Google cans the Chromecast Audio

Re:Google cans the Chromecast Audio by ucaetano on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:46PM (#18887459)

> For example, I can't cast YouTube to it, because it doesn't support video. But what if want everyone in the room to hear what I'm playing and the video is irrelevant?

I'd imagine that's for the same reason why you can't "listen" to a video on mobile with the app in the background: it would qualify as a music stream, and YT doesn't have the rights to stream music in an ad-based model.

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Re:Google cans the Chromecast Audio by tempestn on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:51PM (#18887505)

You actually can do that if you pay for YouTube Premium.

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Re:Google cans the Chromecast Audio by ucaetano on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:39PM (#18887883)

Exactly, they probably don't have a license for ad-based audio streaming, only subscription-based.

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Re:Google cans the Chromecast Audio by tempestn on Friday January 11, 2019 @05:56PM (#18888003)

Could be, or they're just using it to differentiate the offerings.

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Re:Google cans the Chromecast Audio by flatiron on Saturday January 12, 2019 @12:15PM (#18892126)

You can cast YouTube to it via vlc or what I usually do is YouTube-dL and plex. But yeah. Not directly.

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