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can a device this big turn your old
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clunker speakers into cool wireless
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audio systems you bet it
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can Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about wireless audio I know you're
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thinking okay you have apple AirPlay and
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you have Bluetooth why on Earth would
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you need something else turns out that
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neither of those work real great if if
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you're in the windows world or in
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particular if you're on an Android
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system so AirPlay not happening and
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Bluetooth as much as Bluetooth is really
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cool Bluetooth drains these little
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devices and so hopefully you know this
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if you don't use any Bluetooth devices
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you want to turn that service off but
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where does that leave you where it
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leaves you is with something called
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chomecast audio from Google yep that
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same Google and that's this guy so let's
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start with an unboxing
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Open Secret truth I don't really get
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unboxing videos so pieces of boxes and
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most importantly here's the device
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itself so let's make this look a little
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neater and so this is a chomecast audio
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device and you can see it's pretty small
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it's about the size of a silver dollar
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maybe a little bit thicker that's it and
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it has an audio plug it's a 3. 5 mm Jack
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it comes with a nice little plug you can
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use you can obviously use longer ones if
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you want and then it's powered by a
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micro USB and as you saw in the Box it
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comes with a micro USB wall adapter and
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a nice long cable so you can connect it
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to your wall easily enough and then all
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you do is you plug this into whatever
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audio Source you want now I'm using it
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with an iPhone and let me just go ahead
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and show you you ready we'll just play
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some music through the other chomecast
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to an i loud speaker from ik multimedia
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so so on my phone I'm using actually a
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third-party app because unfortunately
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Apple doesn't really like Chromecast so
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Apple doesn't support it in iTunes but
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there's a third party there's a
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third-party app if we can get that music
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off um called AllCast free app download
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it put it on it's not a great app but it
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does the job of course primarily you're
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going to be using these devices with
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probably your Android phone or with your
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computers now on a computer it's a much
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more elegant experience and particularly
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if you're running and you're already in
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the Google world like you have an
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Android phone or tablet then it is a
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super no-brainer it's really easy to
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work with this if you have uh play music
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through Google and you can have that on
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your iPhone if you have that with your
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music library it works great and I'll
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tell you not only that but this works
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directly with Spotify and YouTube and
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TuneIn and iHeart Radio also so if you
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use any of these services this is a
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no-brainer way for you to get Spotify
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going on those old speakers that
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otherwise aren't even Wireless at all
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and suddenly they have this and how does
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this work then it works through WiFi so
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there's a little bit of setup it's
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pretty straightforward the instructions
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are on the inside of the box as you can
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see and it's pretty easy to do it took
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me just a minute or two and now it just
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shows up as another device for you know
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software and apps and systems that
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actually work with Chromecast so really
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easy and very inexpensive it's 35 bucks
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including all the cables you saw here
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and that great box and speaking of great
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stuff can I ask you to click the
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Subscribe button so that we can stay
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connected down the road thank you
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appreciate that now back to the
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chomecast audio so this lets you send
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audio from basic Al any device again on
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the iOS side it's a little clumsy
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because Apple doesn't integrate it into
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iTunes or anything but there's
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workarounds so it's doable if you're on
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a Windows machine if you have a
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Chromebook you know all of those things
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even if you're using Google Chrome it
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actually works with this directly and
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those make it much easier and let's see
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so you can work with this the built-in
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cable that it comes with is a 3.5 mm but
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you can also buy from Google's store you
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can buy an RCA adapter or an optical
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adapter depending on what you're
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plugging into and you know this is a
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great example with this ey loud cuz this
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is a very nice speaker it's designed to
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be like a little portable monitor for
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guitar players or musicians and so it
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has Bluetooth and it has Au in and
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that's all they got so that works
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perfectly fine because we plug in our
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handy little chomecast audio and now we
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suddenly have this thing working over
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Wi-Fi so it's the win-win this is a
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speaker that had been sitting and not
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doing much for us so now we have it and
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it's another great music Source there's
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no pairing involved there's no hassles
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it's not like Bluetooth once you get it
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set up it's just there so this is the
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Google Chromecast audio and you can
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learn more about it at
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Chromecast audio this is Dave Taylor and
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I'm going back to my dramatic music and
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I will catch you in my next video
