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Starting a couple days ago whenever I try to connect my Spotify to my Chromecast (it always worked with no issues previously) when I tap on to select a device to which stream the content it shows me the name of my chromecast device but I can't select it and it says "the Spotify app is not installed". I tried restarting the Chromecast and uninstalling and installing again the app and yet still the same. What is going on?
Plan
Premium
Country
Argentina
Device
Samsung Galaxy A8 ( 2018 )
Operating System
Android
I got the same problem since I updated Spotify to version 8.5.82.894 (I updated on 30.11.2020). Now the Spotify App can not longer be reliably connected to the Google Cromecast. The Chromecast is shown in the App but "greyed out" (not selectable) with the message "Spotify not installed" (translated from original german message "Spotify nicht installiert"). Occasionally the hint disappears and then a connection is possible - as in the past half year that I used Spotify.
The standardized tips like reboot, reinstall etc. were, as usual, all not very helpful. The malfunction described above is identical on two Android devices (smartphone and tablet) from two different vendors. Using Spotify on a PC with Windows 10 the connection with the Chromecast works perfectly. This means that the error is probably quite clearly in the new Spotify App (8.5.82.894) for Android.
When will there be a patch that fixes this bug? Or is there any chance to return to the previous version of the App?
Addendum: I deinstalled newest Spotify version and installed previous version 8.5.81.991 from site https://spotify.de.uptodown.com/android/download/2769229
Now Spotify connects to Cromecast as usual. Hope that I didn't catch a virus from that site.
With the latest update to version 8.5.83.1075 the problem disappeared. Now cromecast connects well again.
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