The dongle is discontinued, so “replace it” now means new hardware. Drag for the number of rooms you want to fill, and we'll price the modern Wi-Fi streamers you'd buy to get casting back — against Home Audio Sync, which needs none.
Prices reflect current retail for popular Chromecast Audio replacements. Doesn't include cables, power adapters, or the hi-fi you still need to plug them into.
The Chromecast Audio was a $35 miracle. Here's what its discontinuation left behind — and how Home Audio Sync fills the same gap.
You can't buy a Chromecast Audio new anymore. Owners are paying inflated resale prices for a five-year-old dongle just to keep a multi-room setup alive. Home Audio Sync needs no dongle at all — the devices you already own become the endpoints.
A discontinued product doesn't get fixes. Every Android, Google Home, or Cast update is a chance for something to break with no patch coming. Home Audio Sync is a web app — it's actively maintained, and it runs in any browser you already have.
The cheapest like-for-like Wi-Fi streamers start around $90 and climb past $400 for line-out models — per room. A four-room setup that cost $140 in Chromecast Audios now runs several times that. Home Audio Sync is $0 in hardware.
A Chromecast Audio only plays what an app chooses to cast to it. When a service drops Cast support, that room goes quiet. Home Audio Sync plays your own library and YouTube directly in the browser — no app has to cooperate.
Every Chromecast Audio was one more device drawing power, holding a cable, and eventually dying. Home Audio Sync turns the hardware you already keep charged and updated into the speaker — nothing new to plug in.
We're honest about it. Here's what the Chromecast Audio still did better — and where Home Audio Sync wins by a lot.
I've wanted a whole-home audio setup for years, but I couldn't justify spending thousands of dollars on proprietary hardware. I had speakers in my office upstairs, a receiver on the main floor, and surround sound in the basement — and I just wanted a way to use them all together.
There had to be a way to use the old phones, tablets, and laptops I already had lying around. So I built one. It's a web app — you open a room, drag in your music, and scan a QR code on any other device to lock it into the same audio stream. No apps to install, and nothing to discontinue out from under you. It plays directly through the browser.
Getting the synchronization right was the hard part, and there are still rough edges — TVs and Bluetooth devices are tricky. But for anything that loads and plays quickly, it's seamless. It's mostly for listening to your own music, with YouTube integration for tracks you don't own.
Try it free. Let us know how it handles on your hardware.