Back in the middle of 2016, I reviewed Playcast, a new UWP app claiming to liase completely with a Google Chromecast (or other Mircast compatible streaming display). Today sees a big update, bringing it up to date and adding much needed performance improvements and (in theory) better reliability.

Here's the changelog for Playcast UWP since my review:

• Same volume level for all songs by default (you can disable it in the settings)
• UI Accent color can be changed (go in the settings)
• Zoom UI (setup in the settings)
• New code for background audio
• XBoxOne : UI fix black margin on TV removed
• XBOX One ready
• Chromecast Audio Multiroom support
• German language
• Sort buttons are back!
• Performance improvements
• Open a URL directly
• DLNA Drive workaround for large folders and some drives

Quite the update - a few screenshots of this in action today:

Casting a local video to my 'Bedroom' Chromecast... and (right) browsing through the local media content on my phone.

It's a commercial application here in the Store but is a good investment for anyone with both a Windows 10 Mobile-running phone and a Google Chromecast or similar streaming system. It's fair to say that I experienced some unreliability with my own hardware, but then I was running a Fast ring build of Windows 10 Mobile, so I'll cut the developer some slack. 

Comments welcome and data points on your own media equipment!