woelkchen

Chromecast actually mostly sends a link to a google device and then launches it on the device to play; there isnt a direct replacement to that.

I’m aware of one project called ScreenInvader but it’s unmaintained since about a decade. It offered a web UI where you could paste a URL from any device:

As you can see the UI was clunky and I guess it’s part of the reasons why it died. Too bad, I like the concept of having a jukebox at a party where people can just contribute to without installing anything, let alone sign up for an account.

There is no best. Period.

But there are bad ones. For example Ubuntu and derivatives broke Flatpak support in 25.10. This was known ahead of release but because only Snap matters, the fix will only roll out after release.