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Music player and sound quality. OH GAWD.

Being used to cellphone audio quality (nokia 5800, SE W850) i know they are usually decent, but not more than that. So it didn't occure to me that i should try the player on the SGS i9000.
Today i finally did, to test the supplied earphones.
Hearing that the phone with the mediocre supplied earphones sounds good, i switched to my AKG K317.
HOLY *stuff that shouldn't be written here* THE SOUND QUALITY IS MINDBLOWING.
I don't know what the hell Samsung did here, but it appears that someone did something VERY right here.
Now i have no use for my Creative Zen, which is kind of sad.
If any of you still didn't try it- well, it's about time to.

Agreed, it's amazing.

I'm not sure this suprises me tbh, Samsung know what they are doing in this field, more than a lot of other companies.

Not a big fan of the headset tho. I find it hurts after a while and in the stock music player there is no way to skip the current track. No skip, no fast forward, reverse etc. MixZing can skip tracks, but it's a bit iffy and that's all it can do.
I have yet to find a music player that is as good as the one on my old iPhone. On that phone I could skip, reverse, fast forward, pause, play etc with the headset. And I often used voice control to change playlists and shuffle the songs when I'm out bicycling. Can't do this on this phone right now and that is a problem.
Sound quality on this one isn't bad though.
Got any advice for me?

WiseDuck said:
I have yet to find a music player that is as good as the one on my old iPhone. On that phone I could skip, reverse, fast forward, pause, play etc with the headset. And I often used voice control to change playlists and shuffle the songs when I'm out bicycling. Can't do this on this phone right now and that is a problem.
Sound quality on this one isn't bad though.
Got any advice for me?
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Apparently (there's another thread that talks about that) the Nokia remotes work since it's the same jack layout. I'll have to try that out since controlling the player from the remote is essential.

Totally agree with the OP. Music is awesome on this phone. Beats the HTC HD2 and the iPod. Together with the Sure SE500 and Dolby surround enabled on the Galaxy it is simply amazing.

i agree, but the stock ear phones are funny :/
there's too much treble in it, and bass is low on high.
apart from that its an awesome phone.

When GSMarena reviewed the Galaxy S, they described it as "perfect audio quality":
wwwgsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s-review-478p6.php

Finally a phone that equals or surpasses the iPhones in sound quality.

Better than iphone's music player? LOL. I'll have whatever pot you guys are smoking.
The sound in SGS is shallow, skips beats occasionally, and pauses occasionally, may be due to lags. It is also very lacking in functions and features.
iPhone's music player is miles ahead, if you really have been using both.
1. iPhone music player lets me combine music video and audio into a single playlist. SGS can't.
2. iPhone music player lets me continue to play the sound on video with the option of screen completely shut off, therefore good for listening to music videos without having to look at the picture. SGS can't.
3. iPhone music player lets me pause/play/skip/repeat songs entirely with the volume button, with the music running in both foreground and background and both screen on or off. SGS has an application in the market place to contra music totally with the volume button but the screen must be on, and music player must be the foreground task, so you can control it which surfing the net, for example.
4. iPhone music player has the option of displaying lyric while the music play. I'm not aware of such possibility. I'm talking about stock music player here.
5. iPhone standard headset also let me completely control the music playing (play/pause/skip/previous) with the control on the wire itself. What can the button in SGS's wired headset control? Limited, isn't it?
6. iPhone slider let's you slide either very fast or extremely slow depending on how far away you move your finger from the slider.
7. iPhone music player never ever pause, skip music. SGS does, which is one of the first things I noted and complained about.
8. iPhone music player does not require long media scan each time we reboot the phone. I don't even dare to put in all my 22 GB of musics on my SGS.
There are things i like more in SGS than iPhone, but music player and sound quality aren't among them.

eaglesteve said:
Better than iphone's music player? LOL. I'll have whatever pot you guys are smoking.
The sound in SGS is shallow, skips beats occasionally, and pauses occasionally, may be due to lags. It is also very lacking in functions and features.
iPhone's music player is miles ahead, if you really have been using both. [....]
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From my experience, it all comes down to the right combination between the music player and the characteristics of the headset. For me the combination between the SGS and the Shure in ear phones is by far the best of all combinations I tried.

