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CNET News - Chromecast Audio connects any speaker to your smart device

2015-09-29
so with chromecast Audio we can take your existing speakers and make them smart so let's say I'm at home and I want to listen to my home speaker so let's go ahead and bring up my Nexus device the first thing you're gonna notice is that chromecast Audio works with all the top audio apps that already work with chromecast today Kooning pandora iheartradio tune in and more for now let's open up Google Play Music which is the app I use for my daily listening so you'll see I'm already logged in now chromecast Audio is automatically detected by play music so we just simply press the cast button you see a new device type four speakers you can see this is very familiar right we modeled it exactly after chromecast regardless of what here casting to a television or to a speaker we believe the experience should be simple and consistent just go ahead and select the device you're a nice little audio confirmation that you're now connected and that's it we don't have a complicated pairing process and now I can just listen to my tunes we're streaming the highest quality audio through Wi-Fi to my old home speaker and because I'm streaming from the cloud we can get all rid of all the hassles of Bluetooth the music won't drain the battery on my phone I can play on any speaker in any room in the house without losing audio and I won't hear those annoying ringtones every time someone gives me a call
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