Unable to stream local music to Chromecast Audio

[eriknjoo]

I synced a few tracks from my pc to my android spotify app as instructed, but when playing those songs in the app, the chromecast option is greyed out. As soon as I switch to a song that I stream from spotify, I can play it on chromecast.

Similarly, if my currently played music is cast to chromechast, when I switch to a local track, it gives me the error message "this content cannot be played on the current device."

Is this "normal"? Are the coders aware of this?

[Joe]

The connect hardware device streams music direct from the spotify servers and not from yur mobile. For this reason, it can't stream local files.

[eriknjoo]

Thanks for the reply. Will it never be a feature? I know a few apps that can stream local files via a UPNP/DLNA. It would be nice if Spotify had this, or if you could upload songs to your account like you can with Google Play.

[Joe]

I have no idea - spotify never makes its plans public but both DLNA and cloud storage seem pretty unlikely to me.

[eriknjoo]

Thanks. It would be good, though, if they came up with a solution that enables wifi streaming a local file.