Android alternative to HiFi Cable
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2025 12:16 pm
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum. First I want to really thanks for your amazing apps, which I'm using every day since I discovered they can meet my needs.
I have just donated to VB Audio.
I want to ask about a possible feature in Android.
First I want to explain what I'm doing in my current installation, to then explain what I want to do with Android to expand the functionality of my home setup.
I'm a HiFi audio amateur, I mean, I like a lot to hear music with real high quality audio, and don't like mp3 or Bluetooth audio in general. Bluetooth is convenient for some cases, but at home, I like to always hear high quality audio.
I use a Windows 10 PC called XAUDIOSERVER to play music with a high quality audio card (M-Audio Delta 1010). But this is not my day-to-day PC. My day-to-day PC is another Windows 10 PC called TACENS. I like to play music in TACENS with my high quality audio card (over the network), and not having to open a remote desktop session to XAUDIOSERVER to listen to music. To solve this, I have tried several different approaches, such as Icecast2, Jack, and RTP streams, and none of them completely solved my problem, due to different issues.
Finally, I discovered that I can use HiFi Cable + VBAN Talkie + VBAN Receptor to solve this. I have installed HiFi Cable in TACENS, to send the audio output of TACENS to the HiFi Cable Output, which is captured by VBAN Talkie and sent over the local network to XAUDIOSERVER, which has VBAN Receptor installed, and plays my music nicely, realtime (really low latency), and with no crops or audio issues. With this setup, I'm completely satisfied.
The reason for this post, is that I want to try add an Android device connected to the local network via WiFi, to send audio to XAUDIOSERVER too, the same way TACENS sends audio to XAUDIOSERVER. I recently purchased VBAN Talkie for Android, and I forgot to check if what I wanted to do is possible. If it's not, there's no problem since it was also like a way of donating, which I wanted to too.
The thing is, I see that the Android VBAN Talkie lets me to send the microphone input to VBAN Receptor at XAUDIOSERVER, but I can't send the audio output of Android, as TACENS does.
Is there an Android application that does something similar to HiFi Cable, to be able to connect it to VBAN Talkie? If not, are there plans to develop something like this? Chatgpt said not, or at least not something easy or not requiring root or complicated setups. But I don't trust it, so I wanted to leave this message here.
I'd also like to ask, if I had two VBAN Talkie's (2 hosts, be it TACENS and my phone, or TACENS and another Windows 10 PC), Can Voicemeeter or Banana receive two simultaneous streams from VBAN Talkies? I have seen that VBAN Receptor can only handle one incoming stream.
Thanks again.
Greetings
Charles Free
I'm new to this forum. First I want to really thanks for your amazing apps, which I'm using every day since I discovered they can meet my needs.
I have just donated to VB Audio.
I want to ask about a possible feature in Android.
First I want to explain what I'm doing in my current installation, to then explain what I want to do with Android to expand the functionality of my home setup.
I'm a HiFi audio amateur, I mean, I like a lot to hear music with real high quality audio, and don't like mp3 or Bluetooth audio in general. Bluetooth is convenient for some cases, but at home, I like to always hear high quality audio.
I use a Windows 10 PC called XAUDIOSERVER to play music with a high quality audio card (M-Audio Delta 1010). But this is not my day-to-day PC. My day-to-day PC is another Windows 10 PC called TACENS. I like to play music in TACENS with my high quality audio card (over the network), and not having to open a remote desktop session to XAUDIOSERVER to listen to music. To solve this, I have tried several different approaches, such as Icecast2, Jack, and RTP streams, and none of them completely solved my problem, due to different issues.
Finally, I discovered that I can use HiFi Cable + VBAN Talkie + VBAN Receptor to solve this. I have installed HiFi Cable in TACENS, to send the audio output of TACENS to the HiFi Cable Output, which is captured by VBAN Talkie and sent over the local network to XAUDIOSERVER, which has VBAN Receptor installed, and plays my music nicely, realtime (really low latency), and with no crops or audio issues. With this setup, I'm completely satisfied.
The reason for this post, is that I want to try add an Android device connected to the local network via WiFi, to send audio to XAUDIOSERVER too, the same way TACENS sends audio to XAUDIOSERVER. I recently purchased VBAN Talkie for Android, and I forgot to check if what I wanted to do is possible. If it's not, there's no problem since it was also like a way of donating, which I wanted to too.
The thing is, I see that the Android VBAN Talkie lets me to send the microphone input to VBAN Receptor at XAUDIOSERVER, but I can't send the audio output of Android, as TACENS does.
Is there an Android application that does something similar to HiFi Cable, to be able to connect it to VBAN Talkie? If not, are there plans to develop something like this? Chatgpt said not, or at least not something easy or not requiring root or complicated setups. But I don't trust it, so I wanted to leave this message here.
I'd also like to ask, if I had two VBAN Talkie's (2 hosts, be it TACENS and my phone, or TACENS and another Windows 10 PC), Can Voicemeeter or Banana receive two simultaneous streams from VBAN Talkies? I have seen that VBAN Receptor can only handle one incoming stream.
Thanks again.
Greetings
Charles Free