what model are you using appelflap?
I am pondering to get myself a sony/sennheiser soon..

appelflap said:
From my experience, it all comes down to the right combination between the music player and the characteristics of the headset. For me the combination between the SGS and the Shure in ear phones is by far the best of all combinations I tried.
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You're right there, appleflap, more expensive headset does make hugh difference, but this works for both if one is willing to spend that much more for expensive headset. Won't help with the skips, pause, long media scanning time when you want the entire collection of music in, and the limited fuctionalities that I mentioned though.
Personally, I much prefer connecting my SGS or iPhone to good external speakers. Wow, the sound depth and richness completely change with that set up. That's what I always do before bed. I miss the ability to just rest my finger on the volume button to completely control the music in iPhone, without ever have to turn on the screen. I don't like sticking anything into my ear while trying to get to sleep, although I have that option.

Correct me if im wrong, but Apple uses a dedicated audio chip for music playing while samsung is just using the A8 CPU for it. This accounts for the crap battery life when playing audio on the Galaxy (barely 10 hours) vs 40 on the iPhone 4 and the better sound quality on the iPhone.
I basically went back to the iPhone because of this. For a phone that's touted as a multimedia powerhouse, not having a dedicated audio chip seems absurd to me. I work for 10 hours a day and I like to listen to music the whole time, with the Galaxy I'd go back home with 30% battery and only if I hadn't used the phone for anything else. With the iPhone I can play music all day and be back home with more than 75% battery.

jmjacas said:
Correct me if im wrong, but Apple uses a dedicated audio chip for music playing while samsung is just using the A8 CPU for it. This accounts for the crap battery life when playing audio on the Galaxy (barely 10 hours) vs 40 on the iPhone 4 and the better sound quality on the iPhone.
I basically went back to the iPhone because of this. For a phone that's touted as a multimedia powerhouse, not having a dedicated audio chip seems absurd to me. I work for 10 hours a day and I like to listen to music the whole time, with the Galaxy I'd go back home with 30% battery and only if I hadn't used the phone for anything else. With the iPhone I can play music all day and be back home with more than 75% battery.
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You can always buy a spare battery. Or better yet, buy 10 ( ebay sells them for 5$ the piece) and you can listen for 10 days to music.
iPhone can't do that that's why I even didn't consider the iPhone (kidding)

appelflap said:
You can always buy a spare battery. Or better yet, buy 10 ( ebay sells them for 5$ the piece) and you can listen for 10 days to music.
iPhone can't do that that's why I even didn't consider the iPhone (kidding)
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Those battery are useless. I've tried them. It's cheaper to buy the genuine one although they cost 20 times more. It turns out cheaper.

eaglesteve said:
You're right there, appleflap, more expensive headset does make hugh difference, but this works for both if one is willing to spend that much more for expensive headset. Won't help with the skips, pause, long media scanning time when you want the entire collection of music in, and the limited fuctionalities that I mentioned though.
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Yeah, I read that. I personally haven't any problems with it. I have had never any skip or pause. And as for the media scanning: I was pretty amazed about the speed actually. In contrast to my HD2 it is blazing fast. Scanning 14 Gb of audio files in just a few seconds is pretty amazing.
Maybe there are some problems with your SD card?
Personally, I much prefer connecting my SGS or iPhone to good external speakers. Wow, the sound depth and richness completely change with that set up. That's what I always do before bed. I miss the ability to just rest my finger on the volume button to completely control the music in iPhone, without ever have to turn on the screen. I don't like sticking anything into my ear while trying to get to sleep, although I have that option.
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Haven't tried that set up. I use a iPod for an external speaker set up

eaglesteve said:
Those battery are useless. I've tried them. It's cheaper to buy the genuine one although they cost 20 times more. It turns out cheaper.
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I just ordered 2 with a charger. I know they won't last as long as the original ones, but as spare batteries I expect they will do there job. (For my HD2 I also had those cheap ebay batteries and I was very satisfied with it)

appelflap said:
I just ordered 2 with a charger. I know they won't last as long as the original ones, but as spare batteries I expect they will do there job. (For my HD2 I also had those cheap ebay batteries and I was very satisfied with it)
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I ordered two of those before. I gave a 5 star rating to them when I first got them. However, very very quickly the live shorten, and within a couple of months became useless. Now they no longer charge.

