Dilbert wrote: > I was wondering wouldn't it be cool if the Squeezebox Server could > behave as a ChromeCast receiver. So that a user could use the default > Google Music App (or Spotify app once they support Chromecast) and > choose to cast it to the Squeezebox Server. > Is there already a project out there working on this?
Actually there is already something like that. There is an Android App called "Cast to UPNP/DLNA for GMusic" (by the developer of BubbleUpnp). When you start Google Play Music out of this App it will provide you a button to Cast the Play Music "stream" to any UPNP/DLNA renderer in your network. As LMS contains (limited/tricky) such functionality since quite some time, all your Squeezeboxes will show up as possible targets for your Cast. Please refer to the following thread for some more information from people that got it working: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?99482-Stream-google-play-music For myself it basically works but I cannot manage to let the stream continue after the first song has finished. There is obviously some communication problem between the Cast app and LMS when a track change should be communicated. I am using LMS 7.8 nightly (don't know the exact date at the moment, but it's a pretty recent one) and tried it with several versions of the App on several Android devices (Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Galaxy Tab P1000, Galaxy Note) with several Android versions involved (4.1, 4.2.x, 4.4.x) and with nearly all iterations of the Cast App (it is updated pretty frequently) since end of December 2013. Nevertheless as you can see in the thread linked above there are people that got it working ;-) Cheers, Seb http://www.zeroed.net - Ruhrpott Thrash/Death http://www.last.fm/user/srasher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ srasher's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6209 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99234 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
