{"id":102,"date":"2015-06-10T13:13:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/?p=102"},"modified":"2015-06-10T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T13:13:57","slug":"cast-audio-only-from-google-chrome-to-chromecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Cast audio only from Google Chrome to Chromecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a not particularly satisfying work around, but it seems to work. <br \/><br \/>My issue was that the Google Cast extension and GPU processing in Chrome were hammering my CPU and the audio from Spotify was choppy. \u00a0If only there was a way to have audio only. \u00a0Well there is, kind of. \u00a0<strong>Take your tab into a new window and reduce the window size to nothing<\/strong>. \u00a0This caused my CPU usage to drop dramatically, and the audio streams nicely now. \u00a0My TV just displays a thin grey line accross the center of the screen, which I assume is the single pixel of my window or something. \u00a0I&#8217;m pretty happy with that. \u00a0<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tinyChrome.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tinyChrome.png\" alt=\"tinyChrome\" width=\"392\" height=\"118\" class=\"wp-image-103 size-full aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tinyChrome.png 392w, https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tinyChrome-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><br \/><\/a>Changing tracks is a pain in the ass&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a not particularly satisfying work around, but it seems to work. My issue was that the Google Cast extension and GPU processing in Chrome were hammering my CPU and the audio from Spotify was choppy. \u00a0If only there was a way to have audio only. \u00a0Well there is, kind of. \u00a0Take your tab &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/?p=102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cast audio only from Google Chrome to Chromecast<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clientcyde.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}