/mMusicCast

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

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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 ;)