Streaming UltraMusic festival live to my Sonos via JamCast!

Ultramusic Festival in Miami is absolutely amazing - I was there a couple of years ago. If you're into dance music you should make the pilgrimage at some point.

My friend let me know they were streaming it live on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/umftv - Live Now button) so I had to look into it.

Firstly I needed to connect to StrongVPN as the streams are not available outside of the USA. I don't understand how in this day and age these restrictions are still in place.

Martin Soleveig

Watching the stream I was surprised to hear that is was pretty high quality. The sound engineers have done an amazing job mixing the music with the noise of the audience.

Of course my next thought was on how could I stream the audio from my computer from my Windows computer. Enter Jamcast. I've signed up for a 14 day trial which allows me to setup from my Windows Audio loopback adapter to be a Radio Station which I can add to the Sonos interface.

Click the image below to see it working in all it's glory :)

Sonos playing YouTube sound via JamCast

In JamCast I set the Capture Buffer Size on the Virtual Sound Card to be 1 second so there would not be a really noticeable delay from the stream and then added the Radio Station via Sonos Desktop Controller in the following format: http://192.168.178.53:58642/Media/audio/mpeg/CaptureStream

(192.168.178.53 - being the IP address of my Windows PC).

Awesome - Enjoying live streaming from around the world around the house. This makes Sonos worth the money :)