music-caster
Music Caster is a modern music player with the ability to cast audio files, system audio, and URLs to Google Chromecasts, Google Home/Nest Minis, etc. (by elibroftw)
mkchromecast
Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices (by muammar)
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| music-caster | mkchromecast | |
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| 3 | 18 | |
| 139 | 2,169 | |
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| 8.5 | 9.0 | |
| 8 days ago | 23 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
music-caster
Posts with mentions or reviews of music-caster.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-02.
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Chromecast as virtual audiodevice in Windows
https://github.com/acidhax/chromecast-audio-stream https://github.com/SamDel/ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer Music player https://github.com/elibroftw/music-caster/ why use this when vlc can cast, also I havn't used google chrome in awhile but last time I did I was able to cast from the browser.
- I've compiled my previous lists of FOSS and pro-privacy projects that accept Monero for donations. Great way to show the strengths of Monero while supporting great projects and organizations!
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Best way to build a Windows-based GUI app with Python?
You can look at PySimpleGUI. It is by far the fastest way to create a GUI and I made my music player using it.
mkchromecast
Posts with mentions or reviews of mkchromecast.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-07.
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Stream to Chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash
You can forward a Chrome window to it via your web browser, or you can use something like https://mkchromecast.com/ to push local videos to it.
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Mirroring screen to Chromecast with sound
Wow... I haven't used a ChromeCast in about 6 years. Ok, have you installed MKChromecast? Last Time I used a ChromeCast I was on Ubuntu, and followed instructions here however I see on MKChromecast page they have an instructional video if you hit the cast button and goto bottom of page.
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how to cast screen to lg tv via WiFi without needing Chrome on Linux Fedora?
You can use VLC with the chromecast renderer (playback -> renderer) for that, I've also used https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast in the past.
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Stream from Ubuntu to Chromecast or Miracast
I need to stream a captured video input from my Ubuntu Kinetic to a smart TV or iPad sink via Chromecast/Miracast or whatever. Can this be done without VLC (not reliable)? Mkchromecast is not working in Kinetic yet, and GNOME Network Displays only casts physical monitors.
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Is it possible to play audio through Sonos speakers without using a HDMI connection?
I think this may help you in your search https://mkchromecast.com/
- Trying to switch to Firefox from Chrome..
- What software do you miss from Windows & macOS?
- Screencasting
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Found something that I didn't know about with my Home Max
I have this. I don't have a pie but you will have to Google your way through and try I guess.
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What would be the best way to fill a tiny house with excellent audio?
Video games won't work with >1 sec. delay, and it seems to be an issue with mkchromecast per https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast/issues/61 .
What are some alternatives?
When comparing music-caster and mkchromecast you can also consider the following projects:
ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer - Stream the sound of your desktop to your Chromecast Audio device
gnomecast - Chromecast local files from Linux - supports MKV, subtitles, 5.1 sound and 4K!
VLC-Scheduler - Basic automation & scheduling for VLC media player. [Currently not actively maintained].
open-sonos-controller - Lightweight sonos remote cotrol for linux
FreeTube - An Open Source YouTube app for privacy
raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Works™
kawaii-player - Multimedia player, media library manager and portable media server with PC-To-PC casting feature.
AirConnect - Use AirPlay to stream to UPnP/Sonos & Chromecast devices
docker-lirc-watcher - Listens to LIRC daemon and sends it to MQTT
Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps
spotifyd - A spotify daemon
music-caster vs ChromeCast-Desktop-Audio-Streamer
mkchromecast vs gnomecast
music-caster vs VLC-Scheduler
mkchromecast vs open-sonos-controller
music-caster vs FreeTube
mkchromecast vs raspotify
music-caster vs kawaii-player
mkchromecast vs AirConnect
music-caster vs gnomecast
mkchromecast vs docker-lirc-watcher
music-caster vs Eel
mkchromecast vs spotifyd