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Chromecast support

Palmiter

October 19, 2023 22:34

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Can the team consider adding Chromecast support natively? My understanding is that this requires licensing software from Google. As of 2023 YouTube Music has 80 million subscribers globally, and Android has 70% market share globally. Based on those broad assumptions, it is possible that north of 50 million users have no native solution to stream from their preferred music platform to a Hifiberry device. 

Bluetooth is a solution, but the Hifiberry team itself has said "we don't think Bluetooth is really good for audio" https://support.hifiberry.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360014092677/comments/360003608418

Since the Chromecast Audio was discountinued in 2019 this has been a pain point among many in the community. I have one, but am not sure how long it will last. Thank you.

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  HiFiBerry team October 20, 2023 04:52

  If you mean an integration into HiFiBerryOS: There is no way to integrate it legally into an open source solution as there is no open source license. An that's exactly how Google wants it to be.
  BTW: the same is true for other streaming services, however, reverse-engineered solutions are available for these.

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  Laurent Camus April 14, 2024 08:05

  I agree that Chromecast support is a need for many users. Hopefully I can accomodate the hard way : I put a Chromecast device (*) in the input Jack of the DAC ADC and it works fine although you can't beat a native integration.

  (*) I have two different setup : I use a Chromecast audio in one (easier) and a Chromecast 3rd gen in the other (combined with an HDMI audio extractor between the Chromecast and the Hifiberry Jack input).