Great for streaming audio

I use the chromecast to stream internet radios. It's best used along with mobile apps. I use TuneIn radio to trigger playback and GoogleCast app to stop casting and/or to change the volume. The GoogleCast app takes pretty long to load even though it does almost nothing. Apart from showing a list of devices (plus basic control) it shows also list of chromecast enabled apps. That would be useful if I could actually install those apps - majority of them are only for US app store, so it points me only to an error message. I actually wanted to use it even to send wirelessly sound from my MacBook to my remote speakers, but that's not possible. There is no official support for such feature, so I tried some open source projects. It didn't even start, so I abandoned this and still using Bluetooth to transfer the sound itself. The only way to transfer sound from MacBook is via Google Chrome, which I'm not using anyway. I've also struggled a bit to setup the device as it works only in Chrome, no other browsers are supported. So the device does it job in playing online music very well, but it's not capable doing anything else.Read full review

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