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Beep: Bringing music to every room of your home
- racl101 13y agoOr for $10 you can, you know, buy a pair of sony earbuds and plug it to your smartphone and you've got music in every room, and outside. Beat that!
- ndrake 13y agoInteresting. I probably wouldn't drop my Squeezebox setup for it since it seems to require iOS (7 only??)/Andriod devices to control what's playing and doesn't yet support playing audio from a computer.
- slewis 13y agoHey there! Shawn from Beep. We listed iOS7 since we're shipping in fall, it's market share is already pretty high. But if it's not high enough then we'll support iOS6. We are also looking at supporting DLNA or some other local music protocol due to interest we're seeing. Btw, love Squeezebox, Dean Blacketter, one of the founders and CTO is a friend and advisor to us.
- rguzman 13y agoAre interference effects between speakers that are in separate rooms a problem for sound quality? Does beep try to add delays to signals to compensate for this? I imagine it is a pretty hard problem for N > 2 assuming. I'd love a technical blog post about that.
- slewis 13y agoGood question. We don't delay signals since the user may walk between rooms. Syncing is an interesting problem for sure. It's really a question of how precisely you can sync the clocks between devices. Our current method is fairly naive, we let ntp sync clocks for us, count the number of samples played, and drop samples every now and then on devices that are behind. This gets us to 2ms accuracy between devices. We could get much lower with a better algorithm. But 2ms is very difficult to notice in a home listening situation between rooms.
- jjb123 13y agoSonos for every/all speakers. Really impressive. Does it keep playing after I leave the house and independent of phone streaming?
- slewis 13y agoIt's independent of the phone. So the phone just acts like a remote control