Re:Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player
by reaperducer on Monday December 30, 2019 @07:47PM
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A bit of a rant, but I long for a digital version of an FM transmitter.
For a good 90% of people, FM is plenty good enough, and there are a lot of choices when it comes to whole-home FM transmitters. If you're an audiophile, or someone for whom FM isn't good enough, then I don't think there is a real solution out there yet.
FWIW, I picked up a used AM transmitter at Goodwill for $10, and plugged it into a spare iPod. My wife uses it as her own private radio station, and since most of the music on it is ripped from 1940's-70's crooner records that were mastered for AM, they sound great on the vintage radios she has scattered around the house. Whenever she wants to listen to her music all she has to do is turn in the nearest radio. It's like the future!
For her birthday one year I paid a big-name radio DJ to record a bunch of liners and fake station ID's for it. He went along with it because they won't be heard more than a hundred feet from our property. Very fun.
For a good 90% of people, FM is plenty good enough, and there are a lot of choices when it comes to whole-home FM transmitters. If you're an audiophile, or someone for whom FM isn't good enough, then I don't think there is a real solution out there yet.
FWIW, I picked up a used AM transmitter at Goodwill for $10, and plugged it into a spare iPod. My wife uses it as her own private radio station, and since most of the music on it is ripped from 1940's-70's crooner records that were mastered for AM, they sound great on the vintage radios she has scattered around the house. Whenever she wants to listen to her music all she has to do is turn in the nearest radio. It's like the future!
For her birthday one year I paid a big-name radio DJ to record a bunch of liners and fake station ID's for it. He went along with it because they won't be heard more than a hundred feet from our property. Very fun.