Chromecast as display

[Brian_Benitez]

I love the new on-screen playback display on Chromecast! It’s great to see the track info, artist images, and track progress on the video screen.

What would be really cool is if you could use a Chromecast to see this display, no matter what audio device was actually selected for playback. I have a better quality signal path than the Chromecast, so I’ll always playback to that vs. the Chromecast - but I would love to be able to throw up the “Now Playing” UI on my TV anyway.

[Geoff_Coupe]

It would seem from this post that fulfilment of your request is in the pipeline:

Chromecast Sample Rates?

Yeah, you could. We are planning to add a way to use a Chromecast in a display-only capacity. Most of the work is done, but we still have to build the configuration management that lets you link a cast device to an arbitrary zone in a display-only capacity. The cast device doesn’t care if we play audio or not…we can just as easily launch it + have it do pure display of metadata while the audio plays elsewhere. For a lot of zones with a TV that happens to be in the room, that will be a much ni…

[Brian_Benitez]

Awesome, great to hear it’s already in the queue!