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@Velocio
It's not cross-purposes... I don't want my phone/tablet "casting" anything. It means the phone is getting involved and being a middle-man to the streaming. It affects local bandwidth, reliability (we're suddenly WiFi'ing an extra two times), performance (casts are encrypted), and drains the device battery.
The phone/tablet should be a remote only... to only control and nothing else. The music does not need, nay should not, stream via the remote.
The software I'm proposing is an aggregator of streaming services and locally stored files and cloud stored files, and has a web app or mobile app as remote control.
For those who don't have a Sonos... the solution I've proposed would be lower than £100 to buy. And if you do have a Sonos, then you could connect this box to it and if you want to cast it everywhere that would be up to you.