remixer-dec / mMusicCast

Chromecast emulator that works on any platform. Stream videos from youtube in 4K fullscreen, with background play

mMusicCast

Simple chromecast emulator written in javascript on top of electron.

Extra features of this fork:

• YouTube app still works after official deprecation
• 4K Support in YouTube app*
• AdBlock**
• Background Playback
• Fullscreen mode (double-click to toggle)

*- depends on your screen size + zoomFactor property, you might need to switch to fullscreen/fit-to-screen mode before starting casting, to get it. If you used previous versions of mMusicCast before, you might also need to clean app's cache. In Windows, it's located in %APPDATA%/mMusicCast
**- disabled by default, change constant in main.js to enable it. Designed only for YT app.

Supported applications:

• YouTube - all platforms
• Spotify - Spotify connect using librespot (requires premium subscription and unix based os)

Currently Spotify playback doesn't give any feedback in the UI. For a future release, the creator of original version plans to display what is playing and add controls.

Platforms:

• macOS
• linux
• Windows
• raspberryPi

Install & run

• npm install
• npm start

Open YouTube or Spotify app on your phone and enjoy streaming ;)