Newbie question: casting with DLNA or Chromecast

[Bastiaan]

I have all my music on my Android phone and tablet (a lot of 24bit). I know that I can cast this music with My Music/Wifi to the Ultra. But I find the Wiim Home app a bit limited, so I intend to also keep using Bubbleupnp and Mediamonkey.
When I start casting from Bubbleupnp/Mediamonkey I see 2 casting renderers: Wiim Ultra (DLNA?) and Wiim Ultra (Chromecast). When I cast to Wiim Ultra the screen of the Ultra displays the bitrate of the song that is played. When I cast to Wiim Ultra (Chromecast) I don't see the bitrate, but only the text 'cast from Bubbleupnp/Mediamonkey'.
Do you know if there is any other difference between these 2 casting renderers (e.g. quality?)

 

[Burnside]

I think the Ultra’s Chromecast (CastLite 2.0 I think it’s sometimes called) is restricted to 24/48 unlike earlier WiiMs and has been known to have stability issues. I’d stick with UPNP where you’ll get the full 24/192

 

[simbun]

The other big difference is that Chromecast isn't gapless, unlike UPnP.

Whist BubbleUPnP is a great UPnP control point, as an indexing solution Symfonium is in another league.

 

[Bastiaan]

Thanks for your replies! I have never heard of Symfonium, but I have just installed it on my phone and will give it a try. Up until now I preferred Mediamonkey because it has the possibility to distinguish between popular and classical music albums (my music collection is 50/50%).

 

[simbun]

I have never heard of Symfonium, but I have just installed it on my phone and will give it a try. Up until now I preferred Mediamonkey because it has the possibility to distinguish between popular and classical music albums (my music collection is 50/50%).

I've never tried it with classical so do let us know how you get on.

 

[Burnside]

Do you have an issue with continuing to use MediaMonkey and casting to your WiiM using the blue cast (UPNP) icon rather than the mono chromemast icon?

 

[Mr Ee]

I get 192 with chromecast to ultra.
But yes, stick with upnp.