philippe_44 wrote: > CastBridge allows you to play any LMS content to a Chromecast device (it > is in the 3rd party plugins or here > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104614-Announce-CastBridge-integrate-Chromecast-players-with-LMS-(squeeze2cast)). > What I've not implemented is the possbility to be a broker and play > content that are not managed by LMS to the CC device - that would not be > consistent with what LMS is.
Awesome - that's what I had in mind .. to let LMS simply play music stored on the server to a Chromecast as an alternative to a Squeezebox playback device. I'm getting a Chromecast Audio shortly and will be looking to test it out with your plugin. Regarding being a broker, seems to me that the real beauty of LMS was that it allowed you to integrate all your music playback through communication with a single server/interface. Being a broker for streaming services would fit in with that ethos IMO. The direct cloud-to-chromecast nature of Chromecast should make it ultimately simpler for LMS to support cloud streaming services (on genuine Chromecast hardware of course). The problem for me is that more and more streaming services have stopped running on Squeezebox hardware. Chromecast on the other hand has broad support for streaming and is likely to increase support in the future. Plus it seems that some hardware manufacturers are starting to support Chromecast protocol in their devices which would correspond to offering the functionality of SB Boom or SB Radio. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimfast's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=29669 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104383 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
