Guys, I bought a Chromecast Audio on Black Friday because all of you shitbirds were going on about how good they are.
The thing does not fucking work. Have I got a faulty one or is it just not compatible with iOS/Spotify? I am usually pretty good with technical stuff so if literally thousands of people own one of these things I find it hard to believe that I am the problem here.
Mine doesnāt always connect with Spotify through android (nexus which is a fucking Google product so should have no issues). Figuredbit was ok for the money but basically just cheap shit overall.
Itās temperamental at times and itās frustrating that even though you can control it once youāve connected, you canāt connect from a pc. Also I dislike the lavk of scrobbling. I know there are work arounds, but they are clunky. Over all though, I find it useful
I generally connect to my Chromecast devices through the Google Home app. This casts the whole device which I find works better than casting a single app (like Pandora or Spotify). You might try that instead.
And yes, all three that I have get blazinā hot all the time.
I have had a few sprinkled throughout the apartment for almost 2 years now, what Iāve found is that they work quite reliably. You must however have a strong wifi signal present for this, quote a bit stronger than you would expect. If your network is at anything less than 50% strength you can expect random dropouts of sound, sluggish response time to commands, and sometimes just outright refusal to cast content.
ordinary chromecasts are great - considered getting one of these audio ones when they were cheap recently but didnāt bother. glad i didnāt now really.
think weāre just gonna take it back. it only shows up on the Google Home app from time to time, itās right next to the router so could only get better internet if it was plugged in to the bloody thing, and it has shown up on my Spotify precisely once.
Are there any songs you canāt play through a Chromecast Audio?
I read an article that said that Radiohead have requested that their first album āPablo Honeyā be āremovedā from the Chromecast Audio.
I didnāt even realise this was possible!?
I had foolishly assumed that it just transmitted audio agnostically, but it seems that thereās no way of playing āCreepā through one unless you rename the track to something like āThe Radioheads - The Creepsā and add samples babies crying intermittently throughout to distort the audio fingerprint.
I understand that they donāt like that album, but this is ridiculous!