CasaTunes Multi Room Audio Overview

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A multi-room music system allows you to listen to music in one or more rooms in your home. A multi-room system typically includes several components, including a digital music streamer capable of playing one or more different streams at a time, a component to switch these streams to one or more rooms in the home, a converter component which converts the digital stream into a pre-amplified analog signal, and finally, an amplification component which amplifies your analog signal so that you can listen to the music through your room speakers.

Control of multi-room music systems has traditionally been accomplished using keypads, and more commonly now, using a browser, smartphone or tablet App.

CasaTunes music servers

Simple, reliable and fun

At CasaTunes our focus is on the design of our multi-room music servers. After all this is what customers will typically interact with every time they want to listen to their music. It has to be simple, reliable and, well, fun.

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With CasaTunes systems there is a stream available for each room. All the switching, volume control and equalization is performed digitally within the music server. To complete installation of a basic system, simply feed the pre-amplified outputs of the music server into a multi-channel amplifier, and then connect the amplified outputs to your speakers. You may use our powerful, yet highly energy-efficient multi-channel amplifiers, or chose your own.

While most customers use our native Apps for Apple and Android® smart phones and tablets, or our browser App to control their multi-room music systems, CasaTunes also offers optional keypads, providing quick and easy access to your music.

 CasaTunes multi-room CT-8 music system
CasaTunes multi-room CT-3 music system

Wired. Wireless.
Or both, wired and wireless.

The expandable multi-room
music system

CasaTunes is the ideal solution for homes with as few as 3 wired rooms, or as many as 24 rooms. If your home is not wired for speakers, you can use CasaTunes’ built-in wireless capability to add as many as 101 wireless speakers and devices, including AirPlay® speakers, AirPlay enabled AV Receivers, AppleTV® and Apple AirPort Express® devices.

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You can expand your existing wired system and add additional rooms by using a combination of both, wired and wireless speakers, and thanks to CasaTunes’ continuous synchronization, your wired and wireless speakers will be perfectly synchronized.

Let the music play

Experience music by the roomful

CasaTunes offers support for a growing collection of built-in music services, including Windows and iTunes disc based music, support for over 100,000 worldwide radio stations using SHOUTcast® and TuneIn®, and support for premium music services including Grooveshark®, last.fm®, and Spotify®.

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All CasaTunes multi-room music servers include disc storage for your music. The disc storage capacity varies by system, ranging from 320 GB or capacity for 60,000 compressed songs on our 3-room systems, and 1 TB or 200,000 compressed song capacity on our other systems.

Copying your existing music collection to the music server allows you to playback your music at the same quality2 the music was originally ripped to, and provides the benefit that your music is always available, even if your Internet connection isn’t!

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CasaTunes Air

CasaTunes Air

Play any iOS music App in any room in your home

But what truly differentiates CasaTunes is CasaTunes Air. With CasaTunes Air you can stream music from one or more iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad® devices, all at the same time, to any room or group of rooms in your home.

CasaTunes Air enables access to an unlimited number of music services and music apps available from the Apple App Store®, including iHeartRadio®, MOG®, NPR Music, Pandora®, Rhapsody®, Rdio®, Slacker®, Songza®, XMSirius® and many others. In other words, if you can play it on your phone, you can play it through CasaTunes.

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To listen to music from your iOS device, start your music App and press the AirPlay icon.
The AirPlay control displays all the CasaTunes rooms and room groups available. Select a room or room group, and it will turn on, and the music will start playing in the room or room group.

You can change the volume using the built-in volume control in the App, or using the volume buttons on the side of your iOS device.
The AirPlay icon turns blue to indicate that AirPlay is now active. When you disconnect your AirPlay, the room or room group will also turn off.

Best of all, you never had to use the CasaTunes App to listen to music from your iOS device.

Beautiful Apps

Have fun exploring your music

Most customers who invest in a multi-room system love listening to music. We also make it fun to explore and select music from your music collection and the services you subscribe to. You can browse and select your music using our native Apps for Android and Apple smart phones and tablets, our browser App, or even using our CasaTunes keypads.

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With CasaTunes, you can also search across one or more of your disc based music collections, Internet music services and even Internet radio services, searching by song title, album name or artist.

You can quickly change the song that is playing, delete songs from the playlist, change the order in which songs are played, randomly shuffle the playback of your songs, as well as configure your playlist to play once, repeat once or play continuously.

