Apple Airplay 2 Wireless Streaming Has Arrived!

gene

gene

Audioholics Master Chief
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Apple's Airplay 2 wireless streaming protocol is finally here a year after it was first announced at their Worldwide Developer Conference.

A year after it was first announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June of 2017, the AirPlay 2 wireless streaming protocol is finally here. AirPlay 2 brings multi-room audio to Apple’s HomePod smart speaker, and promises a huge new ecosystem of compatible devices from a wide range of manufacturers.

Will AirPlay 2 bring the functionality necessary for whole home audio streaming? Read on to find out.

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Read: Apple Airplay 2 is Finally Here!
 
DigitalDawn

DigitalDawn

Senior Audioholic
Nice. Control4 supports AirPlay 1.0 with their ShairBridge driver. Looking forward to 2.0 support as well.
 
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snakeeyes

Audioholic Ninja
Apple's Airplay 2 wireless streaming protocol is finally here a year after it was first announced at their Worldwide Developer Conference.

A year after it was first announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June of 2017, the AirPlay 2 wireless streaming protocol is finally here. AirPlay 2 brings multi-room audio to Apple’s HomePod smart speaker, and promises a huge new ecosystem of compatible devices from a wide range of manufacturers.

Will AirPlay 2 bring the functionality necessary for whole home audio streaming? Read on to find out.

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Read: Apple Airplay 2 is Finally Here!
Any news on if Yamaha receivers will get this feature or as a firmware update? Thanks
 
BoredSysAdmin

BoredSysAdmin

Audioholic Slumlord
Using voice commands and control of smart speakers/tv's possibly (using AppleTV) reminds me of this:
(hint: Watch Amazon's Goliath Season 2 to get the reference)
 
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sterling shoote

Audioholic Field Marshall
Now, imagine multi-channel; and, home theatre down the road could be possible from just an iPhone and a bunch of battery powered active speakers.
 
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exthree

Audiophyte
The problem with Apple Airplay 2 is that it streams music to devices only from within the Apple ecosystem, like iTunes and Apple Music. If you want to stream Sirius Radio, Pandora or Spotify you're out of luck! /Peter F.
 
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sterling shoote

Audioholic Field Marshall
The problem with Apple Airplay 2 is that it streams music to devices only from within the Apple ecosystem, like iTunes and Apple Music. If you want to stream Sirius Radio, Pandora or Spotify you're out of luck! /Peter F.
Airplay is all about getting iTunes from computer to stereo receiver. So yeah, if you have some other music player on your computer, you would need another means of wired or wireless delivery, like Bluetooth.
 

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