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