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.

[arielwais]

Trying Deezer. Preety happy with it. Thanks.

[tenbones]

Sorry, this tok too long. I left Spotify for Deezer yesterday.

[Unifex4]

YES, Please add this feature!

Also a bonus would be to be able to stream, music IN SYNC (no not just the boy band!) to a number of android devices/computers in the same house on the same network for multi room audio!!!!!

[jackal]

1,800 comments, 7,600 kudos, and being the top-ranked idea "under consideration" and yet no movement forward on this pretty simple development? My faith in Spotify is being shaken.

[Joelkirstein]

Please add support for Chromecast! It would make Spotify even more awesome. Otherwise I'll definitely (and sadly after being a member for so long) be looking elsewhere for a service that supports it.

[chammer36]

It is possible to use chromecast with spotify using Android. You can now screencast your phone to your tv using the chromecast app. It's still in beta, but works pretty well for the most part. Keeping your android device near the chromecast does help as well. Step off the ledge people, google has a solution. Seeing how Spotify apparently doesn't give a **bleep**. Oh, and spotify connect is garbage.

[user-removed]

I left Spotify a few weeks ago for Deezer and I have never been happier. I was hanging on way too long hoping Spotify would implement chromecast. But why hang on? The suggestions Deezer gives me are done by people and not by a computer and they are spot on, while with Spotify I was going around in circles, getting the same music suggestions over and over. 

A lot of people in this thread say they would come back if Spotify would implement chromecast, I definitely won't !

[cwelch22]

Based on the comments in this article, looks like Spotify will never enable Chromecast. I believe that will make them the ONLY major music streaming service without Chromecast support.

http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/132331-spotify-won-t-support-google-cast-prefers-to-further-develop-...

[Gait]

Why does Spotify share its ideas with the press, and not with us, the users? #ignorant

[thndrkat]

@Gait

It's because they obviously don't give two **bleep**s about their users.  They're so concerned about "deliver(ing) the best connected home music experience" that they couldn't care less about satisfying the needs of their customers.

I hate to get vitriolic here, but these illiterate simpletons can't be bothered with us, their (former, in my case) paying customers.  Anyone else remember when Spotify was committed to providing service?  Apparently they're only concerned with servicing themselves now.