Hi folks,
I can't seem to get DLNA working on the Xperia Z2. Maybe I'm just stupid, but the only setting I've found for these things is "Throw" which searches for devices and only finds my TV.
I also have Sony network speakers NS510 and an OpenELEC XBMC media centre, which worked flawlessly with iPhone and AirPlay.
With the Xperia Z2 they don't show up when Throw looks for devices. I can get around the XBMC issue by using apps like XBMC constellation, Yatze etc, which allow me to "send to XBMC", but it's not integrated with music, photos and videos like the iPhone was.
The worst past however is that I cannot connect my Sony phone to my Sony speaker, because Sony app "Network Audio Remote" doesn't work on android kitkat and they haven't bothered to fix it for months.
Anyone know of a way to coax the phone to play nice with DLNA devices in the home network?
If you go in to settings if any if the Sony Media apps like Album, Walkman or Movies, it has a Media Sharing setting. Turn that on and it will start
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Is there an application that can stream the sound sent to speaker or headphones to UPNP or DLNA compatible devices?
The idea is to stream what is playing in the android device to a device like Sonos
Thanks
A device like Sonos or a real Sonos? If its a Sonos, just download their app. Otherwise, just search the market, I believe there are some apps which do this. Some HTC and Samsung models even have their own app to do this
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It's a sonos system but the solution could apply to any DLNA/UPnP renderer.
Sonos supports some streaming providers like spotify and supports playing music from a media or NAS server.
The issue arrives when using some streaming providers that are not supported by sonos (like a provider in Denmark called TDC Play) or that cannot send the sound via DLNA/UPnp (play to) . So the solution is then for sonos to support this provider or in case this is not possible to make the android system streaming what is being played through the speaker or headphones.
I'm searching the net for some time and so far could not find any app capable of doing this. There are apps that can stream music, video and pics stored in the android device but not streaming what is being played through the speaker or headphones.
Cheers
mtsales said:
It's a sonos system but the solution could apply to any DLNA/UPnP renderer.
Sonos supports some streaming providers like spotify and supports playing music from a media or NAS server.
The issue arrives when using some streaming providers that are not supported by sonos (like a provider in Denmark called TDC Play) or that cannot send the sound via DLNA/UPnp (play to) . So the solution is then for sonos to support this provider or in case this is not possible to make the android system streaming what is being played through the speaker or headphones.
I'm searching the net for some time and so far could not find any app capable of doing this. There are apps that can stream music, video and pics stored in the android device but not streaming what is being played through the speaker or headphones.
Cheers
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Sonos controller has this functionality now to play songs from your android device directly. Look for "This mobile device". Just get a huge sdcard and put your fav songs there. It would work for the most part.
Android controller apps that support UPnP server streaming to Sonos renderers
I have been able to use the android apps BubbleUPnP and Belkin MediaPlay (was Twonky Beam) to connect to my TomatoUSB router running its DLNA server and send the mp3 tracks on the flash drive on the router to my Sonos speakers as the DLNA renderer.
Most other android UPnP apps I tested either did not find the Sonos as a renderer or were not capable of playing music to a remote renderer at all.
I don't know if there is any open source code to help one to do this, though one of the apps (SlickUPnP) I tested was open source, but did not support remote renderers at all.
Could you find a solution?
Hi mtsales,
Could you find any app which can send the system audio to sonos speakers over upnp/dlna?
Is there any kind of app that acts like Apple's AirPlay? I would love to see something similar on Android. I've read about a home entertainment system from google that is in the works.
For the meantime... Has anyone found an app that does something similar? Outputting the device's screen to a DLNA TV or receiver would be awesome. But at least something to stream audio? I have a Sony BR player with DLNA and I can sync with DLNA to play any stored music on my phone, but I would love to play my Google Music stuff on the TV and sound system wirelessly. I have tried browsing to the site on the tv but it crashes everytime I try.
Any ideas?
Take a look at Skifta and/or 2Player. Both allow you to set DLNA source and target when playing music. I use Skifta on my Evo 3D to set my Synology NAS as the DLNA source and pick music for playback on my XBMC HTPC (my DLNA target). Works well.
thornd7 said:
Take a look at Skifta and/or 2Player. Both allow you to set DLNA source and target when playing music. I use Skifta on my Evo 3D to set my Synology NAS as the DLNA source and pick music for playback on my XBMC HTPC (my DLNA target). Works well.
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I tried looking at 2Player, but from what I can tell it only plays the music stored on the device. If I wanted to use Google Music, it wouldn't work, right? Or am I missing something?
2Player can source music from any DLNA music source on your network. You had wifi turned on and checked the drop down box at the top of the 2player screen for alternate sources, right?
Fairly certain Google Music doesn't have an option to push content. If it does, I've never seen it. Hopefully, they'll add that at some point. I do like their interface.
I don't what kind of phone your on. I'm using HTC Evo 3D (Sprint.. but hacked with ICS and Sense 3.6). HTC's "Connected Media" app can also DLNA pull/push Music, Photos, and Video to network devices.
Maybe try that..
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2Player can source music from any DLNA music source on your network. You had wifi turned on and checked the drop down box at the top of the 2player screen for alternate sources, right?
Fairly certain Google Music doesn't have an option to push content. If it does, I've never seen it. Hopefully, they'll add that at some point. I do like their interface.
I don't what kind of phone your on. I'm using HTC Evo 3D (Sprint.. but hacked with ICS and Sense 3.6). HTC's "Connected Media" app can also DLNA pull/push Music, Photos, and Video to network devices.
