Spotify added standalone Chromecast support to desktop app, Web client The feature is working on Web client but not on the app, yet Spotify's Group Session beta allows users to stream music.

This brief guide will show you how to stream from the Windows and Mac versions of Spotify to your Chromecast – and offers some troubleshooting tips if you’re having difficulty getting it working.

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• To connect your Chromecast to Spotify, you can use the 'Devices' menu, which you can find on desktop or mobile.
• A phone or tablet is required to launch the Chromecast Spotify app. But when the Chromecast Spotify app is running the desktop app is able to control the Chromecast like a normal Spotify Connect device. Technical: This means: A) Chromecast advertises itself as a regular Spotify Connect device (but it uses the same 'spirc' communication protocol).
• Until recently, if you wished to play music on Spotify from your PC to your Chromecast device, you could only do so when using the Spotify web player. The service has now added the support for Chromecast devices to its Spotify desktop app on both Mac and Windows.

1. First, make sure your Chromecast and the computer running Spotify are on the same network. In Spotify, click the Devices Available button in the bottom-right corner of the window, right next to the Volume button.
2. Select your Chromecast from the list of devices. That’s it! If your Chromecast device isn’t listed, continue with step #3 below.
3. Even with your Chromecast on, and working with other Apps, for some reason it isn’t always picked up by the Windows and macOS versions of Spotify.
4. The most surefire way to get Spotify to ‘find’ your Chromecast is to grab your smartphone or tablet and briefly use it to connect to Chromecast. Open Spotify on your phone/tablet then locate and click the Devices Available link.
5. Select Chromecast from the list.
6. Now back on your computer, Spotify should find and recognize your Chromecast. You can resume control of Spotify here (and close Spotify on your phone/tablet).
7. If you have any tips to make Spotify find a nearby Chromecast without having to use a phone or tablet by all means leave a comment below!

After many, many years, you can now initiate a Chromecast stream from the Spotify app for desktop. You’ve long been able to control Chromecast streams that were initiated from the iOS and Android apps (via Spotify Connect), but now you can initiate those streams directly from your Windows or Mac desktop.

The news comes via Spotify Rock Star MattSuda — as they note, you’ll find the feature in desktop app version 1.1.38. In this version, you can simply use the usual “devices available” menu to see available Chromecast devices.

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Good news!

You can now find Chromecast in the connect “devices available” menu in the Spotify desktop app and browser web player. Now you can cast your music to Chromecast from the desktop app without having to use the iOS or Android app.

Make sure your Spotify desktop app is up to date

This feature is a long time coming. If you’re a regular Chromecast user — as I am — you’ll probably relate to the frustration of not being able to start a Chromecast stream from your desktop. In fact, this was one of the benefits of running the Spotify mobile app in Chrome OS desktop, and running the iOS version on an Apple Silicon Mac would have allowed this functionality as well.

Thankfully, it looks like we’ll all forever be able to start those Cast streams straight from the desktop — no workarounds required.

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