Purchased a new house and want to get the music and media set up right. I've got: 'Smart' TV (Plasma) Yamaha RX-V673 (handles two zones) A HTPC - E6500, with a few HDDs In my old place I have the Yamaha in the lounge hooked up to the TV with 5.1 set up. I use the HTPC to watch movies. I use the Netflix app on the TV (though getting some sound glitches that don't occur when using Netflix via PC). The second zone is speakers in the kitchen. I don't have a good solution for playing locally stored music. What I would like: Low power consumption solution Able to easily select music via multiple devices (eg browse and choose music on my android phone) Able to handle pandora, spotify or similar. Able to handle the different zones - I don't usually need different things going at the same time, but want to reliably select the correct zone, sometimes airplay to the receiver is a bit random. I have a NEEO remote coming from Kickstarter which may be quite useful. Particularly as the Yamaha app is a bit crap, I'm hoping I can use the IR blaster and use other apps. Possible solutions? RPi or BeagleBone Black running a dlna server? With decent size HDD attached.
Out of the box solution that works straight away but costs money: Sonos Connect. Solutions that are significantly cheaper/free, but probably take a lot of messing around to get right: Others will chime in. Z...
Thanks. I'm not looking to spend that much. At present I'm looking at raspberry pi 2 or an odroid. The new Odroid XU4 looks great, powerful, has gigabit Ethernet, and USB3.
Not exactly locally stored but for music I've found that spotify connect with my Yammy A3040 has been good. Can queue from phone for either zone and the amp itself does the streaming from the net and had no issues with speed\caching over ADSL (not 2).
