owntone-server VS NymphCast

There are a few dockers that seem to be able to do what you want. Some can stream local audio to airplay devices what might work with a bit of scripting for your white noise and others might work as a Chromecast to Airplay bridge https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect https://github.com/1activegeek/docker-airconnect

Check out OwnTone former daap, https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server it simply browses the dir, can play playlists but will do just folder(s) play too. As a bonus it can airplay/cast.

The thread here [Pi forum] is long (70+ pages so far) and the documentation is here [Github]

A possible solution, especially if you have something like a Raspberry Pi: Owntone

Check it out; https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server

Check out Owntone, it supports MPD. https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/

I set this up after stumbling on it - https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server and it solves a lot of my issues.

Are you looking for something like this?

A different altern@tive gor media streaming, dimilar to chromecast, is Nymphcast: https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast

Both clients and servers are available, it also works at a higher level.

I've been watching NymphCast for a while now, but I've never actually run it before.

I'm trying to cast any video from YouTube to a RP4 using the Chromecast (DIAL?) protocol. How do you do this? So far I've tried PiYouTube, RaspberryCast, PiCAST, PYCASTER, and NymphCast. All unsuccessfully.

No. You need more apps to support https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast/ you can DIY a home network with something like this. There used to be picast and some other android apps that allowed you to do it (by running android on a system that ran the videos) etc

Don't send me to pre-alpha software like Nymphcast