MusicCast Controller 4+
Yamaha Corporation
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- Free
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Description
Choose what you want to listen to, where and how with MusicCast. MusicCast is a streaming and multi-room audio system built into many Yamaha products, including sound bars, wireless speakers, AV receivers and more. The MusicCast app lets you easily control them all.
Music Everywhere
-Listen to music throughout your whole home
-Listen to the same or different music in each room
Stream your favorites
-Stream from popular music services or from Internet Radio stations
-Access your music library from your smartphone, NAS drive or computer
-Stream internal or external content (TV, CD Player, Blu-ray Disc Player, USB, and more)
Don't skimp on quality
-Supports High Resolution Audio playback (up to 192kHz/24bit)
Create wireless setups
-MusicCast Stereo: Pair compatible models for a wireless 2-channel or 2.1-channel setup
-MusicCast Surround: Pair select models together for the ease of wirelss surround sound
Make your music yours
-Multiple settings to customize your experience
Requirements
- iOS14.0 or higher
- A Wi-Fi router and one or more MusicCast-enabled products within the same network
Compatible models vary by region.
Please refer to the following site for compatible models.
https://www.yamaha.com/2/musiccast/
This application performs following functions for purposes described below.
- Making a connection under Wi-Fi enabled environment
The application uses Wi-Fi function on your mobile terminal for the purpose of operating network-enabled devices.
- Accessing to music information stored in your smartphone / tablet
This application accesses to music information stored in your smartphone / tablet for the purpose of displaying, playing and editing the music information and/or playlist.
To setup your MusicCast devices, this app needs to find your Wi-Fi network as location information. This app doesn’t collect your actual location using GPS or Wi-Fi based positioning technologies.
What’s New
Version 5.70
- Compatible with new OS
- Other bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Need Alphabet list
App works well however so frustrated there is no alphabet listing on the right hand side of the screen to quickly select an album when using server. Only option is to manually scroll thru hundreds of albums to get to the right one. Hope you can fix this in a future update please!
I completely agree, when is the Alphabet list coming please?
Hardware: excellent, Software: not so much
Yamaha make excellent hardware. I use this app on several MusicCast players throughout the house. It streams and connects to tidal and the like easily. Streaming via a nas box or locally stored music is easy. Initial setup of the wireless network is overly complicated. The app itself is very clunky and laggy. The main frustration for me is the lack of gapless playback. There is a 4-5 sec gap between tracks regardless but only in this app. Using the system via airplay or Bluetooth no problems. I’d rather use a third party app to control the hardware. That has better integration and functionality than the ‘native’ software. It honestly needs a complete overhaul.
Update: while the new look looks great, the same issues are still there. Airplay has become is super sketchy, with ultra fibre wireless 500+ gb/s at home it still stutters and stuggles to play smoothly. Sometimes it plays fine, but 4 out of 5 times it just stutters along and is impossible to stop. My wifi unit has a direct line of site to the equipment and it still does it. Becoming a waste of time to be honest and I’d rather invest in another system altogether.
Complicated and limited
This app is a real pain if you only have one connected Yamaha speaker. It’s really set up for people who have multiple speakers/rooms to control. With just one speaker, navigation is really inefficient and every week it’s a hassle trying to find the alarm settings. Which leads me to...
A huge annoyance is that the alarm is only on every day or off every day. It’s not possible to have it only active on weekdays, for example, which is a standard feature with many other clock radio/alarms. Because I use this as a wake-up alarm, I need to remember to deactivate it on Friday night and reactivate it on Sunday night.
These two issues make my experience with a Yamaha speaker irritating. I would not buy a Yamaha device again for thee reasons.
App Privacy
The developer, Yamaha Corporation, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Yamaha Corporation
- Size
- 84 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Yamaha Corporation
- Price
- Free