eaglesteve said:
I ordered two of those before. I gave a 5 star rating to them when I first got them. However, very very quickly the live shorten, and within a couple of months became useless. Now they no longer charge.
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for $5 a piece I can live with that (in fact i didn't expect more)

[Q] Who else does music??? Any Genre

I know there are other artist here on XDA. Let's link up! Here are a few tracks from myself and a label mate. Let me know what you think and post links to your music as well...
B.Haze -Suicide - http://limelinx.com/files/07b6b55f670700bf4a1faec4bf6dd27a
ReNard & B.Haze - Blah Blah - http://limelinx.com/files/483b3848c80b6fe06a7f99850dcae0b0
ReNard - Extraodinary - http://limelinx.com/files/2c02704e515bf3ece3e99b7bfc2a86d4

Cool thread idea!
I play drums and have a studio setup in my house where I record bands and do production work. I outsource most of my drumming now, i'm not in any bands at the moment due to time constraints.
I've been playing for about 4 years
Here's my YouTube account, some drum videos as well as tracks i've done for other people - The featured video (Only the Paranoid Survive) is one i put together for a friend, we tracked everything in my studio and the drums were done in a single take.
youtube.com/user/xcrumblingmirth
Here are some things i've performed on, as well as recorded/mixed.
myspace.com/theawakeningfl (ambient/metal/progressive)
myspace.com/thenorthwestpassageband (alternative/moody)
myspace.com/bostonmolassesdisaster (crunchy jam band)
Cheers!
-Chris

Myspace (SLIGHTLY OUT DATED)
Twitter
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Datpiff
ReverbNation (MORE RECENT, STILL IN PROGRESS)
Great Thread By The Way. We Needed This.

I've been playing guitar for about 15 years now, primarily thrash and death metal. I have a bunch of crap recorded but it's all on my crappy boss digital recorder. I am just getting into computer recording, just bought me a MacBook Pro and a cheap line6 UX2 interface, trying to ease myself into it.

_MetalHead_ said:
I've been playing guitar for about 15 years now, primarily thrash and death metal. I have a bunch of crap recorded but it's all on my crappy boss digital recorder. I am just getting into computer recording, just bought me a MacBook Pro and a cheap line6 UX2 interface, trying to ease myself into it.
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nice. i rap and make rap beats, but honestly i appreciate all music. (for the most part) youll enjoy recording on a computer. ive been making music since i was 12. i built my own booth (all hardware) around age 15 i started with a windows pc and last january moved to an iMac. best move of my career (engineer and production wise.)

here is some feedback and i preface it with saying congrats either way man, just my take on the cuts
suicide - i like the beat and the flow is nice...my two cents tone down the side noise and let the beat and the lyrics take center stage. I was going to say its pretty southern and saw the ATL so made total sense (i prefer more east coast hip hop)
blah blah - kill everything but the "bell sound" and the blah blah for the beat, i think its a pretty unique
extraordinary - i like it, the vocals are being dominated by everything else
ATownI20 said:
I know there are other artist here on XDA. Let's link up! Here are a few tracks from myself and a label mate. Let me know what you think and post links to your music as well...
B.Haze -Suicide - http://limelinx.com/files/07b6b55f670700bf4a1faec4bf6dd27a
ReNard & B.Haze - Blah Blah - http://limelinx.com/files/483b3848c80b6fe06a7f99850dcae0b0
ReNard - Extraodinary - http://limelinx.com/files/2c02704e515bf3ece3e99b7bfc2a86d4
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Rydah805 said:
nice. i rap and make rap beats, but honestly i appreciate all music. (for the most part) youll enjoy recording on a computer. ive been making music since i was 12. i built my own booth (all hardware) around age 15 i started with a windows pc and last january moved to an iMac. best move of my career (engineer and production wise.)
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Yeah the mac is awesome. I used to be a blind apple hater before, and then once I got my ipad my views started to change. All it took was an hour of playtime with the macbook pro before I decided to buy it, and it was one of the best decisions I have made in a while. I will most likely never buy another windows machine again, at least not for personal use.

