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Yeah those are likely considered dead and abandoned by google, they will probably not give a shit about it.
I have to think there's some project out there where you could plug a 3.5 to RCA adapter into a Pi and use it in a similar fashion. Maybe would need a bridge app from the 'cast' function to connect to it, but I expect not impossible.
I've tried it but the audio quality was absolutely atrocious on the first pi generations at least. I got a hat from a third party for it.
The computational capacity of the first gen compared to current gen is huge. As such, there are a few popular projects that try to be an everything-streamer
It wasn't a computing power issue: simply plugging a hat into the same exact pi B2 fixed the issue.
I've tried to Google for an article about this but I didn't get lucky. Essentially it was something about how the jack output was driven using pwm that was causing hissing and crackling if I remember right.
And I concur that it's a good everything streamer if you use the HDMI output or a hat with an audiophile-grade audio output.
Edit: the latest pis might still have a better-driven jack output but I still won't trust it unless I test it thoroughly.
Edit: I was using the B2 and not the 2B but this is the issue I had: https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/38023/3-5-mm-jack-starts-to-hiss-after-sound-is-played