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Porthole VS SoundWire

Compare Porthole VS SoundWire and see what are their differences

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Porthole logo Porthole

Play all audio from your Mac through multiple AirPlay speakers at the same time. iOS 11 and macOS 10. 13 High Sierra both add multi-room AirPlay support to the operating sytem, making Porthole redundant.

SoundWire logo SoundWire

SoundWire does audio mirroring (audio cast). You can use any music player on your PC or laptop like Spotify, YouTube, or iTunes and stream low-latency live sound over WiFi directly to your Android device.
  • Porthole Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-03
  • SoundWire Landing page
    Landing page //
    2021-10-30

Porthole videos

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Porthole Magic Review

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SoundWire videos

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Listen to wireless audio from your PC without wireless headphones - SoundWire

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Porthole and SoundWire)

Porthole

SoundWire

Audio
29 29%
Audio
71% 71
Music Streaming
16 16%
Music Streaming
84% 84
Audio & Music
26 26%
Audio & Music
74% 74
Tool
100 100%
Tool
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, SoundWire seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 7 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Porthole mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Porthole yet. Tracking of Porthole recommendations started around Mar 2021.

SoundWire mentions (7)

  • Help Setting up SoundWireServer on a Pi! All steps seem to work fine, then at the last step I get "No such file or directory", even though it's there! This is driving me crazy.
    Good point, but I did get the RPi version, straight from https://georgielabs.net/. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Stream my PC audio through my notebook speakers
    I see a lot of software that can stream a desktop audio through a phone, like Soundwire or Audiorelay, but I'm looking for something to use my notebook speakers instead and I can't seem to find one. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Are there better options for broadcasting my desktops audio?
    Still only does the audio, but soundwire works over your network so will work as far as wifi: https://georgielabs.net/ used it for months and other than the interrupting voice saying "free version" it was pretty stable and consistent. You can also tweak app settings to either reduce the latency or increase robustness to network jitter. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Can I use my phone as a bluetooth audio transmiter for my computer??
    I've been using SoundWire for this and it has worked well. https://georgielabs.net/. Source: about 2 years ago
  • Looking for a software to stream PC audio to a raspberry Pi
    Soundwire is the solution you're looking for https://georgielabs.net/. Source: about 2 years ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Porthole and SoundWire, you can also consider the following products

Airfoil - This software is from the Rogue Amoeba company, built to run on Mac and Windows platforms. It’s an audio-based software that allows the computers sound to play over a network device. Read more about Airfoil.

Last.fm - The world's largest online music service. Listen online, find out more about your favourite artists, and get music recommendations, only at Last.fm

AirPlay - AirPlay lets you stream music throughout your entire house — wirelessly.

Spotify - Map shows when two people play same song at same time

AudioRelay - Listen to your PC audio, use your phone as a mic or stream audio from your phone

StreamToMe - Huge range of supported formats.

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