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Originally Posted by nfotiu
All right, I can't let that slip... Streaming music is seamless with iOS as long as you have an Airport Express or Apple TV(sound like intermediary devices to me) vs Android that requires an intermediary device?
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The difference is that when you're streaming to an Xbox (at least last I was aware) you have to turn on your Xbox and your TV and browse through your library through that to play music. It's not like with an Airport Express or something that's always on and you can push music to it from your phone (or use your phone as a control to push music from a computer/server) whenever you want without getting up. That's a massive difference to me, as I can have whole house audio with multiple zones that can all be controlled natively from an iPhone or iTunes.
There are 3rd party options that match Apple's seamlessness for this (Sonos being probably the best example) but the cost is pretty prohibitive.
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I agree if you have lots of other Apple stuff and buy all your content from itunes, you'd be pretty dumb to get an Android phone. Lots of people don't want to get locked in to getting everything from Apple though.
BTW, my Onkyo receiver works completely seamlessly with the Android Onkyo app in a nice 2 way fashion of being able to control the receiver, see the displays on the app, control the Receiver's Pandora app, and stream music from my phone. That's about as slick as it gets, I'd say.
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That is a good setup, but you're getting locked in there as well if you want to expand on it. If you want a single control for multiple setups you're just going to have to get another Onkyo receiver. For my stuff I also like to use some older audio gear which obviously isn't capable of DLNA, so that wouldn't really work.