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Airplay from macOs MC27?

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dfortney:
I was wondering if the mac version of MC27 supports airplay to my various HomePods same as Apple Music currently does?  If not would really like to see this feature as I now have a number of AirPods throughout the house and don't want to use Apple Music anymore because my main library is managed by MC.

Awesome Donkey:
No it doesn't. I believe you'd have to use an app like Airfoil.

bob:
Mine plays to my Apple TV (and Id's using Airplay) if I choose Core Audio (Default) in MC and then choose the Airplay output device in the system.

dfortney:

--- Quote from: bob on May 11, 2021, 09:43:47 am ---Mine plays to my Apple TV (and Id's using Airplay) if I choose Core Audio (Default) in MC and then choose the Airplay output device in the system.

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Have 2 homepods that i was trying to add as devices to the Audio Midi Setup (why they still call this midi?) with the '+' at the bottom -> 'connect airplay device' which does connect but only one of the airplay devices at a time however as soon as you try connecting another you lose the first and it seems those devices only stay in the list of possibilities if it is actively selected as the output.  Question is how would I create an aggregate or multi-output device with say both of those homepods and my main DAC?  Doesn't seem possible.  Within Apple Music app you can select multiple airplay devices from a dropdown together no problem.  To say setting up the audio devices is confusing would be an understatement.  It doesn't quite seem possible to set it up correctly with multiple outputs so I could effectively listen to the same music from more then one homepod and dac together.  Even just playing it to one homepod is a bit of a hassle to setup since you have to go into Midi and add the airplay device and then remove it and revert your output device back every time you want to change it. 

I think adding Airplay2 support to MC27 in the same way Apple Music app magically allows it would be the way to go. Proper and easy to use airplay integration into MC is the hot ticket feature that would add real value add for users. What I 'want' to do and can do from within Apple Music doesn't seem possible currently within MC.

dfortney:
This interface just makes perfect sense for it allowing selection of multiple devices together and being able to select the volume of each as appropriate and I think MC should adopt the same moving the output selection out of the options menu and right to the top of the interface with the volume slider...

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