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AirPlay like support #137

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
AirPlay for iOS is a great thing. But why not take this opportunity to take it? 
Even if you charge people for an app to play audio off of that would be 
completely fine. Why? Because the average consumer doesn't want to spend money 
on something they can only use with limited functionality. I got the Chromecast 
so I could play my purchased music from my device to my television. (or so I 
was hoping) Only to find out that it not possible. I don't want to have to hack 
my Chromecast to get it working or load up my music threw my computers webpage 
and the cast that webpage over to my Chromecast... That is an extreme amount of 
back break for each song. I understand, yes people will pirate movies and music 
and misuse the device. But what did Apple do when people put pirated music on 
iDevices? They did nothing, and everyone in the world and there grandma have 
iDevices and I'm positive that atleast 75% of them have pirated music and 
videos. Do I think its right that people do this? Heck no I don't! But I can 
almost guarantee that by adding the ability to just stream media to the 
chromecast more and more people would buy them. They would sell faster then 
anything, why? because they wouldn't be a paper weight to almost ever american. 
Me personally, I do live sound engineering for my school and I would use this 
for iTunes control or even VLC player if it supported it. I would connect to a 
i.p camera in the school and watch for music cues while I'm busy with something 
else. My point is that you limiting your product is only limiting your sales. 
Think about what you are doing to your pocket, they might be deep now but you 
can make them fatter.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Robert.h...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2014 at 6:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
If you are referring to the media items that are on your device and want to 
cast them to TV, then you can simply download an app to do that, for example 
Avia 
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videon.android.mediaplayer&hl
=en). Isn't that what you were asking for?

Original comment by anad...@google.com on 12 Feb 2014 at 6:55