Maybe try that..
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Yeah sorry, I've got the Epic 4g Touch (SGSII) on Sprint.. The phone has AllShare which would do a great job if I had music stored on the device. My problem is I use Google Music for everything.
FWIW, another app with AirPlay like functionality is doubleTwist. Don't think its going to help with the Google Music thing though.
No, this is limited by the chipsets. Currently the only chipset that allows for this is the TI OMAP 4460 in the Galaxy Nexus. Although the chipset has the capability it has not been developed to be usable yet.
I had been looking for an app like this for the longest time. I'm not sure who was able to crack the Airplay sender protocol, but there are now several options for streaming music FROM Android to any AirPlay receiver. I tried a couple and found AOA to be the most compatible with my setup
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nav.aoaservice
The other two install a service (all the ones I tried require root access), but I found them to not work or not be compatible with my current ROM. AOA was and it works great.
I'm looking for a way to stream audio from my S3 to a DLNA capable device. I know, a "popular" topic, I know I can use bubble, skifta, etc.. to play file locally on my phone on dlna devices, that works fine, but what I'd like is a way to get Pandora, Spotify, or really any other app to stream to the dlna device( XBMC fyi ). Ultimatly I don't understand why we don't have a way to take whatever is playing on the phone, regardless of the app, and redirect the audio to another device( Video would be great too, but not getting my hopes up ). Personally I feel this is the one thing Apple users have over us, and the one thing I miss from switching to android a couple years ago.
So does anyone know if there is a mixer, app, or ROM that will take whatever is on the audio source and redirect it to dlna, kind of like bluetooth will play anything also, however I'm not a fan of the bluetooth audio quality at all. Currently I'm running CM10 and AOKP most of the time, if ROM choice matters.
Hey all
I'm very much interested in being able to send my music/audio from my phone to a DLNA renderer on my home network. There are plenty of individual apps out there to do this, such as BubbleUPnP, Twonky, etc, or even indeed the music app built in to my HTC One X. However what I'm wondering is if there's a way to have all music/audio re-directed over WiFi to a DLNA renderer?
What I'm looking for would be something similar to when you plug in headphones or connect a Bluetooth audio device: any application that plays media has the audio directed to the headphones or bluetooth connection, instead of the internal phone speaker - that's exactly what I want, but with the audio being directed over WiFi to a DLNA renderer. I'd configure the app/service/whatever to send all audio over DLNA, and then it doesn't matter whether I'm using Dogcatcher, Spotify, the built-in Music app or Google Music - all audio automatically gets directed to the DLNA renderer.
Having to use yet another app on top of the various media applications I already use is a real pain; plus I highly doubt any of the existing applications will support Spotify streams (Twonky and BubbleUPnP don't), and I had little success when experimenting with Twonky yesterday. As mentioned my built-in music app already does this so I'm already part of the way there, but I'd like it to be system-wide rather than app specific.
The DLNA renderer I'll be using will either be a standard PC running XBMC, or a headless Raspberry Pi embedded Linux computer; either way they'll both be fully UPnP/DLNA compliant.
To be honest, I don't even know if this is possible; I have a feeling that it'll have to be on a per-application basis. But hey, no one ever learned anything by not asking questions
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Hey all
I'm very much interested in being able to send my music/audio from my phone to a DLNA renderer on my home network. There are plenty of individual apps out there to do this, such as BubbleUPnP, Twonky, etc, or even indeed the music app built in to my HTC One X. However what I'm wondering is if there's a way to have all music/audio re-directed over WiFi to a DLNA renderer?
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Capturing audio emitted by any app is not possible on Android. There's no API to do it. Probably because Google did not want apps to be able to do it.
Since capturing audio is perfectly possible on a PC, that's in line with the dumbing down of general computing.
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Capturing audio emitted by any app is not possible on Android. There's no API to do it. Probably because Google did not want apps to be able to do it.
Since capturing audio is perfectly possible on a PC, that's in line with the dumbing down of general computing.
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Cheers for the reply; at least I know there's no point in further googling!
Looks like it'll have to be on a per-app basis then.
It is possible, with root access
BLCollier said:
Hey all
I'm very much interested in being able to send my music/audio from my phone to a DLNA renderer on my home network. There are plenty of individual apps out there to do this, such as BubbleUPnP, Twonky, etc, or even indeed the music app built in to my HTC One X. However what I'm wondering is if there's a way to have all music/audio re-directed over WiFi to a DLNA renderer?
What I'm looking for would be something similar to when you plug in headphones or connect a Bluetooth audio device: any application that plays media has the audio directed to the headphones or bluetooth connection, instead of the internal phone speaker - that's exactly what I want, but with the audio being directed over WiFi to a DLNA renderer. I'd configure the app/service/whatever to send all audio over DLNA, and then it doesn't matter whether I'm using Dogcatcher, Spotify, the built-in Music app or Google Music - all audio automatically gets directed to the DLNA renderer.
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With root access you can get to the system audio, but as far as I know only apps that output this via airplay currently exist...
Hi all,
I have a network drive with my media library attached to the router (belkin 600 play). Also I have Xperia z tablet and dlna enabled Samsung TV. Router is not a dlna media server.
I need a player for android that can
1)see not just servers but all shares of the local network. (bs player can do this the way I would like to)
2) play all formats is "a must"
3) cast playback to TV (as a dlna server)
So as for now there are tons of players with different combinations of these features, but none combine them all. I wonder if bsplayer pro can play to TV, but not ready to pay 7$ to get Answer))))
Thanks