[HTC 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] madcowintucson:
Hi, I do not know if I should start a new thread or not. But I would like to comment on the HTC connect feature. I recently bought a Google Chromecast audio to use as a headphone DAC / amplifier and an optical converter. As I have never used this before it was all new to me. What I was told to do was to download Google cast from the Play Store to setup my Chromecast audio. I have experienced multiple problems running Slacker Radio and NPR one radio and some other apps. The problem is in the control over the Chromecast audio from my phone. Typically what happens is the Chromecast audio is playing music directly from the internet and I am supposed to be able to control the selection of music from my phone. However, what happens is is that the music from the internet and what is displayed on my phone or tablet is completely out of sync so if I hit fast forward to the next song the music will still be playing on the Chromecast and then the app typically just sits there until I stop casting. Immediately as soon as I stop casting the audio will play on the phone or the tablet as it is counting down on the timer. Sometimes I will shut my phone off or my tablet and the audio will continue to play for the Chromecast very bizarre. I just setup my HTC 10 with a clean Flash and I am using ice ROM. However this time I decided to try the HTC connect feature and that so far has worked awesome. There is no lag or delay from any app I have tried so far where if I hit the volume up or down it goes up or down immediately on the Chromecast audio or if I hit the track to fast forward or rewind it does so immediately without delay!

I have tried several other casting apps and all of them seem to have the same problem particularly bad with Slacker Radio. If I just leave the app alone and don't touch anything it will continue to stream music but as soon as I want to switch a station or change the volume or fast forward to the next song There is significant lag and delay in doing so and sometimes it is not even possible I have to close out of the app completely and disconnect the Chromecast from playing. This is when I discovered that the Chromecast will continue to play audio from the internet unless I simply unplug it as there is no longer any control over it from any casting app that I have tried so far I even paid for airaudio. Additionally HTC connect will pick up the Chromecast audio immediately upon turning the app on and I simply launch Slacker Radio for example and it will immediately play Skip tracks and I can adjust the volume up and down and it responds immediately. 1 issues that I noticed was that there is a casting button located inside Slacker Radio and according to that I am not casting to the Chromecast also the volume is controllable from the volume keys on the side of the phone but when I cast there usually is a volume slider in the software and that is not there with HTC connect. Now the volume is not as loud as it can go using HTC connect but when I used Google Cast or airaudio the volume had 2 controls one was the volume on the side of the phone and the other was a volume slider inside the app itself or in this case slacker audio just click the cast button or NPR one radio for example. Also using regular Google Cast or airaudio there is significant delay between the audio and video while playing YouTube so much so that you would not want to watch YouTube and listen to the audio at the same time. When using HTC connect this delay is significantly reduced to make it usable however there is still a slight delay between audio and video where it is just out of sync but it is still watchable where as any other casting app I have tried it would not be watchable where you can listen to the audio and it would be in sync.

So again I do not know if this would be a good thread or if I should start a new thread but I really want to let everyone know that the HTC connect has really impressed me and I plan on using this in my car to extract Optical signal from the audio and I need to be able to control the apps and make them work correctly and when using HTC connect I can't even tell that it's wireless as it controls everything immediately.

What are everyone else's experiences have they had any problems with any casting apps?