It'd be nice if I could turn my old Squeezebox Boom into a client for this thing.
Introducing Google Cast for audio
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#22> Google Cast Ready speakers come with Cast technology built-in, so you don’t have to buy any additional equipment. Except for, you know, the entirely new speaker(s). I love this idea, but I want a simple, small dongle, like the chromecast, that outputs audio only rather than HDMI. I already have a speaker/amp in my living room that has a mini-stereo in. I simply want a way to connect a chromecast to it.
I do this with a raspberry pi. I set up an AirPlay service on it, and added a tiny USB wifi dongle and put it in a nice white casing. Works great and cheaper than airport express that will do what you need also.
http://www.raywenderlich.com/44918/raspberry-pi-airplay-tuto...
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#23I own a Chromecast and like all about it except it's ability to play oyur own content. I understand why they forbid it, but for the same reasons I'm using it much mroe rarely than I would otherwise. Additionally this could have easily been an addition to the original Chromecast via a simple extractor.
There are actually many apps that allow you to play local content now. It was pretty bad for a while before they released the SDK though. The two I use are Videostream for Google Chrome, and BubbleUPnP for Android.
Have you seen which permissions those kind of apps require?
I don't want to allow these apps to read my history, share my contacts, or expose the current running apps just to cast some media ..
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#24Will we finally get gapless playback in the Chromecast's native music player? I've tried to use my Chromecast for music, but the gaps between tracks are just complete deal breakers for many albums. I had just assumed audio was not a priority for google.
Chromecast is just a web browser - so I imagine that's due to the client (which each service has their own, I think). Not sure what exactly they're doing for audio casting, but I imagine it's dependent on the service to implement properly
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#25I don't want to cast from the cloud . Just make the device able to receive any media from my LAN!! it's nice that the dongle can stream from the web, but it's way more useful to make the device aware of upnp/dlna devices over my local network. Because of this I've moved to raspberry which - exposes itself over the network as a upnp device - plays remote media in the main TV - acts as a nas, it can stream to kids' roo…
> I don't want to cast from the cloud.
It certainly helps battery life for your mobile device to step aside as soon as playback has started. When casting video it doesn't matter even if I turn the device off.
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#26Note the lack of spotify support. It's turning into a bit of a showdown between players like google cast and spotify connect. There will definitely be a small market in building devices which can serve as bridges between the standards.
It's disappointing that we are in the situation where we have several competing protocols for streaming audio - Google Cast, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, UPnP/DLNA.
As a society we are capable of making software and hardware that interoperate among manufacturers - email and HTTP are good examples. We could be a far more technologically advanced world if capitalism didn't encourage companies to create competing closed-source protocols that only benefit the companies themselves, to the detriment of everyone else.
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#27> Google Cast Ready speakers come with Cast technology built-in, so you don’t have to buy any additional equipment. Except for, you know, the entirely new speaker(s). I love this idea, but I want a simple, small dongle, like the chromecast, that outputs audio only rather than HDMI. I already have a speaker/amp in my living room that has a mini-stereo in. I simply want a way to connect a chromecast to it.
I use this HDMI audio extractor to turn a Chromecast into what you describe: http://www.amazon.com/J-Tech-Digital-Premium-Extractor-Conve...
Here's a slightly cheaper way to do the same thing: http://liliputing.com/2014/02/10-adapter-turns-chromecast-in...
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#28I don't like the way Google Cast always needs to connect to a service before playing any media. This could be a little bit annoying with audio. Its okay for me to wait a couple seconds to connect for watching a movie. But let's say you wanna switch from Google Music to Spotify, it's always gonna take some time.
And have you tried to use it without internet access? It completely refuse to work.
My ISP had some problem that let 200 families without service for a week. Although I have my local network fully working, the dongle refused to boot
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are actually many apps that allow you to play local content now. It was pretty bad for a while before they released the SDK though. The two I use are Videostream for Google Chrome, and BubbleUPnP for Android.
Have you seen which permissions those kind of apps require? I don't want to allow these apps to read my history, share my contacts, or expose the current running apps just to cast some media ..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostrea...
Which permissions do you take issue with? I don't see anything like what you claim.
Re: Introducing Google Cast for audio
#30Note the lack of spotify support. It's turning into a bit of a showdown between players like google cast and spotify connect. There will definitely be a small market in building devices which can serve as bridges between the standards.
It's disappointing that we are in the situation where we have several competing protocols for streaming audio - Google Cast, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, UPnP/DLNA. As a society we are capable of making software and hardware that interoperate among manufacturers - email and HTTP are good examples. We could be a far more technologically advanced world if capitalism didn't encourage companies to create competing closed-so…
This is how I feel every time there is an announcement like this.