |
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Would be great if could buy some simple music streamer appliance with analog AUX input to use as audio source provider, are such available?
What I want to achieve is a solution that is easy to install/maintain and use that allow my wife to stream music from a vinyl record player (LP turntable) to any speaker or group of speakers in our home. The vinyl record player (turntable) setup she has a pre-amp with phono (RCA) output ports for analog audio in stereo.
I would therefore prefer if we could buy some kind of networked (Wi-Fi) enabled appliance like a music streamer with stereo AUX input port that it will use for on-the-fly perform analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) + encoding for streaming to a Music Provider inside Music Assistant.
I have yet found a commercial product that does this outside the walled garden of closed ecosystems. That is, there are commercial products that support this but they will only stream to their own branded speakers within their own closed ecosystems (e.g. Sonos, and Yamaha).
Are there any solutions that can do this but stream to a Music Provider inside Music Assistant so it can forward to any Player Provider types?
UPDATE: To clearify, I would prefer to not build/maintain a DIY project, I would instead like to buy a complete appliance product that just works.
I think that it needs to have a high-quality ADC (analog-to-digital converter) for Hi-Fi music streams, though I'm not an audiophile myself.
Normally you have to use an expensive propriatory Hi-Fi music streamer system to achive this, howverr there are also mid-range products like the ”WiiM Pro Plus” from Linkplay that have both analog and digital audio input ports, but practially all of them will only stream within their own ecosystem so you need to buy both music streamers and stream receivers from the same brand for all your speakers to make them compatible.
https://www.wiimhome.com/wiimpro/overview
Alternativly I guess getting input via Bluetooth audio streaming could work in pinch but I am not aware of any such devices that are not troublesome and Bluetooth is not a very great way for permanent streaming which can be WAF approved (as it is my wifi that wants to stream her LP-records).
PS: I have previously used the ”Vinyl Cast” app on an Android phone/tablet (with analog input and ADC via a USB Audio Device) for casting to Chromecast Audio using Google Cast which was user-friendly but it was very buggy as ”Vinyl Cast” app the kept crashing + aesthetically the solution as a whole was not WAF approved + it kind of ruined the nostalgic retro vibe having to use the interface of Android phone/tablet each time, (nice with it though was that at least the initial release of the Vinyl Cast app included using Audio ACR to detect the song being played, but unfortunately this feature relied on a now discontinued third-party library/service so the feature was removed.)
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