Add title and thumb to Chromecast

[bchris999 (Chris)]

For Chromecast, media_player.play_media currently allows you to pass only media_content_id and media_content_type.

Would it be possible to add support to pass title and thumb as well? This is more useful for Nest Hub displays, but would also be useful for the HA media card.

This is already part of pychromecast:

mc = cast.media_controller
mc.play_media('url', 'audio/mp3', 'Title', 'thumb_url')

Currently this just displays a generic “Default Media Receiver Player” with no image.

[lolouk44]

Not sure when but I recently discovered that this is now available, see the extra info:

Media player

My issue now is to try and change that content while playing (i.e. without calling media_player.play_media and restarting the audio stream…
See my question:

How to change the thumb and title of media_player.play_media without restarting?

I stream radio on a Next hub via a custom link. I have a script that extracts content artist / title / thumb from the radio’s website. I know how to set the Title and Thumb when calling the media_player.play_media, but even if I use a template, the content on the Next Hub is static. Is there a way to update the Title and Thumb without having to call media_player.play_media again (and thus breaking /restarting the sream)? I currently set the title and Thumb to the radio station but would pref…