Yamaha WXC-50 and musicast?

[KEW]

I am looking at the network streaming pre-amp as an option.
For a proper crossover, I can pair it with one of the many pro-audio amps which have a high pass filter for the mains and let the low pass filter on the sub take care of the sub.

I have my large collection of music on a 3TB Lacie HDD. How would I set up the HDD to access it via Musicast?
Is Musicast a reasonable way to access this music? If I understand correctly, I can shuffle or search for a particular song on my phone (or a tablet) then play it through the WXC-50, is that correct.
I used itunes for several years, but that is my only experience with using a music player, and that was on an iPad or Touch!
Thanks!

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I always stream the music files on my phone to MusicCast.

Yamaha say you can stream the music files from your Windows Network PC to MusicCast using your phone or tablet. But I haven't done that. Hopefully someone has done that and can elaborate.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

I read this online regarding MusicCast and Windows 10 PC. So will keep this in mind when I do try it.

"I turned on DHCP and everything worked again. Went back to my static ip, DNS, etc. and it stopped."

"I could not understand why I kept on losing access from my Yamaha Receiver (RX-A3010) to my DLNA devices. It would work for various DLNA devices for a long time but then would stop working and my DLNA devices were not visible. The web interface would not see any DLNA devices (although it was fine with Pandora, USB, etc.). After reading through the above I simply set the receiver to DHCP and I now I can "see" and use all my DLNA devices."

So I guess we have to set the IP Address to Automatic (Dynamic), instead of FIXED (Static)?

 

[pcosmic]

I am looking at the network streaming pre-amp as an option.
For a proper crossover, I can pair it with one of the many pro-audio amps which have a high pass filter for the mains and let the low pass filter on the sub take care of the sub.

I have my large collection of music on a 3TB Lacie HDD. How would I set up the HDD to access it via Musicast?
Is Musicast a reasonable way to access this music? If I understand correctly, I can shuffle or search for a particular song on my phone (or a tablet) then play it through the WXC-50, is that correct.
I used itunes for several years, but that is my only experience with using a music player, and that was on an iPad or Touch!
Thanks!

MusicCast is wonderful!

Easiest option:
IF your HDD has a) its own power supply and is b) formatted in FAT32 (compatibility is mostly guaranteed with the WXC-50 if you can satisfy a and b), plug it into the usb port on the back of the WXC-50 . On the musiccast app, hit the USB icon and access your entire folder tree of songs on the drive (for playback).

A tad bit more setup required:
ALMOST ALL MODEMS have a usb outlet these days for "storage sharing" (or whatever else they call it these days). In fact, it is quite rare if a modem or router doesn't have a usb outlet in it these days. Plug your HDD directly into your modem/router and follow the instruction manual to set it up as a media server. Get on the musiccast app and access your songs through the server option.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

MusicCast Compatible music files: MP3, MP4, WMA, WAVE, FLAC, ALAC (Apple Lossless), AIFF, DSD.

For ALAC - up to 96kHz/24 Bit
For WAV, FLAC, AIFF, DSD - up to 192kHz/24 Bit

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Last night I played a little bit streaming from my Windows 10 64bit PC to my Yamaha CX-A5100 MusicCast using my iPad MusicCast and AV Controller Apps.

Setup:
1. I did set the IP address to default setting of Automatic IP.
2. Copy some MP3 music files into the "Music Library".
3. Made sure the Streaming Options in Network is set to ALLOW for everything listed - I think the most important 2 things are the PC itself and the Yamaha CX-A5100. So under the streaming options, the Yamaha CX-A5100 is listed.

Using MusicCast.
1. I used the AV Controller App to Power Up the CX-A5100.
2. I pushed the "SERVER" button for Input device.
3. I then used the MusicCast App on my iPad and pushed the "SERVER" button.
4. Then my PC (I named my PC ANTEC4) showed up on my iPad MusicCast app as "ANTEC4".
5. I pushed "ANTEC4". Then I pushed the "MUSIC" button. Then I saw all the MP3 files.

I clicked on those MP3 files and it played on my CX-A5100.

So next I will probably test using other file formats. But I have for the first time EVER streamed from my PC to MusicCast - I have always streamed directly from my iPad or phone to MusicCast.

 

[kxthor]

Great information in this thread, thanks i was curious about all this too.

I wonder hot it works with downloading amazon music so you don't have to stream it every time, or if it only downloads to phones/iPad and not pc.

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

Great information in this thread, thanks i was curious about all this too.

I wonder hot it works with downloading amazon music so you don't have to stream it every time, or if it only downloads to phones/iPad and not pc.

As long as it is a file (MP3, WMA, WAVE, FLAC, ALAC), you can copy it to phones, tablets, and PCs.