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How do I cast music from YT Music to Chromecast Audio? Google sells a music streaming service called YouTube Red. It works with their music streaming app "YT Music." You'd think that buying their streaming music hardware "Chromecast Audio" and YT Music would be able to easily stream to it. How can I get this to work?

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With the release on September 1, 2016, after wayyyy too long this was fixed. You can now cast as you normally would to a Chromecast A/V device.

YouTube Music Updated

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    Doesn't seem to be available in Germany unfortunately.
    – gartenriese
    Commented Oct 8, 2016 at 11:31
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    I still only see "visual" chromecasts available in my list when I attempt to cast YT Music items. So now I have Play Music and YT Music on my phone. Play Music shows all my audio devices (and actually had the song I wanted to hear). Not entirely sure "Red" is worth it at this point.
    – Chris
    Commented Dec 1, 2016 at 17:15
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    @Chris As an additional note to this, it only works if you pay for youtube music red service. So ridiculous. Sell you a product but limit what can connect to it.
    – Shawn
    Commented Sep 9, 2017 at 18:58
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    @Shawn thanks, yes my chromecasts have been since retired to the "dusty box in the basement" along with my Google Home and Android devices. I should have learned, and now continue on my path to buy quality not Google.
    – Chris
    Commented Sep 11, 2017 at 20:02
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    Cannot cast from desktop, still quite useless.
    – Peter Kionga-Kamau
    Commented Jan 9, 2019 at 20:45
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As of now, you can't. Google does not support integration of YT Music and Chromecast Audio.

For now, you'll have to use the Chromecast App sound-transcoding. You can find those instructions here, from your Android device:

  1. Connect your Android device to the same Wi-Fi network as your Chromecast Audio.
  2. Open the Google Cast app Chromecast cast icon.
  3. In the top left corner, tap the navigation drawer More menu icon.
  4. Tap the Cast Screen + Audio button.
  5. Select your Chromecast Audio.

This has a lot of caveats. The sound is inferior. The device that is doing the screencasting is communicating to Chromecast Audio directly (putting your hand over the antenna and killing the wifi throughput will cause skipping). And, you won't be able to answer a phone call.

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Another solution that is easy to start:

  1. Go to youtube.com/your_clip and click the normal Cast Button enter image description here
  2. In the dialog box Select source

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  1. Select Cast tab, and then the Audio Cast option will be available:

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Alternative solution:
Buy a little box named "HDMI audio extractor" that allows you to extract the audio signal from the HDMI source (Google Chromecast) and connect it to the AUX IN of a Sonos Play:5 or Sonos Connect.

By that your device thinks it's streaming to a TV and the cast button is shown as usual.

Pro:

  • you can control the output through multiple devices instead only the one casting through Google Home
  • it streams directly from the internet without passing your device

    Con:
  • it uses much more bandwidth because it streams the video as well (maybe you find an extractor that fakes the EDID information of the "display" to 480p so it's video quality is reduced as well)
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