Adam Kos Apple AirPlay 2 has been available to third-party developers since 2018. Spotify also implemented this technology, which allows for seamless music streaming from devices, but there have been issues. Spotify is now one of the few major content streaming platforms that does not yet fully support the technology.
If you play audio on an iPhone or iPad with the iOS 11.4 or later and on Macus macOS Catalina or later, you can use the technology AirPlay to stream this audio to compatible speakers or smart TVs AirPlayTo stream audio via AirPlay 2 to multiple speakers at the same time, simply select multiple speakers or smart TVs with compatible features.
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So this is a fairly useful console function.mace content, which is certainly not new. The second generation, compared to the first, brought multi-room sound, support for Siri and improved caching. There is a freely available API for third-party developers to use, with Apple he describes the integration into applications in great detail on his developer sites.
Silence on the footpath
But Spotify fumbles a bit in this. Specifically, it is dealing with issues around sound drivers. Although he had already allowed it to open last year Apple their HomePody third-party music services, it is also up to them to deal with this compatibility. Which Spotify still has not added its support, or rather not in a way that makes the connection 100% functional. On the one hand, there is the biggest player in the field of music streaming, on the other hand, a company unable to solve the compatibility issue.
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At the same time, this is a relatively important function in the competitive fight against Apple MusicOf course, it is in Spotify's interest to control as many devices as possible, at the expense of its biggest competitor available in iPhonech. Latest news regarding AirPlay However, 2 are from August 7th of this year, when representatives of the network on your forum they stated: "Spotify will support Airplay 2. We will post updates as they become available.” Since even after a quarter of a year there is still silence on this issue, it is probably clear to you that we are not done yet. And when it will happen, the platform developers themselves may not even know.
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