Intro plus Apple Music

[Tim Curtis]

Couple of challenges with the new Apple Music is that at least on Big Sur the app does not connect to Airplay 1 receivers i.e. shairport-sync. Big Sur OS X itself though does via its volume options. Very odd. Maybe the app only supports Airplay 2 or possibly it will only enable Airplay connections if one subscribes to the music service ??

There are some devs working on reverse engineering Airplay 2 but its experimental and will prolly take a fair bit of time before it can be used reliably. https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync/issues/535

Here's the shairport-sync log when attempting to connect from the app.

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64.528839395 "rtsp.c:2982" Connection 1: new connection from 192.168.1.125:59438 to self at 192.168.1.139:5000.
0.029079804 "rtsp.c:2597" Connection 1: terminated.

Here's the log when connecting from Big Sur itself.

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112.988299353 "rtsp.c:2982" Connection 2: new connection from 192.168.1.125:59480 to self at 192.168.1.139:5000.
0.292795736 "rtsp.c:2663" Connection 2: Received an RTSP Packet of type "ANNOUNCE":
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success