A few newbie questions

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John Strzykalski
I am brand new to steaming. Purchased a Node today and have several questions. Using it with Apple Air Play After I use my iPhone to stream music, how do I go about using my phone with its internal speaker? Also does the music originate from phone or over the internet. And lastly , does it put a drain on my iPhone battery while the node is being used or is my phone out of the equation once the music starts playing.. Any replies would be greatly appreciated
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    ALI NAQVI

    Hi John, 

    Welcome to the Bluesound family! I had the same sort of Qs when I joined the Bluesound world. Hopefully Bluesound, or someone with much more knowledge than myself, will respond to your questions but basically my understanding is that your phone is purely the remote control and nothing else. Just like your TV remote is for your telly, so no impact on your phone other than when you're turning the volume down or changing inputs/tracks etc. 

    Not being an iPhone user I can't answer your Q on the internal speaker. 

    Happy streaming!

    Ali

  • John Strzykalski

    Hi Ali

    Thank you for your reply.  I fully charged my phone overnight.  Today I will keep a close eye on the battery usage.  

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  • Seppi Evans
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    Normally… the phone would be considered as a remote control and that once music is playing the phone could be taken out of the house and music would continue playing.

    With Airplay on your phone the music is pulled from the Internet using Wi-Fi then Airplay uses Wi-Fi to a BluOS device, this does have a battery life impact.

    If you use the streaming services built into the BluOS app then as Ali says it’s just like a remote control and the Bluesound player makes the internet connection.

    Edit… after you have finished sending audio to an Airplay device you use the control centre like you did to select the Bluesound device but this time your iPhone.

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  • John Strzykalski

    Hi Seppi,  you correct  Started off with a fully charged iPhone this morning.  Did not use the phone much for anything else  After 13 hours of steaming I still have about 40% battery lie left  I can  live with that.  Was worried it would be worse.

    I was using an Audio Engine B1, before I bought the Node.  My Node is in my living room. I wanted to stream music in my workshop in the basement.  The B1 is a Bluetooth receiver.  I took it down to my shop and I was able to pair it up with the Node.  The I plugged it into a little receiver I have there, and it I had non stop streaming all day.  Worked great!!!

    Thanks for your reply

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  • ALI NAQVI
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    The above string got me thinking which hopefully Seppi or Bluesound can answer....

    My Q is if you have downloaded a high resolution playlist to your phone, from say Tidal or another streaming platform, does the BLUESOUND player then play the music from your phone at that bit rate (if that's the right expression?) or is it playing it a lower quality because it is being streamed from the internet, not the phone? I can't quite get my head around the fact that if the phone is just the remote control (but the music is downloaded on your phone) how it can then play it from the internet at that same quality ie. it's physically downloaded to your phone? 

    This is quite difficult to explain so hopefully I'm making myself clear?

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  • Seppi Evans
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    If you are using the Tidal app and the Tidal connect function rather than Bluetooth or Airplay the Tidal app tells the Bluesound player to play directly from the Tidal server. It will then play at its full quality of the chosen track - upto 24/192 

    If using the Tidal App and Bluetooth or Airplay then the music is streamed from your phone / tablet but limited in bitrate.

    Hope that makes sense.

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  • ALI NAQVI

    Thanks Seppi. It does make sense. So the Tidal app tells the Tidal Server to play the track at it's full quality  (assuming that's the audio quality you have selected in in the settings) regardless of whether it's downloaded or not?

    Is that the same for Spotify playlists that I've downloaded to my phone? Although I know Spotify's bitrate isn't as high at 320kbps, I think. 

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  • Seppi Evans
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    Absolutely - spot on. 

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  • ALI NAQVI

    Fab - thanks!

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