Album Art Not Displaying on Chromecast (Jellyfin)

Issue description:

Album art is not displayed when casting from a Pixel 8a to a Chromecast Ultra. Music plays fine but the spot where artwork should be is just a black square. I am using a custom domain name to connect, but I tried adding Jellyfin as a providor via the local IP address and found the same issue. I tried looking at the Symfonium logs myself and it almost looks like it’s trying to send a 0 x 0 pixel jpeg, but I’d appreciate some help!

Logs:

Upload description: casting from a pixel 8a to a chromecast ultra. The first song I try to play is megadeth

Additional information:

 
Not sure if you will be able to completely solve this since it might depend on my network setup. But I’d appreciate any help deciphering the logs, and pointing me in the right direction!
 

Reproduction steps:

 

 

Media provider:

Jellyfin

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Images are served from the phone cache. Chromecast needs to have access to the phone IP seen in the logs.

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ok thanks for the info, I’ll mess around with my firewall settings. Does this get communicated over port 1900?

I ended up fixing this! I have my chromecast on a different subnet and allowed it access to the jellyfin server, but not access to my phone. Adding a firewall rule solved the problem. The port was 43883, although looking back through my logs it seems to change sometimes? Maybe it cycles through a few different ports when it fails to make a connection enough times?

Anyway thanks for the tip. Posted my solution here in case anyone else has the same issue

The port change on each app start.

are the ports within a certain range? I’d like to make the firewall rule as specific as I can