Music Player Sharing

[ajaVT]

An issue has floated around for a long time of getting a group of boats able to play the same music when rafted up. A while back there were the FM converters which didn't work well and I have not really heard of another way for a group of boats to all have volume control of the same music. Does anyone in the group know of an app or some other way to share music over wi-fi or bluetooth etc? It doesn't seem like a difficult problem to solve technically but just don't know of anything currently available. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Big Block Power]

Why wouldn't you all just pick a station on pandora, iheart, and spotify?

[Bfun220]

You could try Ampme. But you may run into music sync problems because of different data speeds across mobile networks.

[thunder550]

Might look at Chromecast Audio devices. When they are on the same wifi network, you can group them. I have 3 at my house, and when I select the group it basically turns 3 separate stereos into a whole-home audio system. You can adjust the audio delay for each one individually to eliminate any sync timing issues. Not sure if you can do it ad-hoc (without a wireless router), but might be worth looking in to.

[Bfun220]

Might look at Chromecast Audio devices. When they are on the same wifi network, you can group them. I have 3 at my house, and when I select the group it basically turns 3 separate stereos into a whole-home audio system. You can adjust the audio delay for each one individually to eliminate any sync timing issues. Not sure if you can do it ad-hoc (without a wireless router), but might be worth looking in to.

Maybe run hot spot off your phone.

[Big Block Power]

Might look at Chromecast Audio devices. When they are on the same wifi network, you can group them. I have 3 at my house, and when I select the group it basically turns 3 separate stereos into a whole-home audio system. You can adjust the audio delay for each one individually to eliminate any sync timing issues. Not sure if you can do it ad-hoc (without a wireless router), but might be worth looking in to.

Maybe run hot spot off your phone.

There's normally a hot spot in the water.

[Bfun220]

Might look at Chromecast Audio devices. When they are on the same wifi network, you can group them. I have 3 at my house, and when I select the group it basically turns 3 separate stereos into a whole-home audio system. You can adjust the audio delay for each one individually to eliminate any sync timing issues. Not sure if you can do it ad-hoc (without a wireless router), but might be worth looking in to.

Maybe run hot spot off your phone.

There's normally a hot spot in the water.

[mtwbldr]

The tech is getting so close to making this very simple. This could be rigged up in what seems complicated/not terrible with lets say 2-4 boats. Using apple products and power inverters. Starting with establishing a network using an AirPort express ($100), then Apple Tvs ($129 refurb-$150 new) with aux cords going to head units. Apple just updated their software to Airplay to multiple devices so one phone could connect to a few apple tvs and play the same audio.

[thunder550]

^^ Agreed on the tech. The cost is why I suggested Chromecast Audio devices, they are $35 each. Then use someone's phone as a wifi hotspot as Bfun suggested. CCA devices are powered by USB cables too, easy to plug into a USB port on a head unit for power or a cigarette lighter adapter.

[ajcampen]

Happens upon this

https://wetsounds.com/pages/products/WS-A-LINK

[Bobo87]

Looks cool but still a little pricey at $159 per unit. Still seems like there should be an app based solution.

[NautiGirl]

The Wetsounds solution works well, have a friend that uses it. Gotta pay to play.