How to use an Apple iPad or Android tablet as an audio interface?

Question

Android

Hello.
On my desktop computer, there are very noisy audio outputs under the mini Jack, in which, apparently, pickups from the motherboard itself are heard, which is why all its work is heard.
At the moment, there is no way to purchase a USB audio interface to deal with this scourge (I don’t have time to go to the store. Yes, laziness, I confess)
Despite this scourge, I would like to somehow cunningly deal with this problem using a portable device based on iOS or Android, preferably "over the air", but it is also possible through a wire. The idea is this: a so-called stream of audio from a computer to devices is created (preferably with a minimum delay) and now there is no extra noise and freedom of movement appears.
What can you advise? Is there a possibility to implement this?
Thanks in advance for all advice and replies.

Answer 1

soundwire

Answer 2

It is not entirely clear what solution is needed: hardware or software?
If hardware, then there are 3 options for connecting an i-device (however, an android is just as good):
1) minijack - no comments;
2) bluetooth - you just need to buy a bluetooth receiver, a normal one costs up to $ 50 on Amazon 3) usb-otg - I tested it on an iPad 3 with a proprietary Apple Camera Connection Kit connector, connecting an external DAC to
the adapter: the sound is output like from a computer
As for the software implementation, this is already the tenth thing.
You can play through the regular player flooded music. You can listen to the radio. You can start up a DLNA stream from the server, although I did not find any sane free clients for i-devices.
ps sorry, I didn't quite understand the problem. I solved the problem of outputting sound to an audio system from a tablet. In your case, then it is best of course to take any budget external usb DAC, so as not to have a significant delay.

Answer 3

Download / install / run VLC media player, select Media-> Streaming
and connect to the computer over the network from any device, any player.

Answer 4

I can recommend the excellent program Airfoil ( http://www.rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ ). Consists of two parts - server and client. Put the server on the computer (available for Windows and Mac), on the device - the client (there is, in my opinion, for all current platforms). All of this works great over Wi-Fi. They write that the sound is encoded in Apple Lossless. The program costs decent money ($30 is 100% worth it, but you can look at r...r.org) and it has a trial (works for 10 minutes, then restarts). Try it.