"Google Cast is designed to give you more freedom while listening to music."
I sense some irony in this statement.
I sense some irony in this statement.
I don't want to have to upload a huge library of music just to stream it to my local network, where I already have the music on my hard drive.
But I've always wondered about this argument - Why wouldn't you put your local music library on Google music? It's free and means you've got access to your library everywhere. I could understand before they had matching that uploading 100+GB of music is probably not desirable, but it now even big libraries are fully uploaded in a day or so.
What makes you assume that Google Cast wouldn't? You can stream your local video collection to a Chromecast.
In fact, how is it restricted at all? If it works like a Chromecast does, the SDK is open and anyone can write receiver apps to run on it. How much more open do you need it to be?