New AirMusic AirPlay WiFi DLNA Qplay Music Radio Receiver for iOS Android

For the price, this device works amazingly well. The Wi-Fi connection seems very stable to my dual band router, and the music streaming quality is very good.The only downside, is that when you start streaming audio from any device, there will be a delay. Therefore, you can't watch a video on a screen and listen to the audio on this device. The two will be out of sync.However, as an airplay source for music speakers located in my kitchen, this is a perfect solution.

Simply amazing. I've been waiting for an AIRPLAY dongle so I could play iTunes from my Windows based PC on my Home Theater System (a 6 year old DENON receiver). This did the trick perfectly. It also plays from two old IPod touch units I have AND also from my Android Phone... all wirelessly and with minimal set-up fuss. Just follow the instructions exactly and it just works!I use the optical connection between the unit and the receiver. It comes with an analog cable (but not an optical cable) if you don't have a digital optical input for your receiver. For power it comes with a micro USB cord BUT NOT a USB wall adapter. You must supply your own.Sound quality is exceptional. It also acts as a wireless bridge and can be a wi-fi extender if you place it well away from your wi-fi router. A real find. Highly recommended.

The unit I received had a very unreliable Wi-Fi connection. It had a lot of dropouts even when it was within ~15 feet of my Wi-Fi router. When the connection didn't drop it would occasionally garble the music and then freeze-up. I never got it to work more than ~1/2 hour at a time. I returned the unit to Amazon.There are other Wi-Fi streamers on Amazon that look like this unit but apparently feature newer internal electronics. My poor experience with this one (truly unusable) is not an indictment of all of the units that look like this!

Works great except it falls off the network and has to be reset EVERY time between use. Fall off network about ten minutes of idle time and needs to be reset.Loaded latest firmware but that did not fix the problem.

It works, probably very well in most environments.The interfaces is a little clunky and if you're not familiar with basic networking, it can be a bit confusing. It will create a new wireless access point (open by default - no password).The 1.0.x version of software can be unstable - prone to network disconnects requiring hard power down.In terms of streaming music with Apple (Iphone) - after downloading the software and finding the appropriate button to enable streaming, it works. Android, however, unless rooted, can't be used with this player - it's more of an android limitation with DLNA than android.I initially configured this in the "networking" closet, which has a sever, a a home theater amp, and a bit of sound distribution for the house. The result was very poor stability in terms of connection and range about the same as typical bluetooth, about 6-10 feet.I then experimented with connecting it to an external speaker in the living room (away from all that RF) and it worked much better... So now we've got to find a way to keep it out of the network closet, but provide it's audio output into the home theater receiver, which will require some additional cabling and non-traditional wiring...I'd buy it again for the iphone, within the limitations of a relatively "clean" RF environment. I wouldn't buy it for Android.For latest firmware, I found it here: http://www.geekloves.com/wp-content/uploads/NW11-1.1.01-A21(A.01).rar

*2nd edit: I've located firmware and upgraded my airmusic to version 1.1.01-A21(A.01). Changelog is:BUG fixes the following:(1) after solving two MAC is ff, computer / phone to see the MAC will be fe the bug;(2) to save the network settings to re-upgrade is not lost;(3) optimization AIRPLAY DLNA and audio services;(4) Support USB sound card to play;(5) support for DMS;(6) Support OTA upgrade;(7) amended with APP language inconsistent BUG ;(8) Join the forum home page address in the WEB;(9) to optimize memory consumption.Firmware is posted here. The site is not available in English so you will more than likely need to translate.http://bbs.dmsys.com/FW/list-1.aspxAs is always the case, firmware upgrades can result in a bricked device. You have been warned. :-)*Edit: I'm bumping this from three to four stars with all the great extra tools in firmware.It works as advertised. I bought this for my main stereo as an Airplay adapter (DLNA is a rotten standard for audio, it is much too laggy in my opinion). One of the undocumented features of this box is telnet access. These are the open ports:eherr@singularity:~$ nmap airmusicStarting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2015-01-27 11:03 CSTNmap scan report for airmusic (10.10.10.8)Host is up (0.016s latency).rDNS record for 10.10.10.8: airmusic.nebula.lanNot shown: 996 closed portsPORT STATE SERVICE23/tcp open telnet53/tcp open domain80/tcp open http5002/tcp open rfeUsername/password for telnet are root/ifconfig (yeah -- serious WTF regarding password). It is running Linux and uses the Open Source 'shairport' Airplay implementation. Kernel info --root@airmusic:~# uname -aLinux airmusic 2.6.39.4 #2 Tue Jul 29 14:04:29 CST 2014 mips GNU/LinuxSound is rather nice and, unlike some other devices I have tried, analog output levels are more than sufficient.The only thing that prevents me from giving this device a better rating is that, from time to time, it refuses connections. Digging a little deeper (using telnet session), I find that the 'shairport' (Airplay) process dies. One either has to cycle power or restart process via init script. This is what gets dumped to terminal:root@airmusic:~# /etc/init.d/shairport restartkillall: newshair: no process killedBound to address 0.0.0.0Listening for connections.32423Established under name '6A24C0C2DD1D@airmusic'killall: nplay: no process killedkillall: nplay: no process killedIf there was updated firmware available to correct this problem, I would give this box a much better rating. As it stands, I have not been able to locate updated firmware. For the most part though, I am satisfied with my purchase.Interestingly, /proc/cpuinfo reports this as a TP-LINK TL-WR703N v1 wireless router. I guess this is a clever reuse of an existing board. I would have thought they would have exposed the wired ethernet port. Boo.root@airmusic:~# cat /proc/cpuinfosystem type : Atheros AR9330 rev 1machine : TP-LINK TL-WR703N v1processor : 0cpu model : MIPS 24Kc V7.4BogoMIPS : 265.42wait instruction : yesmicrosecond timers : yestlb_entries : 16extra interrupt vector : yeshardware watchpoint : yes, count: 4, address/irw mask: [0x0000, 0x08a0, 0x0210, 0x03c0]ASEs implemented : mips16shadow register sets : 1kscratch registers : 0core : 0VCED exceptions : not availableVCEI exceptions : not available*Edit: iperf is installed! iperf is an awesome test tool to look at network throughput.root@airmusic:~# iperf -c 10.10.10.3 -r------------------------------------------------------------Client connecting to 10.10.10.3, TCP port 5001TCP window size: 16.0 KByte (default)------------------------------------------------------------[ 3] local 10.10.10.8 port 60808 connected with 10.10.10.3 port 5001[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 64.3 MBytes 53.7 Mbits/sec------------------------------------------------------------Server listening on TCP port 5001TCP window size: 85.3 KByte (default)------------------------------------------------------------[ 4] local 10.10.10.8 port 5001 connected with 10.10.10.3 port 33580[ 4] 0.0-10.1 sec 52.4 MBytes 43.7 Mbits/sec