I am not aware of (native) support for Spotify Connect on the BV Horizon.

Are you using an app from the Google store for that?

Basicly there should be no difference there - since both fetch the stream directly to the tv, when it has been initialized.

MM

Hi,

Welcome to the forum!

Google Cast and Spotify Connect are different things with different purposes. Spotify Connect is a "client" (or a reciver) for a streaming service - Spotify  provides the content in an encoded format (Ogg Vorbis, at some bitrate) and the Spotify Connect application can decode that content. Google Cast is a transport mechanism that lets you route an audio stream to some device from some other device - but it's agnostic with respect to the encoding format.

So, if you are running Spotify at 320 kbps Ogg Vorbis on a device, and you compare that to using Google Cast to transport a 128 kbps MP3 version of the same song (say, from your hard drive), then Spotify will be "better". However, if you are using Google Cast to transport a 44.1 kHz, 16-bit uncompressed wav file instead, then the Google Cast stream will be "better". (But you can't run Spotify at 44.1/16 uncompressed...)

Hope this helps.

Cheers

- geoff

jans wrote:

Interesting information!

What quality would Spotify Connect on Chromecast be?

Am I right, when assuming, that your question is:

Will there be any difference if I play Spotify Premium (which is mandatory for the Connect version) via 'Connect' or via Chromecast?

In my view - basicly none...if you could send both to the Horizon.

Since you can not (not that I know) play via Spotify Connect to the BV Horizon, you would have to use two different receiving devices.

And that is where the trouble starts - you'll never know how two different devices handles the (same) stream!

Some day I'll try that out on my Essence (2nd gen), which has support for both.

And even there you can't be quite sure, that both are treated equal internally.

However, I doubt that I would hear any difference.

MM

Millemissen wrote:

Am I right, when assuming, that your question is:

Will there be any difference if I play Spotify Premium (which is mandatory for the Connect version) via 'Connect' or via Chromecast?

In my view - basicly none...if you could send both to the Horizon.

Since you can not (not that I know) play via Spotify Connect to the BV Horizon, you would have to use two different receiving devices.

And that is where the trouble starts - you'll never know how two different devices handles the (same) stream!

Some day I'll try that out on my Essence (2nd gen), which has support for both.

And even there you can't be quite sure, that both are treated equal internally.

However, I doubt that I would hear any difference.

MM

There is a tv - and there is a BV.

jans wrote:

Out of curiosity I would like to know if the Spotify streams via the V1 are different in quality than via the Chromecast/Spotify Connect. At first listening, the sound quite similar to me.

Jan

Hi Jan,

How are you able to compare?

The V1 has neither support for Spotify Connect nor for Chromecasting.

P.S. I use a Chromecast Audio dongle (setup via digital-out) on my V1 myself.

Quite handy - this way I am able to distribute the sound to other devices on my NL-network.

MM

MM . Sounds interesting; a dongle in the audio out on your V1 ?

No, Simonbeo ----- the digital-out of the Chromecast Audio dongle!

MM