This guide isn't for Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon Music. This guide is for people who have a whole music collection of MP3 or Hi-Res FLAC music files sitting on their computer or media server and want to stream it across their homes. Streaming or casting your music collection wirelessly across your home couldn't be easier, and with the variety of speakers available with WiFi, Bluetooth or AirPlay, including Alexa devices or Chromecast, there is plenty of choice.
Connect over wifi to your music folder on your computer using MusicStreamer available on iPad / iPhone and Mac. MusicStreamer will scan all your music files and your albums will start to appear quite rapidly.
You can start streaming your music immediately to other devices around the house. Depending on the types of devices you have, streaming or casting your music to several sets of speakers is also possible.
You can also easily Import your Playlists.
Simply tap the AirPlay icon to the right of the volume control and select your AirPlay device.
If you have more than one AirPlay2 enabled device or HomePods, you can stream your music files to more than one set of speakers in your home. This is called Multi-room.
Using Bluetooth speakers such as Sound bars with MusicStreamer is easy, select your bluetooth device under iOS settings and your music will play through this device.
Simply tap the Chromecast icon to the right of the volume control and select your Chromecast device.
Unlike Bluetooth devices, Chromecast works over WiFi so you can connect to multiple sets of speakers. This is called Multi-room. For example you can create a new Group of speakers called Downstairs that has both your Living Room speakers and your Kitchen speakers linked together.
See our guide for setting up Multi-room.
Alexa devices have great speakers that can be connected to via bluetooth, but just require a little more setup to get them streaming your own music files. Follow our simple guide for Echo and Show devices for FireCube see this guide.
Follow our simple step by step guides to setup your Amazon Echo and Show devices or Amazon FireCube to stream your MP3s.