So have you ever wanted to stream music to just any speaker?
Or maybe you wanna do Whole Home Audio for a party or something like that.
Well Chromecast Audio might be what you're looking for so we're going to check this thing
out today so stay tuned.
So you're probably familiar with Google Chromecast.
It's basically just a little device that looks like a hockey puck that you connect to your
TV and it allows you to stream videos for your phone, tablet, or laptop directly to
a TV.
Well this is the Chromecast Audio and it's very similar to the Chromecast but it's just
specifically for audio.
So this thing costs $35 and it's going to allow you to stream music from your favorite
apps like Tidal, Spotify, Pandora, whatever you want to any speaker you want.
So setting this thing up is really simple just like the regular Chromecast.
You're just going to fire up your Google Home app and it's going to find it for you automatically.
Hit the setup button and then you're going to connect it to your wifi.
That's pretty much it.
So it's going to come with a USB wall adapter, a 6ft micro-usb cable, and a really really
short 3.5mm stereo cable.
I don't know why they decided to go with such a short cable but you can always use a different one.
So this is going to be powered using MIcro-usb.
It's also going to have a power button on it that can also be used to reset it.
And of course you're going to have your auxiliary port.
Now even though it looks like this is just a simple 3.5mm auxiliary port, it actually
does support digital audio.
So if you're an audio junkie like me, you can actually connect a Toslink to mini-toslink
cable to this thing and actually get digital audio out of it, which is really cool.
And the way this works is that you're pretty much going to fire up your favorite music
app on your phone or your tablet and then you're going to hit the Cast button.
When you hit the Cast button you're going to see your Chromecast Audio there.
You tap on it and it's going to start playing music through the speaker that you have the
Chromecast Audio connected to and that's pretty much it.
So this thing is going to be good for a few different situations.
The first thing is obviously if you want to play music on a speaker that doesn't have Bluetooth.
Or if it's like a Home Theater receiver or something like that, you can use RCA plugs
to plug it in and that's going to allow you to stream music to that speaker.
Another situation is if you want to play music but you don't actually want to use bluetooth.
So as you probably know, when you're using Bluetooth you can't do things like take phone
calls or play games without stopping the music.
Well, since chromecast Audio is not streaming the music directly from you phone, doing those
things doesn't actually affect the music. So you can still listen to the music and talk
on the phone, play games, or do whatever you want to do on your phone.
Or even watch another Youtube video while you're actually listening to music.
So it works really well for this.
Another thing is that is actually works directly with Google Home.
So you can just tell Google Home to play your music on the Chromecast Audio and it's going
to play the music on that instead of playing it out of the speaker on the Google Home.
So this kind of makes up for the Google Home not having an aux port on it.
But one of the coolest things about this is that it actually supports Whole Home Audio
and it's really simple the way you set this up.
All you're going to do is create a group and you can put whatever Chromecast Audio you
want in that group, name it whatever you want and that's it.
Then when you go to cast to it you can just choose the group instead of choosing an individual
device if you want, which is going to play it on all of those devices.
So it works really well and it's super simple to set up.
So if you're having like a party or something like that.
You've got a bunch of people over and they're all over your house and you want music in
different parts of the house, you can buy a few of these, connect them to all of the
speakers in your house and then you can tell Google Home to play the music or you can go
on your phone and hit play music and cast it.
And it's going to play the music simultaneously through all of the speakers in your house
and the crazy part is that it actually keeps the music in sync. So I do want to give you
a demo of this so I'm going to go ahead and show you how I have that working with my Google Home.
Chris: Hey Google.
Turn on Sound Bar.
Google Home: Sure.
Turning the sound bar on.
Chris: Hey Google.
Turn on Basement Bluetooth.
Google Home: Sure.
Turning the basement bluetooth on.
Chris: Hey Google.
Play 24k on Whole House.
Google Home: Alright. 24k Magic from Youtube.
Playing on Whole House.
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Overall I think this thing works really really well,
especially using it for digital audio and especially Whole Home Audio.
You're only paying $35 per speaker instead of going like going out and buying a bunch
of Sonos bars, which can be really expensive.
This is a much cheaper alternative and you're still getting high-quality in-sync sound out
of it so I definitely think it's a good buy.
Alright guys, that's going to be it for this video.
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Go ahead and post in the comments and I'll respond to your questions.
And I'll see you guys in the next video.