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in 2013 Google introduced its first chromecast a video device designed to take the pain out of streaming video to your TV now in 2015 it's trying to do the same thing for your stereo with the new chromecast Audio at the same price of $35 the chromecast Audio is ridiculously small and yet very powerful it offers ease of use and is also very flexible it's designed to be hooked up by the included cable to an auxilary put on any speaker or with a separate adapter to a stereo RCA while it has a decent sounding digital analog converter onboard the unit also has an optical output this means you can hook it up to your receiver or a high-end processor if you like this is something no other dongle under $100 currently does while it's not yet functional the audio will soon get multi room streaming which will enable you to group speakers together in your house so now said better look out you can use the chromecast Audio in a variety of ways with an Android device iOS device or a chromecast extension in the Chrome browser the number of apps that support it natively though is growing with the biggest one now being Spotify to use it simply hit the cast button and pick the adapter you want to send it to and it just works if you have an Android device you can also press the hamburger button in the chromecast app and press cast audio video and that will unable to send all the audio from your device straight to your speakers sadly google tells us Apple devices probably won't ever get this option as a result the chromecast Audio makes the most sense for Android fans they can also use it in almost the same way as Bluetooth but with much better sound quality and it offers the ability to play in several rooms at once for the money it will be a long while if ever before there's anything this simple or this good this is ty Pendlebury for cnet.com you