On: Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player

[nkristoffersen]

I'll point out a new feature with iOS I recently discovered. It is now possible to share audio to other apple headphones (with their customer BT chip) https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/share-audio-with-airp...

Very smooth UX and useful when watching a movie on a plane on an iPad.

[Wowfunhappy → nkristoffersen]

As with many things, it works great as long as everyone owns a recent product from the same company.

[PunksATawnyFill → nkristoffersen]

Thanks for that info.

Unfortunately useless for anyone not using Apple's mediocre-at-best listening devices. Like the huge number of people with Bose wireless cans.

[lozaning → PunksATawnyFill]

Bose has their own version of this and has for some time, as long as both people are using Bose headphones: https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/article/using-music-share...

[swinglock → lozaning]

Which requires both users carry a recent Bose product instead, of course.

[OGWhales → PunksATawnyFill]

I really don't understand why we can't just have the headphone jack back. Did it even take up any significant amount of space?

[swinglock → OGWhales]

Sure, it takes up some space. But so does having to carry dongles. If Apple made an iPhone with the jack back again and a couple percent smaller battery, I'd take the jack. The phones has already been getting thicker every year ever since 6 (the 2nd last iPhone so far with a jack), so that's no argument.

[OGWhales → swinglock]

Right? Not to mention the dongles break super easily and also I can't charge my phone and listen to music at the same time :/

[ghostpepper → OGWhales]

I imagine it helped deliver on another feature customers have been asking for for years, which is water proofing.

[apazzolini → PunksATawnyFill]

Of all the possible audio quality brands to use in comparison, you chose Bose.

Thanks for that laugh.

[Cougher → apazzolini]

It's a common enough product, so isn't it relevant?

[bigiain → Cougher]

Sure. Arguably though, as a brand it's at least as deserving of your "mediocre at best" description as Apple's stuff...

[Cougher → bigiain]

I could take the same slippery slope of audio purism and criticize most of the audio choices that people are making here. But that would be douchy.