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hey everyone this is Jimmy from Jim's review room welcome to another unique gadget review now I'm a big fan of Kickstarter and the company Rocky is one of those success stories they surpassed funding by over 400% just this past December and what's unique about this the rocky play turns virtually any speaker into a wireless one and only at $49 it's not a bad deal at all and if you go to my rocky comm and enter promo code ready to Rocky you'll get another 10% off until Mother's Day of 2014 so without further ado we'll get started on the review now the rocky play is very small easily fitting into your pocket or bag and it comes in 7 different colors making this one trendy looking device then the box you get a micro USB charging cable with a wall adapter three-and-a-half three-and-a-half millimeter cord and a 3 and 1/2 millimeter that splits into red and white audio channels the rocky play works as being a mini Wi-Fi receiver you can say you stream your music from your phone or tablet through your home Wi-Fi connection you can play music stored locally on your phone or tablet or you can choose to stream from online audio sources so range is dependent on how good your home wireless router is and typically home networks are much wider and range than their Bluetooth companions now if you're using the rocky outside of the house let's say in the park or on the go the rocky play has a built in battery that's good for 8 hours of news and actually becomes its own hotspot where you can stream your music direct to the rocky play now the record play connects to any audio device that has an auxiliary port meaning any one of your old speakers with a three-and-a-half millimeter input can play music wirelessly you can have several of these rocky plays in each room throughout the house and it will play your music throughout simultaneously it's great for entertaining in keeping that ambiance flowing and even in the event that you have a banging surround sound system now my personal AV receiver does have a mic input but it's a 6.5 millimeter size now with the supplied red and white audio cables you can still receive music wirelessly I connected to the back and adjust the input and now my receiver is a wireless one alleviating the cost of buying a proprietary device for that specific AV facture now the raki does work on both Apple and Android power devices with Android receiving a nice app to work with while Apple devices simply uses airplay for the time being an iOS app is scheduled for release later this April and both devices can play locally stored music on your phone or tablet in a wide variety of music formats and for the audio files out there this includes the newer file formats that's gaining traction its lossless audio FLAC files now setting up an Android powered device was very easy at first with a very clean and easy interface it was as simple as adding your router's name and password and naming your rocky play however I spent a good two hours trying to have music play and neither hotspot nor over Wi-Fi settings truly worked as seen on your screen now although the rocky denotes it's connected audio was just not passing through and I've looked on the my rocky forums and notice that there were several similar issues as well it's very unfortunate at the time but the forum's do indicate my rocky is aware of the issue and is fighting a solution fast now through the Android version amp the streaming services are currently limited to SoundCloud and last dot FM now rocky has stated they are working on adding more services soon and Spotify appears to be next however with Apple AirPlay works well on every app and I tested once the rocky Play is connected to your home network it's as easy as selecting your source where there be Pandora or even HBO go to SoundCloud and YouTube you click the airplay button and select your rocky and sound start playing instantly and with my testing audio played through several random speakers I had laying around the house and they all sounded perfectly fine and as my internet range is very good and never lost music while moving the rocky play from room to room and a sound quality is of course dependent on your speakers but the audio that came through my testing sounded like a physical and direct source that streamed over Wi-Fi so overall the nooses are very practical especially in my instance of now having a wireless receiver for the entertainment area now sound quality being transferred through is good in the unrestricted list of compatible file formats is a plus and over time rocky will be adding more streaming services to its app and lastly just having your old boombox able to work or having multiple speakers throughout the house playing at the same time it doesn't get more affordable than going with rocki play now in my personal opinion the rocky play has great potential but needs to fix these confirm the setup issues first so let me know in the comments below on what you think about this 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