谷歌 Chromecast 音频互联网和媒体串流器

I would give this unit 5 stars if the directions for setup (especially online) were up to date and agreed with the reality of the device itself. Also, I was about to give it a poor rating because I could not get it to cast TuneIn Radio, my favorite source of streaming stations. But, then, in some arcane location, I saw a note about updating the firmware, and that worked...well, almost perfectly. Again, the directions for updating were not quite up to date with reality, but I figured that one out. And, as for TuneIn Radio, I find that, with all my iOS devices, I have to try to cast a station and receive an error message that the stream is not compatible, and then I have to dismiss the TuneIn app (flick it up off the screen), and restart it, and then it works. This is consistent behavior. I don's know why it happens. Once I get things rolling, there is no interruption (for hours of play) such as I experience with AirPlay (using the AirEnabler dongle), so this is now my preferred device, despite some minor warts. I hope that Google will work out the kinks in future updates.

The new Chromecast online is rumored to work without wifi to stream peer-to-peer from your Android phone to your TV. This is not the case. I purchased the new Chromecast already owning an old Chromecast because I travel a lot and am not able to connect to Hotel wifi through the Chromecast so I was hoping to stream directly. Also, I like streaming media files like .mkv and .mp4 from my phone to the device. A third party file explorer app must be used to do this as the Chromecast app does not have native support. The app does allow you to stream YouTube and mirror your Android phone screen which is great!

As a whole, it is a very easy-to-use and great-quality product in a very cheap price, but it still has delays, and still limits you to google products (or 3rd party plugins for chrome) only. There are things that bugs me like when you cast a youtube video, it limits the screen size such that you cannot go full-screen mode. Also the user cannot set a manual audio-casting delay in order to fix the video-audio delay. But overall it is a good product for a cheap price.

I was hoping that streaming audio from my NAS would be an easy task, It works great with Deezer, I can shutdown the app while listening to a radio station, and chromecast will keep playing, that's nice. it is a great product for easy tasks, but I really want to see some improvement on connectivity, streaming from my Mac is complicated too, but my number one requirement is to play music form my NAS drive.