Feature description:
Implementing the open source FCast API into Symfonium would ideally give us an option to chose between using either Google Cast or FCast to play music to all of our devices.
It’d be perfect if Symfonium had an option to chose what the cast icon does. Like in settings being able to choose which api the cast icon uses, then being able to seamlessly play streams to any FCast Receivers on the network.
Problem solved:
It solves not being able to cast to Windows, Linux, and even other android media receivers without Googles 100+ other invasive services installed and running.
As I’m sure you know there’s a lot of us who want to completely drop Google and their proprietary spyware, but giving up the convenience of Cast can be a deal breaker for the average user.
GrayJay has FCast support and it works great! It’s the best full featured YouTube replacement I’ve found to date, and now we just need the best music app (which is clearly Symfonium) to support open casting too.
Over the years there’s been many attempts to either reverse engineer or modify the Google Cast API, but Google being Google have repeatedly shafted any devs making headroom to give end users what they want… now there’s a polished open source alternative that they can’t shut down!
Brought benefits:
Absolute freedom to play music to any device! It’s a huge part of how people listen to music, and being able to turn virtually any device into a receiver is how casting should be.
Other application solutions:
GrayJay is the main one I’ve found with FCast specifically.
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