To be honest I haven't really messed around with Google music to know its capabilities, but maybe some has a straight answer for me.
My friend has apple TV and I am trying to see if I can do the same with Google music and chromecast.
I have a ton of music on my PC which is connected to the same network as my chromecast and my phone (when on WiFi). Is there a way from Google music I can access the music locally from my PC and play it on the device that my chromcast us plugged in to?
I do not want to have to upload all my music to the cloud for this to work. I just want to play it locally.
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michaelg1030 said:
To be honest I haven't really messed around with Google music to know its capabilities, but maybe some has a straight answer for me.
My friend has apple TV and I am trying to see if I can do the same with Google music and chromecast.
I have a ton of music on my PC which is connected to the same network as my chromecast and my phone (when on WiFi). Is there a way from Google music I can access the music locally from my PC and play it on the device that my chromcast us plugged in to?
I do not want to have to upload all my music to the cloud for this to work. I just want to play it locally.
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I don't believe there is a way to do that with Chromecast. However, if you have a smart TV there are other ways to link your PC to your TV over your Wifi connection.
But may I ask, why you wouldn't just upload your music? Sure it's a pain the ONE time you have to do it, but after that it's all gravy
B/c it seems like a pain. Lol, I guess maybe its worth doing. What's the limit on Google music?
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20,000 songs
Hopfully Chromecast will one day allow casting of locally stored media.
Until then you can cast music from your PC via Chrome browser.
RojasTKD said:
Hopfully Chromecast will one day allow casting of locally stored media.
Until then you can cast music from your PC via Chrome browser.
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I uploaded my music collection a long time ago. Google music is awesome because I can access my music from anywhere. If you are worried about not having internet access just hit the button that stores the music on your device. Download enough songs to hold you over until your back to internet service.
When I download new music on my computer, its instantly uploaded and available on my devices and I don't need a massive amount of storage on my device.
Google music works flawlessly with chromecast as well. Now I can sit outside on my patio and run the music from my phone.
And yes if I want to play something local through chromecast I just stream it through a chrome tab.
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Works great with Google music all access.
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How do you do this from a PC. The only way seems to be to cast the Google Music tab..
I took my old dell laptop installed ubuntu and plex server. changed the settings to always keep on. installed RealVNC so that I can login from my current laptop.
showbox app to watch movies by using external player .. selecting allcast/avia and streaming to TV
Avia app -> add media > showing my plex server and all my movies are right there
Chrome browser -> casting tab -> was able to watch even australian open live with it
got some play credit smh and purchased classics in google play movies and able to watch 1080p in TV
when got bored, youtube, vevo, play music to chromecast
life getting awesome!!!
New App (needs Avia)
This may or may not be new but I only stumbled on it today.
Like Showbox (worse UI although not unacceptable) BUT with UK Tv shows thrown in as well.
MovieDroid on the playstore
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lowlevel.moviedroid&hl=en_GB
You are welcomez.
:fingers-crossed:
Keep a look out for Tv Portal. Much like MovieDroid it's hit or miss on the mp4 format; however, I've peeped out their 2.0 version (which is in beta and has zero functionality). Once released, tv portal will rank up there, maybe even surpass, showbox (current epic app ever).
Try amazon app store or SlideMe Marketplace.
Please be careful about posting about services that violate copyright rules such as showbox and moviebox. If they are providing paid content for free, then you really shouldn't post on xda.
Thanks!
I directly sent both local media from my device and internet media to chromecast connected to WiFi AP in tethered mode from same device: a thing that was deemed impossible.
Procedure:
1) started WiFi tethering on main device (Galaxy Note 2, N7100, 4.1.2 firmware, N.E.A.K kernel);
2) long pressed chromecast button to reset and start configuration;
3) used a second android device, with chromecast application, to configure the chromecast dongle with main device WiFi cloud;
4) turned off second device;
5) started Bubbleupnp on main device;
6) in devices tab, selected chromecast as renderer and "local media server" as library;
7) then in library tab, chose a video, and believe it or not it started playing on chromecast yabbadabbadoo!
I also successfully casted music files, Google plus photos, dropbox files, and whatnot from Bubbleupnp.
Then I tried another app, mirror4cast, which mirrors the android device screen to chromecast, and you know, this worked perfectly too
Finally, I got arrogant and decided to try YouTube. The official app does not recognize the chromecast dongle in this setup, so instead of using it, I opened my browser (mobile Firefox) and loaded a web page with several embedded YouTube videos. To send them to the chromecast dongle, I used another third party application, Web Video Caster. Full success, in fact I am enjoying a Rolling Stones video while writing this
Now people please experiment and confirm my findings, to exclude I am hallucinating or I got an happily defective unit…
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mirror2cast? can't find an app in that name, can I get the link?
