Chromecast Audio: no more media_player.media_next_track support?

I have several Chromecast Audio (CCA) devices integrated into my Home Assistant instance (latest HAOS on bare metal NUC) that I use to play music from my Plex server.

I noticed a few months ago that I can no longer skip tracks. The control no longer appears on the media player, and when I go to Developer Tools and call the media_player.media_next_track service I am unable to select any of the CCAs as a target entity or device.

I searched and found Media_next_track not working for chromecast anymore which implies there was a similar problem a few years back that was fixed in 2021.1.3.

Is anyone else having this problem? Is this due to a change from Google, or a bug in the integration, or…?

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