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.

[Gait]

@thndrkat

They do not respond to tweets (anymore).

Only @SpotifyDE did that: they told me to be patient and drink tea.

They don't even bother to change the bold print on top of this page (under consideration).

I think I finally have something else 'under consideration'.

[user-removed]

cwelch22 http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/132331-spotify-won-t-support-google-cast-prefers-to-further-develop-...

Spotify is lying to us with this 'under consideration' comment. According to the article:

Spotify won't support Google Cast, prefers to further develop Spotify Connect

Finally a clear answer, that's it then.

[eymey]

Let's all break from the boundaries of this topic and react on every article (like the one posted above from pocket-lint) like we react here!

[nemof]

oh for **bleep**s sake this is bloody ridiculous Spotify. 

[Bias]

**bleep** You Spotify !!! 

Spotify Connect is so bad... I use it on Amazon FireTV, sometimes it shows a song, but plays a different one ...

very often I can't find the fire tv (I have to restarte the whole box),

the streaming stucks,

the stable spotify client doesn't support SpotifyConnect so I have to use the BETA client and I have to push the stream via my android device to firetv because the client doesn't see the fireTV.... BAD JOB Spotify....

I am still trying other streaming services like google play music .....  

[thndrkat]

This gets better and better:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2rvk89/spotify_wont_be_supporting_google_cast_preferring/

Hey, Spotify, EVENTUALLY you'll lose more Premium customers to this issue than those that you might gain from your own end-to-end service, if you haven't already.

Avarice is your vice, Spotify.  What is especially ironic is most of us would gladly pay you, further feeding your voracious appetite for lucre.

[Morsh]

Enough is enough. Another premium subscription bites the dust...

[brzspotify]

Any day now I'll spend the effort to convert over to Google Music for good.  Get your act together.

[jbrumsey]

As soon as I can port my playlist over to Google Music I will be cancelling my Spotify account due to lack of Chromecast support.

[mcored]

http://lifehacker.com/portify-transfers-your-spotify-playlists-to-google-musi-512569025 might work 🙂 good luck!