On November 8, 2016 at 19:41, goldenzrule said...
It has airplay. It can play everything Sonos can and then some
I'm guessing you mean it can play everything Sonos can 'because' you can do it thru Airplay.
Because MusicCast only has about 6 services last I checked. Sonos has like 45 services.
Let me also say THAT is an unacceptable answer. If I wanted everything thru Airplay, then why do I need any of these wireless music boxes for?
The reason being, trying to stream everything off your tablet or phone SUCKS!!! That's why they make these boxes with the services built-in.
Problems with services from tablet/phone:
1) Hickups that happen every so often, will interrupt the music from time to time.
2) Bit rate quality is not the same for some services.
3) More battery drain from streaming on the portable device, means it has to stay plugged in somewhere.
4) Ties up the device to doing only that 1 thing.
There's more I'm not thinking of right now. But having to Airplay, Bluetooth, or Cast to a device to get your service is BS! I have higher standards and I hope at least some of my customers do to.
I hope Yamaha adds more services as well but historically, Yamaha doesn't usually do that. So what we have now is likely all we will ever get from MusicCast.