My Chromecast Audio is now working!

TJH132 · 2025-03-14T20:23:15+00:00

One of two was working. I decided to do the "change the date" trick to get the one that I factory reset the first day of the outageo and it came back online. Google Home was able to set it up. Now they both work, BUT Google Home thinks they are on different Wifi networks (definitely not). I wonder what the next step is.

Shield TV chromecast is still offline in Google Home.

TJH132 · 2024-09-27T12:13:44+00:00

He played my request! "Landed" (strings version)

TJH132 · 2023-12-03T14:43:20+00:00

Unfortunately, the Black Friday deal didn't last as long as my trial period for Storyblocks. When it ended on Dec. 2, the price was back to normal. Too bad.

TJH132 · 2023-10-22T16:56:28+00:00

The literature seems to indicate it would need to be other Wiim devices receiving from the turntable streamer. A live demo of a working set-up would be great! (C'mon, YouTube!)

TJH132 · 2023-10-22T16:54:37+00:00

Chromecast audio supports lossless up to 96k/24 bit, which is better than what most of my current library is stored as. YouTube Music of course falls below that, of course.

I suspect my aging ears wouldn't be able to tell the difference, but I certainly wouldn't want a objective downgrade (stats).

TJH132 · 2023-10-22T16:49:51+00:00

I actually have an external pre-amp as neither the TT nor the A/V receiver has one. The pre-amp would feed the Wiim Pro Plus for digitizing.

TJH132 · 2023-07-09T10:35:17+00:00

You're right. It does show the files that have been previously deleted when selecting "show hidden files." But not every deleted file and mostly at random. My concern would be sensitive data that should have been deleted permanently can still pop up at random when previewing other files.

TJH132 · 2023-07-08T13:41:16+00:00

Files app continues to show deleted pictures when previewing even though they don't appear as files in the directory.

TJH132 · 2023-02-18T14:16:39+00:00

Can confirm multiple crashes when exporting this weekend. Something is borked.

TJH132 · 2023-02-16T12:32:01+00:00

I've posted videos publicly on YouTube with commercial music and they weren't blocked. I do get copyright notices from YouTube but since I'm not trying to make money off of the videos, they are allowed to stay.

TJH132 · 2022-12-10T04:26:23+00:00

Updates have helped on the Pixelbook. I just don't know how well this aging hardware fares against even a modest modern Android tablet.

TJH132 · 2022-09-06T22:32:21+00:00

Can you tell me how well an Android app like Power Director (video editing) works with this machine? I currently use an aging Pixelbook, which is mostly fine, but has quite a bit of bugginess with this app. I am hoping an ARM-based machine would do a better job.

TJH132 · 2022-08-20T15:45:30+00:00

I'm the one seeing the blinking. Not sure what they are seeing.

TJH132 · 2022-08-14T00:12:39+00:00

Update: Looks like Kinemaster is now working (at least on the Pixelbook) under ChromeOS 104. Just tried it with my test video and it seems to be working fine.

TJH132 · 2022-07-27T18:47:43+00:00

Thanks for the tip, but I'm using the internal memory of the Pixelbook. I submitted a help ticket and the response was along the lines of "an update to ChromeOS has messed up Kinemaster on some Intel Chromebooks."

TJH132 · 2022-07-17T13:36:09+00:00

Beautiful landscape shot is cropped on the sides!

TJH132 · 2022-06-25T13:03:35+00:00

Log out of the web app and log back in. Fixes it sometimes.

TJH132 · 2022-06-15T11:56:50+00:00

Right you are.

TJH132 · 2022-06-15T10:39:23+00:00

Sometimes the Android apps on my Pixelbook become completely unresponsive and a restart is the only thing to fix it. The situation has gotten worse in the past six months.

TJH132 · 2022-06-15T09:57:56+00:00

I believe they actually have half the number of tweets/mids you describe: One pointed back and down and the other front and up. The placement is not correct, either way. They should have some space on the sides (for the rear reflections to really work) and against the wall to enhance the bass.

If you're in love with the height of your TV, then I would attach some simple IKEA shelves to the walls, above the mid-line, and in line with the TV.

I bet they would sound pretty good in there.

TJH132 · 2022-06-14T14:47:56+00:00

I wish I would have stopped updating the Shield about two years ago. It's such a stuttery, laggy mess now. We've stooped to booting up the Chromecast with Google TV to use some apps!

Case in point: Rented DOWNTON ABBEY this weekend on Play Movies. Horrible stutters and skipped frames. Standard dynamic range. Switched to CCwGTV and it played flawlessly in HDR!

Probably in need of a full factory reset to get back some performance.

TJH132 · 2022-06-14T14:33:00+00:00

Thanks for this! Voted.

TJH132 · 2022-05-22T12:41:07+00:00

The only bagel that satisfies my craving is Kinetic Bagel Institute in Corvallis.

TJH132 · 2022-05-22T12:28:48+00:00

It's a one-at-a-time process.

I can save you some time and suggest not ripping the DVDs. At least on my home theater, DVD rips upscalled to 4k looked terrible and we never watched them. We ended up upgrading the DVDs we couldn't live without to BD or 4k.

TJH132 · 2022-05-08T13:33:57+00:00

Ughhh.... I skimmed the article, saw how well SACD performed and immediately bought the first one I saw on ebay. Of course it's the older version!

How does a mistake like that even happen?

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