Introducing Google Cast for audio

Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by Jack5500 on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:20PM (#8839845)

I own a Chromecast and like all about it except it's ability to play oyur own content. I understand why they forbid it, but for the same reasons I'm using it much mroe rarely than I would otherwise. Additionally this could have easily been an addition to the original Chromecast via a simple extractor.

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by Reebles on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:23PM (#8839864)

There are actually many apps that allow you to play local content now. It was pretty bad for a while before they released the SDK though.

The two I use are Videostream for Google Chrome, and BubbleUPnP for Android.

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by _lce0 on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:31PM (#8839923)

Have you seen which permissions those kind of apps require?

I don't want to allow these apps to read my history, share my contacts, or expose the current running apps just to cast some media ..

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by parfe on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:42PM (#8839988)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videostrea...

Which permissions do you take issue with? I don't see anything like what you claim.

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by Shog9 on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:47PM (#8840019)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.findsdk.ap...

I won't even run the Facebook or LinkedIn apps without locking them down first. Frankly, it's somewhat negligent that this isn't built into the Play Store installation UI.

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by sogen on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:14PM (#8840166)

create a disposable @gmail account

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by gsands on Monday January 05, 2015 @01:20PM (#8840197)

Check out the Chrome extension Videostream for Google Chromecast, link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/videostream-for-go...

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by Scaevolus on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:22PM (#8839857)

Plex works well with Chromecast to play your own media.

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by ismavis on Monday January 05, 2015 @12:26PM (#8839884)

There are lots of apps that cast your local content, AllCast for one.

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Re:Introducing Google Cast for audio by LAMike on Monday January 05, 2015 @02:17PM (#8840551)

https://github.com/xat/castnow let's you play local files from the command line

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