Hi-Fi Cast is a music player that allows you to easily stream music from internet radio stations, UPnP/DLNA media servers or from your phone to your Chromecast enabled devices (including smart home speakers) or UPnP media player /DLNA.
Main features:
• Play music from DLNA/UPnP media servers, SHOUTcast Internet Radio*, Internet Radio playlists or from your Android device.
• Play music on Chromecast (including compatible smart home speakers), UPnP/DLNA media player (including compatible Smart TVs, PVRs, AV receivers, wireless speakers, media streamers, Bose Soundtouch and Yamaha MusicCast2 speakers) or your Android device local
• Languages: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Polski, Русский
• Shuffle your entire library and/or any combination of albums, artists, genres, etc. regardless of the size of your music library (when using DLNA/UPnP, you need a server that supports browsing – most do).
• Home screen widget
• Three themes to choose from, including an ultra dark theme designed to reduce battery consumption on AMOLED screens.
• Wake Up
• Last.fm scrobble
• Android Auto*
Chromecast features:
• Seamless playback of MP3, AAC, FLAC and WAV files when playing on Chromecast devices (enable this feature via Settings > Chromecast)*
• Volume normalization (ReplayGain) when playing compatible FLAC files on Chromecast devices (enable this feature via Settings > Chromecast)*
• Transcoding of formats not supported by Chromecast devices, eg. DSD, ALAC.
UPnP/DLNA features:
• Quick and efficient search of your music collection regardless of size. Search for albums, artists and songs (requires your UPnP/DLNA server to support searching).
• Designed for the largest (and smallest) music collections. Effortlessly scroll through thousands of albums, artists or songs at a time. Limited only by the capabilities of your UPnP/DLNA media server.
• Full shuffle capabilities (for UPnP/DLNA servers that support search)
• Create local playlists
• Access your album booklets from within the app when using Minimserver as your Media Server.
• Playback on UPnP/DLNA renderer. If your renderer supports gapless, enable it via Settings > UPnP/DLNA (even if your renderer doesn’t support gapless, enabling this setting may reduce gaps between tracks).
Internet radio features:
• SHOUTcast Radio*
• Create, edit, import and export* radio station playlists
• Add your own custom radio station URLs
Chromecast Information*
• Seamless playback via Chromecast Audio devices is limited to up to 24-bit/96kHz WAV and FLAC files, and seamless compatible MP3 and AAC files. Gapless playback via Chromecast video devices is limited to 16-bit FLAC and WAV files, and gap-compatible MP3 and AAC files. Your phone/tablet must remain connected to the local network during gapless Chromecast playback.
• Loudness normalization is limited to FLAC files containing ReplayGain tags. Loudness normalization via the “original” Chromecast is limited to 16-bit FLAC files.
SHOUTcast Radio information*
• When playing SHOUTcast Radio on a UPnP/DLNA media player, the player must support playing SHOUTcast streams.
In-App Purchase (Premium)*
Upgrading to premium will give you the following features:
• The app will no longer display ads
• Export of playlists
• Android Auto support
Troubleshooting, bug reporting and feedback
If you experience any problems with Hi-Fi Cast or have encountered a bug, please contact us using the ‘Send Feedback’ menu item in the app (and tap ‘Include system info’).
Hi-Fi Cast Guide and discussion forum:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hi-cast-help-forum
Become a beta tester:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.findhdmusic.app.upnpcast
Internet Radio in this app is powered by SHOUTcast Radio:
https://www.shoutcast.com
Images used in the screenshots are licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license:
https://www.pexels.com/photo-license/
