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.

Spotify Premium

Multi Room Audio Player uses libspotify SDK. To use the Libspotify SDK you will need to get an application key. Only Premium Spotify users will be able to log in and play music with this library. Please go to Spotify Developer account and create an application key. Please use this link 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 time.
This is a list of most popular supported audio formats: MP3, WAV (Wave Audio), OGG (Ogg Vorbis), AIFF (Audio IFF), AAC (Advanced Audio Codec), MP4, M4A (MPEG 4 Audio, Apple Lossless Audio Codec, Advanced Audio Coding MPEG-4), FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), WMA (Windows Media Audio), APE (Monkey’s Audio) Read More …

How to stream music from your iPhone, iPod or iPad to Multi Room Audio Player wirelessly with Airplay

At first please download and install Bonjour discovery service on PC with Multi Room Audio Player installed. This service installed by default with iTunes.

Download Bonjour Service

Run Multi Room Audio Player and open AirPlayer settings window. Here you can change broadcasted name, set password, change ports and audio buffering time. 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. If you want to change some keyboard shortcuts, put cursor to the textbox and press new combination. If you want to remove hotkey, simply select appropriate action textbox and press Backspace key on your keyboard.

Clear all shortcuts from player

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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 WDM driver (non ASIO), even a laptop internal one. Unfortunately, ASIO devices are not supported yet. We test our software with internal Realtek, Cirrus Logic and external USB Sound Blaster from Creative Labs. Most of our customers prefer Asus Xonar. And of course Multi Room Audio Player works with Dante Virtual Soundcard if audio interface set to WDM. Read More …