Google my screen name, links will show up. Mysoace, soundclick etc. I used acid pro usually to mix. Haven't done much lately, I stopped smoking weed and im not as motivated anymore. Weird huh?

xopethx said:
Cool thread idea!
I play drums and have a studio setup in my house where I record bands and do production work. I outsource most of my drumming now, i'm not in any bands at the moment due to time constraints.
I've been playing for about 4 years
Here's my YouTube account, some drum videos as well as tracks i've done for other people - The featured video (Only the Paranoid Survive) is one i put together for a friend, we tracked everything in my studio and the drums were done in a single take.
youtube.com/user/xcrumblingmirth
Here are some things i've performed on, as well as recorded/mixed.
myspace.com/theawakeningfl (ambient/metal/progressive)
myspace.com/thenorthwestpassageband (alternative/moody)
myspace.com/bostonmolassesdisaster (crunchy jam band)
Cheers!
-Chris
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Will definitely check you out... U played the set for 12 years as a kid... Learning acoustic guitar now..
Checkmate...

xopethx said:
Cool thread idea!
youtube.com/user/xcrumblingmirth
Here are some things i've performed on, as well as recorded/mixed.
myspace.com/theawakeningfl (ambient/metal/progressive)
myspace.com/thenorthwestpassageband (alternative/moody)
myspace.com/bostonmolassesdisaster (crunchy jam band)
Cheers!
-Chris
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Man I'm really feeling the music... I listen to a broad spectrum of music and this is right up my alley!!! GREAT sound!!!

Rydah805 said:
Myspace (SLIGHTLY OUT DATED)
Twitter
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Datpiff
ReverbNation (MORE RECENT, STILL IN PROGRESS)
Great Thread By The Way. We Needed This.
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Yeah man I searched around and was like hol up? Where all the artist and muscians at? Preciate it tho... The music is nice bruh...

_MetalHead_ said:
I've been playing guitar for about 15 years now, primarily thrash and death metal. I have a bunch of crap recorded but it's all on my crappy boss digital recorder. I am just getting into computer recording, just bought me a MacBook Pro and a cheap line6 UX2 interface, trying to ease myself into it.
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I'm trying to learn guitar now... MY pops played with Al Green back in the day... He's rusty as old pipes now tho lol... Any beginner material you recommend? I'd appreciate it...

xlGmanlx said:
here is some feedback and i preface it with saying congrats either way man, just my take on the cuts
suicide - i like the beat and the flow is nice...my two cents tone down the side noise and let the beat and the lyrics take center stage. I was going to say its pretty southern and saw the ATL so made total sense (i prefer more east coast hip hop)
blah blah - kill everything but the "bell sound" and the blah blah for the beat, i think its a pretty unique
extraordinary - i like it, the vocals are being dominated by everything else
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Definitely appreciate the feedback man... As far as the critiques, those are ALL mixtape tracks so from an engineering standpoint, not much you can do with a 2 track... know what I mean lol... I'll post up some 100% original material
Appreciate the feedback tho...

phatmanxxl said:
Google my screen name, links will show up. Mysoace, soundclick etc. I used acid pro usually to mix. Haven't done much lately, I stopped smoking weed and im not as motivated anymore. Weird huh?
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HAHA... you know everyone has their vices... stay with it if you love it man...

>>XpLiziT<<
...Production and engineering...don't really write anymore...glad to see other talented XDA'ers...
http://www.soundclick.com/xplizitrekordz

Who will be purchasing Nexus Q?

I think Nexus Q seems to be interesting. Don't know whether I will buy it.

