The HomePod can be used as
airplay speakers, playing audio from your other Apple products like the iPhone, iPad, MacBook or Apple TV.
Now you can easily use your Apple Watch to connect your iPhone to
AirPlay speakers and play music anywhere in your house.
The company behind some of the best
AirPlay speakers on the market is ready to give Apple's AirPods a new challenger.
Porthole is a Mac app which will stream all the audio coming from your computer to
AirPlay speakers, instead of just the music from iTunes.
Other than the queuing songs feature and the «improved buffereing», what different is this from playing music through multiple
AirPlay speakers with iTunes?
The A5, A7 and Zeppelin Air will still be able to work as
AirPlay speakers, but they won't be able to reap the full benefits of the new technology.
You can now also play audio to your Apple TV from your iOS device or Mac, enabling those speakers connected to your media center to become
AirPlay speakers.
Apple AirPlay 2 will add speaker control to the Home app, meaning you will be able to individually control all of
your AirPlay speakers from your iPhone for the first time.
During the keynote, Craig Federighi showed a slide of speaker makers already on board to support AirPlay 2, either with new equipment or a firmware update to existing Wi - Fi equipped
AirPlay speakers.
iPhone Music control has been restored in the Music app and you will be able AirPlay from iPhone to
AirPlay speakers using Apple Watch controls.
The downside to AirPlay is that only your Apple devices will be able to stream audio to
AirPlay speakers without third - party software — various Windows and Android apps let you stream to
AirPlay speakers, but Apple doesn't officially support these apps.
Using Apple TV or a set of
AirPlay speakers makes the process much simpler - you simply use your iPhone to add the device as you would any new Wi - Fi network.
You'll be hard pressed to find a better
AirPlay speaker than the Zeppelin Wireless.
confusion: Rather than pairing specific devices to specific speakers, AirPlay lets any iOS device send audio to
any AirPlay speaker on the network, on the fly, with no setup required.
After being impressed by Marshall's Stanmore
AirPlay speaker earlier this year, the firm asked me if I'd be interested in trying its latest headphones, the Marshall Mid ANC.
Unlike any other Bluetooth speakers, your HomePod is rather
an AirPlay speaker.
Previously, with the AirPlay protocol, you could only stream to one
AirPlay speaker at a time.
When you're watching a video, you can give the trackpad a quick swipe down to access other options, like turning on subtitles, or choosing
an AirPlay speaker to send audio to.
For example, when you're watching a show or movie, you can swipe down on the trackpad for more options, like choosing
an AirPlay speaker or turning on subtitles.
The HomePod may not be a traditional Bluetooth speaker, but it is a standard
AirPlay speaker (with some added smarts, of course).
Cult of Mac «s Buster Hein explains why he thinks $ 350 is too much to pay for the best
AirPlay speaker available.
If you can control your TV's volume with the Siri remote, you're using AirPods, connected to a Bluetooth speaker, or
AirPlay speaker, you can change the volume using the physical volume buttons on your device.
HomePod is
an AirPlay speaker, so you can send any audio from any iPhone, Mac, iPad, or Apple TV to your HomePod that you want.
Update January 25, 2018: Added a note about the pending release of the HomePod, which you'll be able to connect to Apple TV to use as
an AirPlay speaker.
In fact, if you have a Mac, you can use the HomePod as an external
AirPlay speaker for any music or audio source.
The HomePod acts as a regular
AirPlay speaker as well, of course, so you can beam content to it from any AirPlay - enabled app on your phone.
As
an AirPlay speaker, the Bose SoundTouch 20 is fantastic, but Bose's own SoundTouch app for multi-room audio is more limited.
Not exact matches
Sonos has also announced it's planning to support Apple's
Airplay 2 and Google's Assistant next year, which would make it the most compatible smart home
speaker around.
Sonos reveals Sonos One, an Alexa - enabled
speaker that will support
AirPlay 2 and Google Assistant
This high - tech
speaker features Apple's
AirPlay, a technology that wirelessly streams audio from various systems including iPhones, iPads, or iTunes f.