Sorry, it's mirror4cast
Mirror4cast
Download: https://market.android.com/details?id=org.libmirror4cast.app.free.trial
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I directly sent both local media from my device and internet media to chromecast connected to WiFi AP in tethered mode from same device: a thing that was deemed impossible.
Procedure:
1) started WiFi tethering on main device (Galaxy Note 2, N7100, 4.1.2 firmware, N.E.A.K kernel);
2) long pressed chromecast button to reset and start configuration;
3) used a second android device, with chromecast application, to configure the chromecast dongle with main device WiFi cloud;
4) turned off second device;
5) started Bubbleupnp on main device;
6) in devices tab, selected chromecast as renderer and "local media server" as library;
7) then in library tab, chose a video, and believe it or not it started playing on chromecast yabbadabbadoo!
I also successfully casted music files, Google plus photos, dropbox files, and whatnot from Bubbleupnp.
Then I tried another app, mirror4cast, which mirrors the android device screen to chromecast, and you know, this worked perfectly too
Finally, I got arrogant and decided to try YouTube. The official app does not recognize the chromecast dongle in this setup, so instead of using it, I opened my browser (mobile Firefox) and loaded a web page with several embedded YouTube videos. To send them to the chromecast dongle, I used another third party application, Web Video Caster. Full success, in fact I am enjoying a Rolling Stones video while writing this
Now people please experiment and confirm my findings, to exclude I am hallucinating or I got an happily defective unit…
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I will try this method...
Is this Different than just using AllCast. Doesn't AllCast stream directly?
player911 said:
Is this Different than just using AllCast. Doesn't AllCast stream directly?
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AllCast streams media directly from the device to Chromecast.
mirror4cast streams what's on the device's screen (including UI) to Chromecast.
"Normal" aka "optimized" streaming with Chromecast is not dependent on the controlling device (after the cast is started) - Chromecast itself goes and retrieves the video stream directly.
bhiga said:
AllCast streams media directly from the device to Chromecast.
mirror4cast streams what's on the device's screen (including UI) to Chromecast.
"Normal" aka "optimized" streaming with Chromecast is not dependent on the controlling device (after the cast is started) - Chromecast itself goes and retrieves the video stream directly.
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Yea I know how it normally works. So this just does screen mirroring vs local streaming as with AllCast.
Mirror4Cast = Mirroring phone screen content to TV
AllCast = Media Streaming content to TV
Nice
debernardis said:
I directly sent both local media from my device and internet media to chromecast connected to WiFi AP in tethered mode from same device: a thing that was deemed impossible.
Procedure:
1) started WiFi tethering on main device (Galaxy Note 2, N7100, 4.1.2 firmware, N.E.A.K kernel);
2) long pressed chromecast button to reset and start configuration;
3) used a second android device, with chromecast application, to configure the chromecast dongle with main device WiFi cloud;
4) turned off second device;
5) started Bubbleupnp on main device;
6) in devices tab, selected chromecast as renderer and "local media server" as library;
7) then in library tab, chose a video, and believe it or not it started playing on chromecast yabbadabbadoo!
I also successfully casted music files, Google plus photos, dropbox files, and whatnot from Bubbleupnp.
Then I tried another app, mirror4cast, which mirrors the android device screen to chromecast, and you know, this worked perfectly too
Finally, I got arrogant and decided to try YouTube. The official app does not recognize the chromecast dongle in this setup, so instead of using it, I opened my browser (mobile Firefox) and loaded a web page with several embedded YouTube videos. To send them to the chromecast dongle, I used another third party application, Web Video Caster. Full success, in fact I am enjoying a Rolling Stones video while writing this
Now people please experiment and confirm my findings, to exclude I am hallucinating or I got an happily defective unit…
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Is this dependent on the ROM and/or kernel you are using? Did the kernel developer do something special?
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Is this dependent on the ROM and/or kernel you are using? Did the kernel developer do something special?
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Might just be some built-in intelligent routing or bridging.
I am using the N.E.A.K. kernel for the Note 2. Stock firmware 4.1.2.
I don't know if this kernel has any special features which allow what I described.
Still hope that someone tries on his own to confirm my findings.
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debernardis said:
I directly sent both local media from my device and internet media to chromecast connected to WiFi AP in tethered mode from same device: a thing that was deemed impossible.
