Whats my next move when my chromecast audio dies? I love that thing
this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2024
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Ottercast, but you gotta build it yourself!
Pi zero + squeezebox + usb sound card
AudioCast - exactly the same, but different producer. I have both.
Did y'all even click the article?
It will be rebranded, basically, to become the Google TV streamer. The tech is not going anywhere.
"In place of the Chromecast, the company will offer the newly announced $99.99 Google TV Streamer, which launches on September 24th."
$100 though ... a Chromecast used to be like $35.
Rebrand to increase price by an ungodly amount to circumvent massive backlash ✅
It's a different device. Already, the existing google tv workflow is different than the chromecast, which was phone control first. Now, it brings up an app which favors navigation with the remote. If I want a set top box, I'll put a kodi box in...I wanted a dumb dongle which could be controlled from a phone. It's fundamentally a different product.
My hope is that casting decouples as a concept from being a google protocol. Even though Amazon is backing it now, I hope MatterCast can become an open casting standard. My vision is having MatterCast be an installable add-on to Kodi, and then an ultra-light image can be made for super low-end devices supporting audio and video (or both).
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.... Does this mean that the chromecast with google tv that is pictured, and that i just bought, will soon stop working?
What's "soon"? Should be good for a couple of years
Gone the Google way. One more for the Google Graveyard.
My 10-year-old Nexus (original Android TV that is a direct ancestor of the Google TV device you're talking about) still works.
And? Do they plan to put all the software open source so that the millions of hardware they sold would not go to waste in some years? We should force them to by law.
You only read the headline, didnt you?
That's what clickbait aims to achieve. Just make people rage. People need to learn to read the article before raging.
Well, the article says: "Google says it will continue to push software and security updates to its newer devices without specifying which ones.".
So only newer devices (and we don't know which ones), and if you are a bit familiar with technology, you would very well know that they will just quit updating the software anyways after some time as they stopped making the whole Chromecast line.
That's still a lot of devices that would be perfectly usable and will eventually go to waste. So imo my remark about the fact that we should have laws forcing manufacturers to make their software open source as soon as they're no longer updated is still valid!
I think it's perfectly reasonable to not expect a company to perpetually support a sub-$100 device. Especially if said device has been around for 5+ years at least.
I agree with you that it would be foolish to believe that any company would support a cheap device perpetually but I think it should be common practice (or mandatory) to open the software so that people can extend the life of these devices. Generally speaking, as a species we cannot afford to waste electronic devices simply because the software is not up to date.
I come down to these comments to have someone angrily explain it in simple terms to me.
Fair enough.
That's not angry enough
Sucks for you then
My god does anybody else downvote an article if it's blatant clickbait? How does it have 520 score? You were supposed to be better than r**dit remember?
It is a little clickbaity, but the new device isn't the same as Chromecast.
Mines been packed away for a few years now
any product made by or linked to google is a no buy. I basically dont buy anything these days. fuck that company!
I already forgot it existed.
Google is just doing Google things. It seems that over the years, Google has been doing things to destroy whatever is left of their reputation.
I look at Android for example. Even though I still use Android, I used to look forward to the next Android update. Not anymore!