You can find plenty of audio devices that support
AirPlay (such as portable
speakers), but video devices are thin on the ground at present.
tvOS 11.4 turns Apple TV into an
AirPlay 2
speaker which supports multi-room
AirPlay from iOS.
Stream your mix wirelessly to Apple TV, AirPort Express station, or any
AirPlay - supported
speaker dock, AV receiver, and stereo system.
In an effort to compare apples to apples (so to speak), in this section «an
AirPlay system» means a network linked using an AirPort Express ($ 99) or Apple TV ($ 100), and which utilizes your existing
speaker system or HDTV.
Even if you have to begin with the unsophisticated AirPort Express setup, you could always add a set of
AirPlay compatible
speakers or upgrade your television down the road (to one that works with Apple TV) and use your AirPort Express on a different set of
speakers to create a multi-room experience.
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Back in June, Apple promised us
AirPlay 2, a simple way to connect and control multiple
speakers together via an iPhone or other Apple device.
AirPlay is a pretty great technology and you'll be able to stream not just Apple Music but also most other audio apps for iOS to your
speakers using the AirPort Express.
While I believe those claims on a technical level, the truth is that I didn't notice any major differences using the Chromecast Audio versus connecting an Apple AirPort Express to the same
speakers, with audio being
AirPlayed through my phone or tablet.
Dual - band Wi - Fi via DTS Play - fi offers multiroom connection to a plethora of
speakers, alongside
Airplay support.
The Sonica is the rare
speaker in this price range that boasts Wi - Fi connectivity — and support for Apple's
AirPlay — as well as Bluetooth.
If you have an old, otherwise useless desktop or laptop in the closet, you could pull it out of mothballs, plug in some powered
speakers (and a USB DAC if you want to go all out), combining them with Roon Ready networked DAC's,
AirPlay devices, Squeezeboxes, and Meridian streaming DACs to build out a high - powered multi-room audio system.
(Before you consider buying a new
speaker system for wireless audio at home, take a look around: If you already own a set of powered
speakers or a good stereo system, and if you want to use it with your iPhone or iPad, you can simply connect it with a basic audio cable, or you can use an
AirPlay or Bluetooth adapter to add wireless - stream capabilities to your existing
speakers.
As reported by Engadget, this means that you can use these
speakers as a part of a multiroom audio -
speaker system, using Marshall's new Multi-Room app, Chromecast, Spotify Connect, or
AirPlay.
We wouldn't call
Airplay setup for the NE5 a snap, but it wasn't the finicky, consult - the - manual task we've confronted with earlier Wi - Fi
speaker designs, either.
Best of all, with Wi - Fi enabled
speakers like the Cube, you have the ability to use network protocols such as Apple's
AirPlay and DLNA, so that you can stream music from your computer or music server.
I can toss a Bluetooth
speaker into the mix by having the mac mini host the music player and turning my Phone into an
Airplay Receiver with Airfoil (output of my phone then to Bluetooth to the
speaker).
AirPlay 2 may require a software update to existing
speakers or new hardware depending on
speaker manufacturer.
This will allow the Apple TV to control multiple
AirPlay 2 - compatible
speakers, alongside any traditionally connected
speakers as part of a home theater system, effectively making it possible for the audio from a TV show or movie played on the Apple TV 4K to be heard throughout a household.
, adheres to none of the iOS platform UI conventions, doesn't integrate with HomeKit, no watchOS app, no native
AirPlay support (I know you can plug an Airport Express into a Play 5 but that is a * massive * pain in the arse and the interface is awkward as hell — each speaker / zone should just appear as an Airplay destination on my iOS d
AirPlay support (I know you can plug an Airport Express into a Play 5 but that is a * massive * pain in the arse and the interface is awkward as hell — each
speaker / zone should just appear as an
Airplay destination on my iOS d
Airplay destination on my iOS devices.