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elibroftw / music-caster

Music Caster is a modern music player with the ability to cast audio files, system audio, and URLs to Google Chromecasts, Google Home/Nest Minis, etc.
https://elijahlopez.ca/music-caster/
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Multiple playback devices / Playback syncing of local and remote #28

Closed chapmanjacobd closed 2 years ago

chapmanjacobd commented 2 years ago

I think you could have music syncing of local speakers and chromecast if you add a delay slider in the UI to delay the computer playback from 0ms to 20000ms (or maybe just a textbox input) then the user can choose how much delay they want to add to local speaker playback

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

I'll try to implement this tomorrow but if it's too difficult 🤷‍♂️

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

Check out the latest version. It might be kind of broke because I actually don't know how many bytes = a second for the WAV encoding I am using so I just guess 1024 * 1000 😂

chapmanjacobd commented 2 years ago

hmmmm I think it is working but how do I play multiple outputs at the same time?

Can we make an option in settings called Play local and chromecast

Thanks!

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

hmmmm I think it is working but how do I play multiple outputs at the same time?

Can we make an option in settings called Enable multiple devices to change the Taskbar Tray Context Menu --> Select Device to be multi-select?

Thanks!

Create a group in the home app, hit refresh devices and the group name should show up. Then cast to that group. I don't want to implement what you want because it would require significant testing. And I'm trying to work on some other project right now.

chapmanjacobd commented 2 years ago

I already have chromecast groups but Google won't let me add my PC's speakers to that group... sorry I didn't make that more clear. maybe I'll try opening up two instances of Music Caster and playing both that way

ohhhhh maybe I can use Play -> System Audio then delay that. I'm stupid lol

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

Yeah it's not even possible to stream live system audio to local speakers.

chapmanjacobd commented 2 years ago

that's why I was thinking of delaying the local speakers to match the chromecast but it only makes sense if local and chromecast is playing at the same time

we can't make the chromecast faster so we make the local speakers slower (add a delay to local playback)

elibroftw commented 2 years ago

Way too out of scope and complicated in my opinion. Better for your mixing software to support Chromecasts directly. Then they can create an endpoint for the Chromecast to listen to, keep track of the delay, play on local speakers with that delay, and then let you know the delay.

chapmanjacobd commented 2 years ago

okay I respect that. thanks for the time you spent implementing this feature. It is less annoying for the audio to be out of sync in the other room by 30s than for it to be slightly out of sync :)

edit (just to be extra clear and I don't want to bother you since you are focusing on a different project): I made this issue only thinking about file playback within Music Caster. I didn't know System Audio was a thing.