Start stream to Chromecast Audio from Windows Desktop

[alcatrav]

Plan

Premium

Country

Australia

Device

Windows 10 PC running spotify V1.1.53.608. 

ChomeCast Audio running 1.42.172094  (updated 3.3.21)

My Question or Issue

I want to start a stream from the Windows desktop app to my Chromecast Audio. It does not appear in the "Devices Available" area. 

However, I can start the stream from an iPhone, and then the option appears to control the stream from the desktop app.

I know this was an issue for a long time, but there are a lot of posts indicating that this should now be possible. e.g.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Connecting-to-Chromecast-from-Windows-Desktop-Clien...

[Jeremy]

Hey there @alcatrav,

Thank you for your post here in the Community. We're happy to help.

Can you try to restart your router to see if the issue persist?

If that doesn't do the trick, can you perform a clean reinstall of the app? This will make sure there's no old cache files causing this.

Keep us posted. We're always one reply away.

Take care!