For some reason, Spotify‘s desktop application did not allow sending the playback to devices with Google Cast technology , since the only option available so far was to stream the music to the Amazon Echo or to devices with AirPlay technology. Luckily, all of this has changed.
Spotify and Chromecast from Mac?
Something so simple and straightforward has been asking for supplications for a very long time. Thus we can see it in the official forums of Spotify, where the users asked for the possibility of sending the music to a Chromecast from their computer. And it was something that did not make much sense from the user side, since if the sound could be sent to a device with Google Cast from your phone or tablet, why couldn’t the same be done from a Mac and a computer?
Just take a look at the available device bar to see that something is not working correctly. And it is that in this panel all the Echo speakers compatible with the function appear immediately, but not a trace of Google Cast devices, such as a television with Android TV or the NVIDIA Shield .
Spotify 1.1.38 already allows it
In order to get your Chromecast or Google Cast devices to appear on the desktop version of Spotify for Mac and Windows, you only have to update the application to version 1.1.38 so that the list of devices appears updated. The problem is that currently the version that you can download from the web is still 1.1.37, so you will have to update the application from the configuration menu.
To do this, follow these steps:
- Enter your account settings , within the Spotify application.
- Go down and click on ” About Spotify “.
- A window will appear with the information of the application version, and you probably have an update available to download.
- Update the application and restart it at the time it tells you to.
Once you have updated the application to version 1.1.38 you will be able to see the Chromecast devices you have at home, so from now on you can send music to your TV with Android TV or any Chromecast device directly from your computer.
With this update, one of the most demanded requests by Apple desktop users is ended, since the streaming service did not offer this possibility of sending the audio for some strange reason.