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.

[PieterDeBruijn]

Spotify needs to go with this, or they will lag behind. This is a really big missing feature, that is really annoying me as Premium subscriber. They should listen to their customers.

[gpavico]

Based from the article, I've canceled my account now!

[Herwin]

Spotify gaat nooit Chromecast ondersteunen. Zie ook: http://www.nu.nl/gadgets/3970053/spotify-niet-van-plan-google-cast-ondersteunen.html 
Ik ben onlangs overgestapt naar Deezer en dat bevalt me erg goed. Mis Spotify totaal niet. Deezer heeft perfecte ondersteuning van Chromecast. En als je een mobielabonnement van T-Mobile hebt is Deezer ook nog veel goedkoper dan Spotify.

Stap over!!! 

[Diakonos]

I cancelled my premium account last week. It was much too frustrating to be waiting for a company to implement a very simple function without giving a serious answer as to why it cannot offer the same feature that its competitors offer. Is it because you want to give privileged access to special TV apps? Well guess what: I have an LG smart TV with the Spotify app and it absolutely blows. You may be keeping faith with your partners but you are losing faith with your customers. 

[fserb]

Just cancelled my subscription over this too.

I was ok with the "why are they taking 1.5 years to develop this".

I'm not ok with "we were actually lying that we were working on it, because we have our own solution and we are not doing this".

[nemof]

r/android on reddit now has a nearly thousand comment thread about this http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2rvk89/spotify_wont_be_supporting_google_cast_preferring/

Considering that his is the highest rated idea in this forums, I think spotify needs to justify its position and at least dedicate a full blogpost to this topic. You are failing your subscribers in a huge way.

[parkerlo]

Please add Chromecast support.

[user-removed]

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@Arjen82 wrote:

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.

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.

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Canceled today after having premium since it became available.

I actually have Spotify Connect on my receiver but it isn't at all as good as Spotify says it is. Would much prefer Streaming to Chromecast.

[plaxdan]

+1 this is the only thing stopping me from paying for Spotify.

[cking]

On the chromecast app they added mirror you mobile screen. thats what i use with spotify app, on my mobile

hope that helps you guys