Squeezelite support as cast endpoint

Feature requests
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Feature description:

With the excellent addition of PlexAmp in this latest update, it got me thinking about Squeezelite as a casting endpoint.

It’s a very good sounding endpoint in my experience and generally feel it sounds better than PlexAmp endpoint.

Problem solved:

It generally works better than Chromecast

Brought benefits:

A wider range of cast capabilities

Other application solutions:

 
LMS and Roon among other’s allow sending to remote endpoints
 

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I would use the feature. Squeezelite is also far simpler to set up and likely to implement than UPNP. Upnp is generally a mess of a “protocol”

At the end of the day, they do roughly the same thing but you don’t need to worry about 10000 different, non standard implementations, nor the split between upnp and open home

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They are not possible cast targets, they are clients to SqueezBox /Lyrion servers and controlled by it.

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Thanks for your response and wonderful app.
Other apps like Roon can send music to it, not just LMS

It would be a very good feature to have, but I understand that you cannot deliver everything requested

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Roon connect to the server too. I don’t think there’s an API for direct control or never found one.

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Yes Roon connects from the server, but was reverse engineered from memory for users coming across from Squeeze systems.

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So as said those devices are controlled from the server they are not simple cast targets with their own API.