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CasaTunes multi-room smart investment

Smart investment

Low cost bundles, free upgrades for life

We understand that purchasing a multi-room music system is a significant investment. So, to protect your music server from becoming obsolete, CasaTunes offers free upgrades for the life of your system.

If you are ready to purchase your CasaTunes multi-room music system, make sure you check out our solution bundles. These bundles are designed to provide all the CasaTunes equipment you need for a 3, 8, 12, or 16 room system, and cost less than if you purchased all your CasaTunes equipment separately.
CasaTunes multi-room keypads

CasaTunes Keypads

The little keypad that can

You have probably heard of Thomas the tank engine and the little engine that can, well that is exactly how we think of our single-gang keypads, as the little keypad than can. The CasaTunes keypads are designed to be deceptively simple.

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Not only can you use the keypad to power on a room, change the volume, change the source for a room, move to the next or previous tracks, and display the meta-data for the current song that is playing, but if you press and hold the source button, a whole new set of functionality becomes available allowing you to browse and select music, configure your room settings, and even assign which room or room group this keypad controls.
CasaTunes multi-room CasaTunesSync

CasaTunesSync

CasaTuneSync is a free utility you install on your Windows PC or Mac machines to intelligently synchronize your iTunes music library with CasaTunes.

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As part of the synchronization process CasaTunesSync will copy any new songs it finds to your CasaTunes music server.

Once synchronized, you no longer need your iTunes machines to be turned on, since all the music is now available on the music server.
CasaTunes multi-room AV Integration

Integrating AV Receivers

If your home is like many homes, then it is likely your AV Receiver is not part of your whole house music system.

At CasaTunes we can leverage the equipment you already own by seamlessly integrating your AV Receivers, including those from Denon, Harman Kardon, Marantz, Onkyo/Integra, Pioneer and Yamaha, with our multi-room music system. Best of all, this integration is transparent to the customer.
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Support for other multi-room systems

Powered by CasaTunes

If you already own a multi-room system from Audio Authority, Channel Vision, Nuvo, Russound or SpeakerCraft, you are probably wishing your system had many of the same CasaTunes capabilities. Well here is some good news. Now you can!

CasaTunes offers a 3, 4 and 8 music streamer solution to power these multi-room systems.
CasaTunes multi-room Wake Up and Sleep

Wake up and sleep to music

Sweet dreams!

With CasaTunes you can schedule as many wakeup events as you like. You can configure CasaTunes to automatically play a specific playlist in a specific room at a specific time on certain days of the week, ramping up the volume gradually as you wake up, and automatically shutting off the music when you are done listening.

Similarly, you can schedule CasaTunes to turn the music off in a room after you gently fall asleep listening to your bed time music.
CasaTunes multi-room Room Groups

Room Groups

Control multiple rooms

A room group is a “virtual room” that represents a collection of rooms. When you control a room group, you control all rooms in the room group.

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For example, when you power a room group, it will power all the rooms that are part of the group, set the source to be the same for all rooms, and adjust the volume of each room appropriately. Room groups are useful for parties and implementing scenes.
CasaTunes multi-room CasaSetup

Simple to Setup

After wiring your CasaTunes based multi-room music system, you configure your music server using the CasaTunes web based utility, CasaSetup.

As the system has been pre-configured at the factory, the only required setup remaining is to associate the outputs of your CasaTunes multi-room music server with the names of your rooms, and to specify the account information for all the music services you want to use with CasaTunes.
CasaTunes multi-room Support

Support your customers remotely

With CasaTunes, installers can remotely access our multi-room music systems offering customers timely support and lower support costs. Now, it is no longer necessary to roll out a truck to the customer site to install new updates, make changes, or fix issues that may arise.

In addition, Installers can pro-actively manage customer sites by configuring CasaTunes to notify them about significant CasaTunes events.
CasaTunes multi-room Home Automation

CasaTunes and Home Automation

You can integrate CasaTunes with several third party home automation systems using our serial, serial-over-IP and robust web services interfaces. In fact, our browser, Android and Apple Apps all use these same web services.

CasaTunes, and its partners, currently offer support for AMX®, BitWise Controls®, and RTI® and will add support for Control4® and Crestron® in early Q1, 2013.

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1CasaTunes recommends up to 5 AirPlay devices when using the CasaTunes CT-3/S and up to 10 AirPlay devices for other systems.
2CasaTunes supports up to 192KHz/24 bits, except when streaming to AirPlay enabled devices. For AirPlay enabled devices CasaTunes uses CD (lossless) quality (44.1KHz/16 bit)

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