Worth it... if....
tthaz777 said:
I think Nexus Q seems to be interesting. Don't know whether I will buy it.
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...if you get it off ebay for $200 w/ free shipping instead of the list price of $300+shipping and tax from the android market. If development takes off (which is looking good so far) you will definitely wish you would have gotten one new in box off of ebay not instead of waiting later. I can't imagine it will be long before people have all kinds of cool stuff running on this thing. Dev's have already got some nice preliminary work tests: launcher's running, netflix, pong, installing and running apps through adb. Good things are ahead.
Currently if you have a jellybean device you can push Google Play music and movies/tv shows as well as youtube. If you only have an ICS phone or tablet you can control it with the help from bobukcat. He has put together a super easy tutorial on how to use the Nexus Q with an ICS device (here) until Google puts out their updated app for everyone down to Gingerbread. With this I can only get Music. I don't own any tv or movies through Google Play so i cannot say if that works...
Being that I already use Google Music for my music it is nice not having to physically connect my tablet/phone to my receiver when i want to listen to music and do other stuff with my device at the same time. Google streams whatever quality your original file was so they will sound the same as the mp3s you have ripped. Last I looked Google's max bitrate supported is 320kbs and 20,000 uploaded songs. I don't think purchased song count towards your song count (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
All in all tthaz777, I'm glad I picked one up. The thing looks fantastic and construction quality is great. It has a satin finish so no nasty finger prints. The visualizations are cool and the boot sequence has a futuristic look. The convenience factor is great. Development possibilities wide open.
**I haven't hooked them up to analogue speakers yet so I cannot attest to how well their "audiophile grade amp" works. Anyone try this yet??

abw0046 said:
...if you get it off ebay for $200 w/ free shipping instead of the list price of $300+shipping and tax from the android market. If development takes off (which is looking good so far) you will definitely wish you would have gotten one new in box off of ebay not instead of waiting later. I can't imagine it will be long before people have all kinds of cool stuff running on this thing. Dev's have already got some nice preliminary work tests: launcher's running, netflix, pong, installing and running apps through adb. Good things are ahead.
Currently if you have a jellybean device you can push Google Play music and movies/tv shows as well as youtube. If you only have an ICS phone or tablet you can control it with the help from bobukcat. He has put together a super easy tutorial on how to use the Nexus Q with an ICS device (here) until Google puts out their updated app for everyone down to Gingerbread. With this I can only get Music. I don't own any tv or movies through Google Play so i cannot say if that works...
Being that I already use Google Music for my music it is nice not having to physically connect my tablet/phone to my receiver when i want to listen to music and do other stuff with my device at the same time. Google streams whatever quality your original file was so they will sound the same as the mp3s you have ripped. Last I looked Google's max bitrate supported is 320kbs and 20,000 uploaded songs. I don't think purchased song count towards your song count (someone correct me if I'm wrong).
All in all tthaz777, I'm glad I picked one up. The thing looks fantastic and construction quality is great. It has a satin finish so no nasty finger prints. The visualizations are cool and the boot sequence has a futuristic look. The convenience factor is great. Development possibilities wide open.
**I haven't hooked them up to analogue speakers yet so I cannot attest to how well their "audiophile grade amp" works. Anyone try this yet??
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Thanks for your long reply. You must be a Nexus fan.
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Just bought one on eBay for $205 sealed new in box
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app

Now that XBMC is running on the Q, I will be picking up at least one of them.

Free Music Downlaod

Google music is giving away FREE Busta Rhymes Albums (Year of The Dragon)

there is a reason they are...
anyways thanks for the tip

there's also allot of metal songs given out for free. go to the music section and look for free metal,
or go here
https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=By6fciwbw5kraweo5cmahrih2b4
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@OP, in what bitrate?

Thanks for the tip

Am not 100% sure but I will assume its 256kbps. I never bother to check these things, as long as you have a good quality headphones or speakers, you wont have to worry about it.
orangekid said:
@OP, in what bitrate?
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Google has a ton of free music. Check out this link. I try to purchase all the free stuff I can get (over 800 songs at this point)

I can't download for some reason.
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okie03 said:
Am not 100% sure but I will assume its 256kbps. I never bother to check these things, as long as you have a good quality headphones or speakers, you wont have to worry about it.
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Nonsense, higher grade equipment is way more sensitive to low quality music.

Did anyone watch the google event just now? What do you think about their new "Q"?

Did anyone watch the google event just now? What do you think about their new "Q"?
My thouhts;
The positive - great seamless connectivity between all platforms and the price ($35!)
The negative - I kinda like the way to have something "beautiful" (like the Nexus Q was) on top of my receiver in the living room. This whole thing with a hidden tiny HDMI-dongle is just not my cup of tea. I'm also a bit concerned about the sound quality through that tiny thing when streaming Google Music for example. One thing I liked about the Nexus Q was that it really had *great* output audio quality through the HDMI to my receiver.
Another thing I did not like at all is that they still keep bashing us that don't use google play to see our movies. I have most of my movies on my computer in MKV and I want to be able to stream them! This is again where airplay from apple is ahead of google...
What do you guys think?
Btw, is there ANY chance what-so-ever that the new stream button in youtube/google music will have compability with the Nexus Q?