Procedure:
1) started WiFi tethering on main device (Galaxy Note 2, N7100, 4.1.2 firmware, N.E.A.K kernel);
2) long pressed chromecast button to reset and start configuration;
3) used a second android device, with chromecast application, to configure the chromecast dongle with main device WiFi cloud;
4) turned off second device;
5) started Bubbleupnp on main device;
6) in devices tab, selected chromecast as renderer and "local media server" as library;
7) then in library tab, chose a video, and believe it or not it started playing on chromecast yabbadabbadoo!
I also successfully casted music files, Google plus photos, dropbox files, and whatnot from Bubbleupnp.
Then I tried another app, mirror4cast, which mirrors the android device screen to chromecast, and you know, this worked perfectly too
Finally, I got arrogant and decided to try YouTube. The official app does not recognize the chromecast dongle in this setup, so instead of using it, I opened my browser (mobile Firefox) and loaded a web page with several embedded YouTube videos. To send them to the chromecast dongle, I used another third party application, Web Video Caster. Full success, in fact I am enjoying a Rolling Stones video while writing this
Now people please experiment and confirm my findings, to exclude I am hallucinating or I got an happily defective unit…
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Question in order to use bubbleupnp do you need to install any server application or software on the desktop which need to on when you want to use bubbleupnp or no as I am having problem casting trough that thanks
Of course the setting I described doesn't include any external desktop server , only phone and chromecast. This allows to show only chromecast - compatible media, not those that have to be converted on the fly.
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I'm replying to let you know that this method works perfectly. I just bought a Chromecast yesterday for work. I assumed before buying it that I could just stream directly from my phone to the Chromecast without a WiFi network, not realising what an issue this was. I spent about an hour fooling around with it and stumbled upon bubbleupnp by accident. I hadn't figured out the streaming from online part yet though so well done on that. If it's of any use to anyone I am doing this from a galaxy S5 using the stock ROM with no root so I don't think the OP's custom ROM or Kernel enable anything special. I tried most of the other DLNA and upnp apps and none worked as well for me as bubbleupnp did.
OP, I found bubble plays the MP4's just fine but I can't get AVI's working, have you figured out a way to transcoded on the fly without the need for a PC?
I can get some avi files to show, other not, and haven't investigated yet where is the difference. I don't think it's easy to transcode on the fly with the phone's processor, even if maybe with the most recent ones that might be feasible. We should look for something like the bubbleupnp server.
Maybe running it in a Linux session on the same phone?
I'll look into that.
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Apps can only stream video that the Chromecast supports naitively. I found a short list of other apps that work this way on my Nexus 5.
Real Player Cloud - free. Stream videos and music directly from device or the 3GB of online storage you get, also for free.
Tv Portal - donate for the Chromecast patch. Stream a pretty large list of recent TV and movies.
Vevo - free. Stream full concerts and music videos.
Google+ photos - free. Stream pictures and videos from your online backup.
Stevie - free. Facebook and Twitter as a stream.
Google Play Music - free app paid subscription (it should stream without a subscription if you buy music by the track or upload your own). Stream music from Google Servers.
I gave it a try and it worked great, but I thought, what will happen if my phone doesn't have a data signal? So I made a bogus APN so that I wouldn't have any signal and then turned on the hotspot and tried it. No luck, chomecast wants to verify that it is connected to the internet before you can cast anything to it. Can anyone find a way around this little problem?
Yes, I second that. When I tried to hook my Chromecast to the wifi ap *without* a second device (giving the Chromecast the sid of my WiFi ap and - only afterwards - starting WiFi tethering) it worked for a while than stopped complaining that it could not authenticate with Google Play Services.
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New mirror feature works over AP on my nexus 5!!!
Also mirror4cast mirrored on internal AP in tethering mode. Good for presentations on the go.
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Also mirror4cast mirrored on internal AP in tethering mode. Good for presentations on the go.
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I'm trying to have the chromecast connect to my phones wifi tether hotspot but in doing so I cannot enable a wifi connection to then connect to the chromecast. The chromecast app says it needs to turn wifi back on and thus tethering off. I'm using the MirrorEnabler for chromecast.
Is there any way to force data to be used for internet while my phones wifi is connected to a internetless router along with the chromecast? This is the closest ive got aside from the chromecast still needing some sort of validation from the internet to allow me to stream to it. I was able to test this locally and after setting up screencasting, I disconnected the router and was still able to stream the screen. I however lost the ability for my phone to get content as well.
A usually hidden chromecast wifi network also popped up on my phone once and I was able to directly connect to my chromecasts wifi and screencast that way. I haven't seen it since however.