Streaming into the good room

Customers in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium will be pleased: home theater specialist Onkyo has announced that it is possible over the network-compatible AV receiver, direct access to the popular music streaming service Spotify.

Good times for European audio gourmands: mid-November Spotify has launched his musical all-you-can-hear-buffet in the Switzerland, Austria and Belgium. Now, Onkyo has announced that from TX-NR609 and later library allows access to the approximately 15 million songs in Spotifys models. The songs are (assuming premium account) streamed in high quality (320kBit / s). The use of Spotify is done via the remote control of the receiver on the connected TV screen. It can be to use playlists, album cover are represented, and there is a search function. Alternatively, you can use the ONKYO's own Android app to control. An Android Smartphone in the local WLAN is to the control center of own HiFi Equimpents. Spotify may be used free of charge: up to ten hours streaming per month are then says, with a single title may be played no more than five times. In this case is funded by commercials. In addition, there are also fee-based accounts from CHF 6.45 per month, advertising or the previously mentioned limitations fall away then. It should still be mentioned that the access to Spotify only through a Facebook login is possible. For some music listener one reason his Spotify like that definitely out to let