Add support for Google ChromeCast

[Arjen82]

Will you be adding support to the ChromeCast that Google announced today? Would be great to be able to easily stream music from all my devices to my receiver and tv.

Please see the Api information here: https://developers.google.com/cast/

Update: implementing ChromeCast is superior to using the Chrome browser plugin to move a tab with the Spotify web interface to your TV for multiple reasons. Most importantly:

 - You can stream higher fidelity

 - You can stream from every device, not only from a computer/laptop

 - You can control from multiple devices (so if I leave the room my wife can control Spotify with her phone)

If implemented correctly this would match the functionality of Sonos for a much lower price.

Update February 4th 2014: Okay, so Google has released the SDK now. Please start working on the functionality or at the very minimum give an update to the status...

Update February 19th 2014: 2,000 kudos, hundreds of replies (with more than a handful of cancelations). Apparently Spotify Germany has confirmed Chromecast support is coming. An update would be nice

Update March 24th 2014: 2,500 kudos and still no update. Cancelled my subscription today. Sorry, but if you don't listen to your paying customers we will have to speak with our wallets.

[dommye]

any news about this new feature?

Thank you.

[Lazarus99]

I think you guys should really hurry up with the DLNA/Chormecast support! You are becomming irellevant for those users that uses new hardware with so-called wireless solutions.

Regards,

A fading Spotify fan.

[sirspoon]

I've been messing about with internet radios, raspberry pi's connected to speakers, anything to get a cheap but tablet/phone controlled  wifi sound system but it seems far harder than it really should be in this day and age. Please add chromecast support as soon as possible... currently paying for both Spotify and google music whilst working out which one to keep but that won't last much longer.

[mlm5em]

Also, please add support to the iPhone app.  The great thing about Chromecast is it is cross platform (cough walled garden apple cough) and a lot of my family members have iPhones.

Thank you,

[AndrewLandis]

Love your product, but the sooner the better on this 🙂

Just got a chromecast for christmas and would love to implement the things I already use instead of finding new/sub-par apps!

[AgentRoo]

Will be canceling Premium soon without this feature...

[Horseface]

Its going to be really hard to motivate a subscription renewal if this doesnt get implemented in the new future.

[AbstractLabs]

You guys really need to get on top of the technology curve I love spotify I listen on my phone my laptop and desktop. Right now in order to listen to spotify on my television which by the way is also connected to my amplifier I have to connect to my headphone jack of my phone. Eventhough I have an Xbox (DLNA) and a chromecast, I would really rather avoid setting up yet another pc simply to use spotify when I have 2 perfectly capable devices attached already. Please support this feature or some method of streaming DLNA to the xbox. Your web based app does not work on XBOX 360 in internet explorer. There is virtually no support here for android in this area while apple is able to take advantage of builtin functionality. If Netflix which I am sure has a more complicated licensing model can support all three platforms why is it you wont make the investment? I use your service because it's better and more ubiquitous than iTunes or Microsoft but the lack of support diminishes your value to me. Your boutique strategy of integrating with hardware manufacturers is not adding any value to the majority of us paying customers. You are leaving a huge void where we enjoy music the most, our living room entertainment centers.

If you dont have the resources to work on the project outsource it seems like every good idea I come across lately on this community has a not right now response. Who's agenda are you serving I am a premium customer where is it exactly that I get my voice heard.

[bbeckford]

I think you need to give the community an updated statement re your plans on this Spotify, so many customers are posting in this thread and you're staying so quiet on the subject - "Not right now" is not good enough.

The second Chromecast is launched in the UK and Spotify doesn't support it you are going to lose the 4 subscriptions in my household to Google Play All Access, you just don't have a big enough competitive advantage over it.

[user-removed]

I sent an email to support to get status, and this is what they said:

Hey,
Thank you for getting back.
I have contacted with our developers team, they said that 'There are no plans right now' for Chromecast:(

This means that they have not even started on the development.