I bought one just because of the price and portability !
I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope the new buttons work with the Q though. I liked having it as a jukebox on my mantle.
the lights are beautiful!

Volatyle said:
My thouhts;
The positive - great seamless connectivity between all platforms and the price ($35!)
The negative - I kinda like the way to have something "beautiful" (like the Nexus Q was) on top of my receiver in the living room. This whole thing with a hidden tiny HDMI-dongle is just not my cup of tea. I'm also a bit concerned about the sound quality through that tiny thing when streaming Google Music for example. One thing I liked about the Nexus Q was that it really had *great* output audio quality through the HDMI to my receiver.
Another thing I did not like at all is that they still keep bashing us that don't use google play to see our movies. I have most of my movies on my computer in MKV and I want to be able to stream them! This is again where airplay from apple is ahead of google...
What do you guys think?
Btw, is there ANY chance what-so-ever that the new stream button in youtube/google music will have compability with the Nexus Q?
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one can hope. or just keep using the old apps.

Nexus Q
Wish it had an option like the banana jacks for speakers like the nexus Q does.

Since they released a chrome cast SDK maybe someone at XDA will be able to implement support for chromecast in the nexus Q?
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Volatyle said:
Since they released a chrome cast SDK maybe someone at XDA will be able to implement support for chromecast in the nexus Q?
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I am hoping for the same thing.....if there are even Devs left....
Or, since we have the parts we need (HAL drivers etc) to make a chromecast rom?

I hope that the chromecast can get ported over i would hate to just toss my balls away they are very cool looking.
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Okay, so now google says they're adding chromecast compability with Google TV - which RUNS ANDROID. Just like the Nexus Q does.
Even more hope!!!
Vol

when I get home I'll try the app to see if it'll "map" to the Q. Yesterday it was trying to connect to the bluetooth stereo in my car.
Plan B is putting an amp in where I have my Q now and working via the audio out from the TV

rmm989 said:
when I get home I'll try the app to see if it'll "map" to the Q. Yesterday it was trying to connect to the bluetooth stereo in my car.
Plan B is putting an amp in where I have my Q now and working via the audio out from the TV
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I am using the Sonos AMP where my Q was so I still can connect HTMI on my TV to my speakers. Now adding the Chromecast to the TV I should now have a Q replacement.

My thoughts on the Chromecast compared to the Q:
I just got my 2 chromecasts in today and I wanted to share my experience.
It can do all the basic functionality the Q could and more, but there are a few things the Q did better regarding play music.
With the Q one could start music from one device, then pick up another and "now playing" would be synced. This isn't the case with chromecast. Same thing goes the the queue, It isn't synced either, which is odd because I thought I read that others could join in and add to the queue. I always loved this feature with the Q because I could start music in one room with my phone and later control it with my tablet in another room. Plus, my wife would always like to put her songs in on the playlist as well. I also had issues with connecting a second device and the music would just stop. Perhaps future updates with fix some of these bugs.
If you have any other questions, I'll be glad to answer them!

El Daddy said:
My thoughts on the Chromecast compared to the Q:
I just got my 2 chromecasts in today and I wanted to share my experience.
It can do all the basic functionality the Q could and more, but there are a few things the Q did better regarding play music.
With the Q one could start music from one device, then pick up another and "now playing" would be synced. This isn't the case with chromecast. Same thing goes the the queue, It isn't synced either, which is odd because I thought I read that others could join in and add to the queue. I always loved this feature with the Q because I could start music in one room with my phone and later control it with my tablet in another room. Plus, my wife would always like to put her songs in on the playlist as well. I also had issues with connecting a second device and the music would just stop. Perhaps future updates with fix some of these bugs.
If you have any other questions, I'll be glad to answer them!
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Thanks for the feedback. Now we're just waiting for the Q to get chromecast ability
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