One of the most interesting technologies of Apple is AirPlay, a technology that allows us to reproduce videos, photos, songs and other content from our devices on our Apple TV, speakers such as HomePods, and on many smart televisions. All this wirelessly and using all the wireless networks that are within our reach. A technology that does not stop there alone, three years ago Apple decided to take us to AirPlay 2, a new AirPlay that allowed us multiroom sound, being able to play music in all rooms or even put different music in each one. A technology that developers also have to apply, but it seems that Spotify is not very clear when ... Keep reading that we give you all the details.
You have to remember that AirPlay 2 launched alongside iOS 11.4 in May 2018, and it is surprising how Spotify has not wanted to adopt this technology that would allow us to use multiroom sound with our HomePods. The company also does not have support for these speakers, although Apple already opened support for third-party music services last year. And now, in one of the Spotify discussion forums, a company representative commented that they had already been working on the implementation of AirPlay 2 in the Spotify app, but at the moment they wanted pause development due to compatibility issues with the audio driver. He talked about how it was a big project that they cannot complete in the near future.
This set off alarms at the headquarters of the green streaming giant and they came out to deny the information. According to Spotify, the post on the Spotify community page contained incomplete information about Spotify's plans with AirPlay 2, Spotify will support AirPlay 2 and they are working to make that a reality. We will see what they are adopting, what is clear is that at this moment everyone has to put the batteries to offer something new, in the end in music they all have similar catalogs and the difference from one service to another is the extras that they include .
