Forced to subscribe to YouTube Music to stream to Chromecast

Google Music is going away and I was asked to move my music and playlists over to YT Music. Fair enough. I mostly stream my own collection and am one of the 13 people left on the planet who still buys music as it's better margins for the artist.

Turns out you can't stream anything to chromecast audio devices without a YT Music subscription (desktop/Chrome doesn't have this limitation).

So I normally shrug at the Google abandonment threads as software is mutable and everything goes away eventually. But this is an artificial limitation that forces us to lease access to the hardware we've already paid for.

Not thrilled in a large way. Next phone will probably be an iPhone, next speakers will probably be Sonos, and the Pixelbook is likely to be my last Google hardware chromebook.

(Solution: move music to a QNAP NAS and stream it from there.)

What are you using for streaming your owned music these days?