We are in the process of designing a new home, and I'm trying to get up to speed on the current state of the art in home automation technologies. Today, I'm working on wireless audio.
What I would like is to walk into a room and have my phone play audio through the speakers in that room. When I leave the room, I'd like the audio to follow me - playing in whatever room I happen to be in. Similarly, other family members should be able to play their music wherever they happen to be.
Is this a thing? Does this capability exist? If not, what's the next-best solution? I'd like the option to play the same thing throughout the house (Christmas music, etc.), but for the most part everybody wants to listen to what they want to listen to wherever they are - Manilow in the craft room, Katy Perry in the daughter's room, Metallica in the son's room, and blues wherever I may roam. Ideally this would be totally automated: If I start music on my phone in, say, the master bathroom, and then put the phone in my pocket, when I go to the study the music fades out in the bathroom and picks up again in the study when I sit down to read my email. I'd rather not have to do a lot of fiddling on the phone to select a zone or source or target speakers or whatever.