Recommended software to stream music from win10 pc to airplay enabled speaker

[djdube525]

I happen to have a wireless speaker (JBL L8) in the living room that we primarily use for background music for cooking, entertaining, etc...
Primarily we stream via iTunes to the speaker (speaker seamlessly syncs to iTunes).

The problem is I would like to be able to also stream from a non iTunes application (Spotify, Foobar, etc)... I'm struggling getting the speaker working over DLNA... I started thinking about picking up an airplay server SW for Win10.

Was wondering if anyone has had experience with either:

• TuneBlade $10
• Airfoil $30
• Airserver $15

Any other suggestions?

[richidoo]

That looks like a cool little speaker! https://in.jbl.com/AUTHENTIC+L8.html

Sounds like the speaker is not on your wifi network, or maybe only loosely attached. Can you see it in your router DHCP clients?

Did you try loading the JBL control app MusicFlow?

foobar is a DNLA server, so you could test DNLA with that.

Also this:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/help-needed-how-to-play-music-on-JBL-speaker-wifi/td-p/1012032
Spotify Connect is awesome!

[djdube525]

That looks like a cool little speaker! https://in.jbl.com/AUTHENTIC+L8.html

Sounds like the speaker is not on your wifi network, or maybe only loosely attached. Can you see it in your router DHCP clients?

It is connected otherwise aitplay wouldn't work via iTunes... and I also see it as a wireless client on the network.

Did you try loading the JBL control app MusicFlow?

Well... that would be too logical.  I'll try that tonight

foobar is a DNLA server, so you could test DNLA with that.

Also this:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/help-needed-how-to-play-music-on-JBL-speaker-wifi/td-p/1012032
Spotify Connect is awesome!

Will play with both of those as well.

[richidoo]

Oh, I thought you could do airplay on Blutooth too.
Good luck!

[TomS]

I've used Airfoil for several years and been very happy with it. They are active with new releases to address all the changes Apple makes just for fun.

[djdube525]

I've used Airfoil for several years and been very happy with it. They are active with new releases to address all the changes Apple makes just for fun.

Thanks Tom... I was looking at the thread above re: flashing the speaker firmware and numerous people talking about airplay, and other functions being broken afterwards and a few were lucky enough to get an old firmware from support, several factory resets later... Starts to enter the area where  $10-$20 is money worth spent to avoid the aggravation.

[djdube525]

Oh, I thought you could do airplay on Blutooth too.
Good luck!

My bad... you can stream to the speaker over bluetooth as well... and that does work.

[djdube525]

Have just played a little...

(Edit) With TuneBlade, by defaultyour initial option is to only be able to play on airplay enabled devices. Once you start streaming to your speakers, audio "shifts" from your PC to the destination speakers (that's a bit annoying). If you want to play on both your PC and your airplay enabled speakers, you need to install TuneAero on your PC so that it becomes an airplay enabled endpoint.

Airflow seems to have much more control, allowing you to send concurrently to your PC and airplay enabled speakers, select source, etc etc.. There appears to be much more control afforded to the user. I still need to give airserver a shot to compare....