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I suspect one of the main reasons this is of note is because you can cast music playing in chrome very easily to a Chromecast. And since those can be plugged straight into a stereo A/V receiver, if you're the kind of person who might use that facility it might be nice to be able to use a higher quality file. Actually I listen to a fair bit of music on my TV, via Google Play -> Chromecast, it's better sound quality than a Bluetooth speaker and doesn't need me to remember to charge yet another set of batteries, but I use my phone to set that going.
I remember a few years ago there was an in-browser music manager very like MediaMonkey, but it's name is escaping me. Something like that, with easy casting, ability to connect to Bluetooth speakers nearby built into the browser it's running in, etc, would be very convenient, because making a playlist for instance on the phone is often an exercise in frustration.
Meanwhile you can easily cast just about anything else via DLNA to a lot of other boxes right from Windows or almost any media player.
And you can stream almost anything to a Chromecast from the phone app.
But from a Windows desktop PC--where you might reasonably have a lot more storage available or networked to store lossless rips of a bunch of albums--to a Chromecast, you're really quite limited to just Chrome. There are a couple of fairly unreliable W10 apps but they are pretty dodgy.
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