Google Cast

Google Cast sends lyrics from the OnSong^® app to a TV or projector over Wi-Fi, using a Chromecast, a Google TV, or any display with Google Cast built in. There’s no capture box, no HDMI run across the room and no second computer to operate — the receiver joins the same network as your host device, and the OnSong^® app drives it from the stage or sound booth.

What the room sees is your song — your chosen background image or motion background, your styling, and the words for the song you’re on. Because the receiver loads a page served by the OnSong^® app itself, the projection follows along live as you move through sections and change songs.

External Video

The Google Cast button lives in the External Video Menu, alongside the rest of the projection controls. Open it from the menubar and the Google Cast logo appears in the toolbar. The cast glyph lights up in your accent color while a session is running, so you can tell at a glance whether the display is live.

The button appears only on devices that support Google Cast so it is not available on the macOS version of the OnSong^® app.

Requirements

• OnSong^® Premium Subscription. is required since it involves lyrics projection, as are Scenes and Live Video backgrounds.
• Chromecast, Google TV, or Cast-enabled Display — or a browser on the network, if you’re using the web browser technique.
• Local Wi-Fi Network must be the same for the host device such as your iPad, and the Google Cast receiver. The OnSong^® app serves the projection page from the host device directly over the local network, so both ends have to be able to reach each other. Guest networks and venue networks that isolate clients from one another are the usual reason a receiver never appears.
• Local Network Access must be granted to the OnSong^® app. The operating system should prompt for access the first time or you can enable Local Network Access through the OnSong Settings Screen.

If the display goes blank or stops following the song, the network dropped rather than the app — the receiver is loading a page from your host device, not a stream from Google. Reconnecting from the Google Cast button re-serves it. On an unfamiliar network, casting to a web browser on a laptop first is the quickest way to find out whether the network will carry it at all.