Sonos-like functionality?
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 4:13 pm
I was pre-Christmas shopping with my partner in John Lewis, when we happened to pass a Sonos stand. She asked whether we have the ability to wifi-sound our house like the Sonos does, and I realised ... I have no idea which of the many media servers available in Amahi provide this functionality!
My HDA is currently running Plex Media Server, AmahiTunes, amahi-dlna (currently disabled, as Plex seems to be a superset of this) and AmpJuke. I haven't noticed any jukebox-style facilities in any of these servers to provide synchronised multi-room audio capabilities.
We have various Android devices (2x Nexus 7, an Archos5, a couple of phones), an iPhone, some MacBook Pros and Windows7 laptops, an XBMC media nettop and a Pure Sensia wifi radio. These would need some client support, I presume, to ensure sychronised playback. It's disconcerting when listening to media than to have audible offset between different outputs, but there's no way that I'm going to spend £300 per room just for audio sync, especially when we own a bunch of media-enabled devices!
Do any of my already-installed media servers have the ability to emulate the functionalities of a Sonos server, or do I need yet another media server? If I need another one, I think I will need to rationalise the number of media servers I'm running, so what others can I then dispense with?
My HDA is currently running Plex Media Server, AmahiTunes, amahi-dlna (currently disabled, as Plex seems to be a superset of this) and AmpJuke. I haven't noticed any jukebox-style facilities in any of these servers to provide synchronised multi-room audio capabilities.
We have various Android devices (2x Nexus 7, an Archos5, a couple of phones), an iPhone, some MacBook Pros and Windows7 laptops, an XBMC media nettop and a Pure Sensia wifi radio. These would need some client support, I presume, to ensure sychronised playback. It's disconcerting when listening to media than to have audible offset between different outputs, but there's no way that I'm going to spend £300 per room just for audio sync, especially when we own a bunch of media-enabled devices!
Do any of my already-installed media servers have the ability to emulate the functionalities of a Sonos server, or do I need yet another media server? If I need another one, I think I will need to rationalise the number of media servers I'm running, so what others can I then dispense with?