Chrome won't play when trying to cast to another device

Plex Media Server
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Server Version#: 1.26.1.5798 (and before that, v1.25.x)
Player Version#: Chrome browser 101.0.4951.64

Chrome won’t play music from plex server when I try to cast it to any Chromecast device on my network, from my iMac. It will play on the iMac itself.

I can select the Cast device in Chrome, and it makes the ‘connected’ sound on the selected device, but when I click Play, the music doesn’t start, and the playing time sticks at 00:.

I can play music from the same Plex server via my iPhone to a Chromecast device, but not from my computer.

This has only started recently, but it has persisted not only after my most recent update to Plex server, but was also true for the previous version of Plex server at least for the last couple of days. Not sure when it last worked, probably a couple of weeks ago, but I hadn’t tried for a while until yesterday.

I see one much older post from May (?) 2021, with the same problem but no replies, and no solution.

I’ve recently restarted the media server after upgrading to v1.26.1.5798 tonight, and restarted my iMac as well. No change - still won’t play to a Cast device.

Is this an issue with the Plex Web player, or Chrome, or something else? And is there a known fix? AFAIK the Chrome browser is the only Plex player than can cast at all, but it’s stopped working for me.

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I’m having the same issue with my android. After upgrading plex on May 26, 2022, I can’t play music anymore when I connect to my chromecast audio. I’m almost 100% sure it’s an issue with the latest plex version because my tablet works just fine because I haven’t upgraded plex on it, yet.

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I upgraded my android phone which now won’t play music when casting. But my android tablet works fine because I didn’t upgrade plex on it.

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