Back in 2018, Apple introduced the following customary of AirPlay which they had been calling AirPlay 2. Some of the options of AirPlay 2 embody assist for multi-room audio, Siri voice management, and higher buffering. If you’re a proponent of AirPlay and was wanting ahead to its assist by Spotify, you’ll be disenchanted to study that won’t be occurring.

In a put up made on the Spotify Community web page, the corporate has introduced that assist for AirPlay 2 has been placed on maintain. There isn’t any phrase on when it’ll resume, however primarily based on the wording by a Spotify Community moderator, it sounds prefer it might need been placed on maintain indefinitely.

According to the put up, “We’ve discussed this Idea internally and while we are working on supporting AirPlay2 in a proper way, we have decided to close it for now. The reason for this is that due to audio driver compatibility issues, this seems like a bigger project that we won’t be able to complete in the foreseeable future.”

While Spotify and Apple don’t have the very best relationship, developer Nathan Lawrence notes on Twitter that that is extra of a technical problem. According to Lawrence, including assist for AirPlay 2 would contain revisiting how the app processes audio, particularly if there may be DRM concerned, so it’s not as simple as flipping a change.

It’s simple to criticize a factor like this, however there may be truly a technical hole that may be very troublesome for an audio app with heavy DRM to shut with regards to this function. You can’t simply flip a change—you need to revisit all of your audio processing. I really feel the builders’ ache. https://t.co/IrwyIY9Uwn

— Nathan Lawrence (@NathanBLawrence) August 6, 2021

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