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"Google Cast is designed to give you more freedom while listening to music." I sense some irony in this statement.
by drdaeman 12y ago
"Google Cast is designed to give you more freedom while listening to music."
I sense some irony in this statement.
- makomk 12y agoIt almost makes AirPlay open by comparison. At least that lets you stream your local music collection rather than restricting you to approved cloud music services.
- bitskits 12y agoGoogle Play Music supports this. Upload your audio files; stream from anywhere. No subscription needed.
- ubercow 12y agoemphasis here being on local music collection. I don't want to have to upload a huge library of music just to stream it to my local network, where I already have the music on my hard drive.
- 9point6 12y agoThere are other apps that allow you to stream your local music if that's what you want to do (AllCast, BubbleUPnP, etc). But I've always wondered about this argument - Why wouldn't you put your local music library on Google music? It's free and means you've got access to your library everywhere. I could understand before they had matching that uploading 100+GB of music is probably not desirable, but it now even big libraries are fully uploaded in a day or so.
- BHSPitMonkey 12y agoIf you expose your local media over HTTP (doesn't even need to be world-accessible), a Chromecast on the same network can play it.
- djur 12y agoI've had good experiences with Plex for local media. And anything you can put in a Chrome tab you can cast to the device.
- danellis 12y ago> At least that lets you stream your local music collection What makes you assume that Google Cast wouldn't? You can stream your local video collection to a Chromecast. In fact, how is it restricted at all? If it works like a Chromecast does, the SDK is open and anyone can write receiver apps to run on it. How much more open do you need it to be?
- pinot 12y agoNot natively though, you have to use Plex or play the video in Chrome.