Hi all,
Plan
Premium
Device
Windows 10 PC connected over Lan.
My Question or Issue
I was looking for a way to cast directly from the Windows 10 Spotify app to my Chrome cast (I know all the workarounds. More in the end). I found this old forum post and I was wondering is this is still accurate?
8/29/19
Solved! Go to Solution.
Good news!
You can now find Chromecast in the connect "devices available" menu in the Spotify desktop app and browser web player. Now you can cast your music to Chromecast from the desktop app without having to use the iOS or Android app.
Make sure your Spotify desktop app is up to date
I also find this extremely frustrating as well as many many people.
I've had a friend recently have issues with Google Chomecasts across subnets, which lead me down a rabbit hole of how Chromecasts discover works. From my point its quite simple, it uses mDNS, which is a common discovery protocol.
I'll leave out the technical bits apart from the fact this lead me to investigate what the Windows Spotify application is doing to discover said Chromecast devices. Basically it doesn't, it only queries for "spotify-connect" using mDNS.
Additionally, I have looked at what other Windows applications do to query "googlecast" devices. So I can compare what Spotify is doing.
I'm not sure what is going on here, I read the same comments as you did regarding putting the blame onto Google, saying desktop apps aren't supported. This IMO does not sound correct, I've searched for Google stating this and find nothing, but I do find references to being able to play Videos from Windows PCs. Not just that but the discovery piece is common and already works within Spotify as they use it for Spotify Connect, they just don't query for googlecast. Now there might be some weird issue with playing after discovery, but I don't see any reason why Spotify took support away for this. It worked when I first got Spotify.
Good news!
You can now find Chromecast in the connect "devices available" menu in the Spotify desktop app and browser web player. Now you can cast your music to Chromecast from the desktop app without having to use the iOS or Android app.
Make sure your Spotify desktop app is up to date
This is great, it now works, thank you.
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