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Documentation Is Now Live
The official documentation for Multi Room Audio Player v7 is now live at docs.multizoneaudioplayer.com. It’s the new home for setup guides, feature…
Read more →How to expose a local audio server to the Internet
We found a quick solution to control our Multi Room Audio Player over the Internet. Please download ngrok software and expose your local audio server to…
Read more →Control the player from a web browser (v2)
The new web remote control is available now. Simply enable API in the Settings and go to the http://remote.multiroomaudioplayer.com Please ensure that you…
Read more →Prevent players from playing in one zone
Some of our users are confused, that in the new version of Multi Room Audio Player, they cannot assign two or more players to one zone. Please don’t…
Read more →How to move Multi Room Audio Player software to a new computer
The best way to move Multi Room Audio player from one PC to another is to install it on a new computer and then copy one folder and few files with all…
Read more →How to get Google Service Framework ID
Please notice that Google changed access to Google Music and now you need fill in Google Service Framework ID of any active Google Play Music device to…
Read more →Play Google Play Music playlists
Now we’ve added an ability to play playlists directly from your Google Music account. So at first please go to the Settings and select GMusic tab, enter…
Read more →How to use USB GPIO modules with Multi Room Audio Player
Now you can directly control our Multi Room Audio Player with your hardware without any intermediate computers software units. We’ve added support for…
Read more →Select the network adapter for the API service
One of our customers from Brasil, faced with problem to start Multi Room Audio Player WCF/REST API on computer system with Multiple Network Interfaces…
Read more →How to make microphone announcements over individual players
So for example you created a regular player with playlist and now you need to make microphone announcement to this player over current playlist. At first…
Read more →How to play a jingle in the selected zone
At first you need create at least one Jingle. Open Zone Control Center (Ctrl-Alt-Z shortcut) window and double click on the desired zone to show it. You…
Read more →How to change player mode in Multi Room Audio Player
There are five player modes in our Multi Room Audio Player. Tracks that you play appear in the Playlist pane. You can change the order in which the items…
Read more →How to setup Spotify music service
At first you need sign up to Spotify Premium account and get an application key. If you have regular Spotify account, please upgrade it to Premium. Multi…
Read more →Prevent unauthorized access to your audio system
Please go to the Tools-Settings menu and open Security tab. Enable Protect with Password checkbox and enter your password twice. Press OK and close…
Read more →Supported audio formats
Multi Room Audio Player supports many audio formats. And their number is growing, we use a plugin system, so adding the new format does not take much…
Read more →How to play internet radio station
At first, please create a new regular player. Set zones to play then go to the player menu File and select Play URL… Enter or copy-paste your internet…
Read more →How to create scheduler task
Please go to the Multi Room Audio Player Tools menu and open the Scheduler window (or press the Ctrl+Alt+S hotkey). Give your task a unique name and set…
Read more →Stream music from iPhone or iPad via AirPlay
At first please download and install Bonjour discovery service on PC with Multi Room Audio Player installed. This service installed by default with…
Read more →How to manage multiple audio players simultaneously
Some time ago I showed you how to control all players simultaneously. Now you can use checkboxes and select some players that you need. But if you often…
Read more →How to change or clear keyboards shortcuts from player
In previous post we talked about how to assign hot keys. And now a short tutorial about How to remove them. Please go to Tools – Settings, Hot Keys tab.…
Read more →How to assign and use hot keys
Please start Multi Room Audio Player and go to Tools – Settings and select the Hot Keys tab. Here you can assign keyboard short cuts to some player’s…
Read more →Compatible audio cards
One of our frequently asked questions is – Please recommend some capable audio cards ? You can use any regular internal or USB external sound card with…
Read more →Please let us know if you find any bugs
Please help us to fix your issue. 1. At first please turn on Log recording. Go to Settings and enable Write Log feature. Please send us latest logs files…
Read more →Dante Audio Test Report on Multi Room Audio Player
Equipment used for testing: 1. Pistonsoft Multi Room Audio Player -Trial Version 2. Audinate Dante Virtual Soundcard – Ver 3.7.4.3 3. Audinate Dante…
Read more →Configuring Sound and Audio Devices in Windows
Trying to configure Multi Room Audio Player zone, you can notice that your sound device is running in stereo instead of 5.1 or 7.1 channel mode. So you…
Read more →How to manage all players simultaneously?
If you want start or stop all players at once, please open Players Control Center window from Players menu or use Ctrl+Alt+P hot key. and check “Apply to…
Read more →Getting Started
At first you need create zones, as much as you need, then please create players and associate each player with appropriate zones using Zones Tab. Your…
Read more →How to control Multi Room Audio Player remotely via web browser
Please start Multi Room Audio Player and go to the Tools menu, click on the Settings and select Remote tab. Please turn on “Enable remote control”…
Read more →How to create a new player
Once you have created a zone, you need to create players. Go to the main menu Players. Currently, you can create three types of players. For audio files…
Read more →How to control Multi Room Audio Player via command line
You can control Multi Room Audio Player using REST API as well as via command line interface with console commands. At first run main software, then find…
Read more →How to create a new Zone
To create a new zone in Multi Room Audio Player , first go to Zones menu and click New zone or press Ctrl-Shift-Z hotkey. The new zone is created and the…
Read more →How to get Multi Room Audio Player track title without using API
Do you know that Multi Room Audio Player writes track information to the XML files? If you don’t want to use the REST API you can get the title of the…
Read more →How to generate playlist with periodic ads or announcements
At first please create M3U playlist with all your ads. Start Multi Room Audio Player , go to Tools menu and run “Music Database” (Ctrl-Alt-M hot key) In…
Read more →How to schedule Jingles
Previous article helps you to create Jingle. Today I’ll tell you how to schedule any Jingle with Multi Room Audio Player built-in Scheduler. Please go to…
Read more →How to create Jingles
Please run Multi Room Audio Player and go to the Main menu – Tools, select Jingles. Or you can use Ctrl-Alt-J hotkey to show Jingles window. Then go to…
Read more →How to connect sound card to amplifier
To connect amplifiers or speakers to the audio card, you’ll likely need a few Mini Jack to RCA cables or adapters. RCA to Mini Jack cable Alternatively,…
Read more →How to use Multi Room Audio Player REST API
The REST API provides programmatic access to control all zones and players. Using WCF or REST API you can create your own handy remote control desktop or…
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