Listen to vinyl records wirelessly throughout your home using an Android device.
About Vinyl Cast
Vinyl Cast is a music & audio app developed by Allen Schober.
Download Statistics
Vinyl Cast has been downloaded 5.6 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 64 times.
User Ratings
Vinyl Cast is rated 3.82 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 45 ratings.
App Information
Vinyl Cast is FREE to download. The APK download size is 4.59 MB. The latest version available is v1.3.0-playstore. The last update was on February 21, 2024.
Technical Requirements
Vinyl Cast requires Android 6.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play May 2020.
Description
Vinyl Cast is an Android app used to wirelessly stream the audio of a vinyl record player (or any audio source for that matter) to Google Cast-enabled (Chromecast built-in) devices or groups.
The Vinyl Cast App makes use of Android's USB audio peripheral support, audio recorder, media codecs, Google Oboe library, media APIs, and Cast API to stream the audio from a connected audio source to Cast-enabled devices.
Required Hardware 🔘 Android Device 🔘 USB Audio Device 🔘 USB OTG Adapter 🔘 Audio Source 🔘 Cast-Enabled Device
📱 Android Device An Android device will be used to capture raw audio from your record player (or any analog audio source), perform audio format conversion (if selected), and act as a webserver to stream the digital audio stream to Cast-enabled devices. The Vinyl Cast app currently requires an Android device running Android 6.0 or later.
🎤 USB Audio Device A USB audio interface is used to capture the raw audio from your Audio Source (e.g. record player) and make the analog audio stream available for recording/streaming by the Vinyl Cast app. If your analog audio source includes a USB interface, you can use this. If your record player only has analog audio output, I would recommend the Behringer UCA202 (without pre-amp), Behringer UFO202 (with pre-amp), ART USB Phono Plus (a standalone pre-amp with USB interface).
🔌 USB Adapter You will need a way to connect the USB Audio Device to your Android device. Typically, your USB Audio Device has USB-A male connector, and you will need a USB adapter/cable to attach the USB Audio Device to your Android device.
The USB adapter you need depends on the type of USB connector your Android device has (usually how you charge the device). If you have USB-C connector on your Android device, you'll need a USB-C to USB-A female adapter. If you have USB Micro-B connector, you'll need a USB OTG adapter from USB Micro-B to USB-A female. Note that USB adapters are now often included in the box with new Android phones to help transfer data from an old device (e.g. Pixel devices include a "Quick Switch Adapter" going from USB-C to USB-A female).
An adapter with power passthrough can be extra useful to be able to charge your Android device while also connected to your USB Audio Device.
🎶 Audio Source You'll need an audio source (e.g. a vinyl record player) to provide audio input to the Vinyl Cast app.
📡 Cast-Enabled Device You'll need a Google Cast-enabled (aka Chromecast built-in) device hooked up to speakers to receive and playback the audio streamed from the Vinyl Cast app.
More information available on GitHub.
Made in Austin, TX.
Feature Graphic by Steve Harvey on Unsplash
Recent changes: - Update to support latest Android versions and other library updates - Add user-configurable gain
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I feed the tape monitor of my receiver into a USB ADC connected to my old Pixel 4 XL. Now I can cast anything plugged into my receiver (Cd player and turntable) to all of my Chrome casts and Chromecast Audios around the house. It works great and is really easy to set up and use. It sounds great and has really added a new layer of variety to my whole house audio setup.
★★★★★Patrick Diola (Patrick Ian Diola)· Jun 29, 2024
Working great for me when using AAC encoding. WAV encoding causes the crashing. AAC sounds pretty good, at least as good as any MP3 or streaming service. THANK YOU DEVS!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌
★★★★☆Philip Smith· Jun 10, 2020
Thank you so much for developing this app! Can now listen to my vinyl all over the house. Going to purchase the analogue to USB converter, so I can cast CDs too. It's working with a Motorola G6 phone running Android 9, but not a Lenovo TB8704 tablet running A8.10 on which it crashes. It sort of works on a Motorola G8 Power phone runing A10, but only in lossless mode and the music keeps speeding up and slowing down. Update: Have now bought an analogue to USB converter and can now cast my CDs using the Motorola G6 phone. Have now got it working on the A10 phone by selecting low latency and lossy options.
★★☆☆☆Ben Peterson· Aug 4, 2020
Two stars for concept and ease of installation. However, the app is quite prone to crashing. After about a dozen straight crashes, I was able to achieve a stable run after a restart. However, the audio feed became corrupted and needed another restart. Needs work.
★☆☆☆☆Mac Rebant· Mar 15, 2021
Crashes constantly. Even when it was working it sounded pretty bad, very tinny sounding. Too bad because I thought I found a holy grail.
★☆☆☆☆Stephen MacPhail· Dec 9, 2020
Brilliant concept. Hats off to the dev for that. But it never works, unfortunately. Just keeps crashing and sometime causes the whole phone to reboot. Tried everything. Shame really as I bought all the gear too in the hope this would work!!
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