Spotify plans to add AirPlay 2 to its app

Spotify still hasn’t added support for AirPlay 2 to its iOS app. But despite the delay, she is still working to make it a reality.

Doubts about the inclusion of AirPlay 2 were raised when a representative of a music streaming service wrote on the community forums: We discussed this idea internally. While we are working on supporting AirPlay 2 appropriately, we have decided to shut it down for now.

The actor blamed the sound driver compatibility issues. Because of that, he said, “It looks like this is a bigger project that we won’t be able to complete for the foreseeable future. “

The music streaming service claims it is a bug. She said support for AirPlay 2 is still active. An article on one of our community pages contained incomplete information about our plans for AirPlay2. We are working on supporting AirPlay 2 and we want to make it a reality.

Apple introduced AirPlay 2 three years ago – in May 2018 – as part of iOS 11.4. With many improvements over the original AirPlay wireless audio protocol. Including multi-room audio, Siri voice control, and enhanced buffering.

The app can support AirPlay 2 by implementing the AVFoundation APIs, with a four-step process described through Apple’s developer website.

Last year, the company also enabled support for third-party music services through HomePod and HomePod mini.

In March 2019, Spotify filed a complaint with the European Commission accusing Apple of preventing it and other Apple competitors from accessing Siri, HomePod, and Apple Watch.

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Spotify wants to support AirPlay 2

The platform still doesn’t offer native support for HomePod speakers. It’s nice that you can play music from the app through Siri and download Spotify tracks through your Apple Watch.

And you can connect the streaming service to your smart TVs and speakers through AirPlay or Spotify Connect.

And platform users officially won’t be able to take advantage of AirPlay 2 features like latency reduction, multi-room audio, and Siri control anytime soon.

However, since AirPlay is built into iOS, it should still work with any audio app as long as you use the operating system level playback controls, rather than the Spotify app.

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