Loa music lovers, have made over the years, important investments in your sound equipmentOn the speakers, one of the most important parts to enjoy your favorite music, so the arrival of technologies such as AirPlay have not been to your liking.
They are not to your liking since not compatible with older equipment. AirPlay was cracked a while ago, so being able to take advantage of old equipment was a breeze. The second generation of AirPlay, AirPlay 2, has just followed in the footsteps of the first, and has just been cracked.
Three developers have been working, they finally got it and published it on GitHub.
Guys ... ready? I can finally confirm that AirPlay 2 works, even in multiple rooms! Streaming audio data successfully recovered, decrypted and decoded!
In order to crack the code that AirPlay 2 uses, the engineers have put it through reverse engineering. In this way, once AirPlay has been cracked, it is a matter of time that any device that does not implement this technology can do so thanks to a Raspberry Pi together with a specific application to be able to receive and decode Airplay 2 audio transmissions.
According to this team, cracking the code is only the first step. Now they are focusing on build an app for anyone to use.
Apple's AirPlay is an incredibly useful feature - assuming, of course, that you have enough Apple products to make it work. As you probably know, AirPlay allows you to switch from one Apple device to another device.
But while Apple has been a bit kinder than usual when it comes to licensing the technology to third-party companies, the chances are still that your particular stereo isn't AirPlay-capable.
It's a shame, but it's a problem you can solve with - you guessed it - a Raspberry Pi. You can make a Raspberry Pi AirPlay receiver and give us simple terminal commands.
Without a doubt, this is excellent news for all those users who have acquired a high-quality stereo over time. However, it is increasingly common to find ourselves in the market with AirPlay 2 compatible speakers at a lower price, so the time it may take to make our current stereo compatible may not be worth it, especially if it is not of high quality.