14-Aug-2014, 12:20 (This post was last modified: 14-Aug-2014, 12:37 by Antoine.)
Spotify macOS client update adds Touch Bar, AirPods auto-pause support. Spotify logo image. Experimental Windows XP theme aped Mac's Aqua user interface. Does Spotify have real Airplay support yet?
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To play music from third-party music services like Spotify to your HomePod, you don't need an iOS device - a Mac will work too. You can send any audio playing on your Mac right to your HomePod. You can load Spotify onto your iPhone and stream music that way, but it does take up space, it also requires a lot of your phone’s memory. If you are at home, with access to your home computer and your wifi network, you can use Airplay to stream music directly from your Mac to your iPhone. Part 1: Client for Mac OS Considering iTunes as the strongest rival, company’s first motive was to facilitate users with some native application which could be served as substitute of iTunes, and thus Spotify client for Mac was launched. I have a Macbook Air that connects via airplay to an AppleTV 4. It was working fine but not anymore. Other Macs and phones can connect to Apple TV without issue. Is spotify free with playstation plus. I restarted and patching up to date. https://clevercomm523.weebly.com/blog/do-i-have-to-download-spotify-to-play-on-a. I created another user on the machine and it connects to Apple TV just fine. There seems to be something messed up in my user profile. Any suggestions?
Spotify Mac Client Airplay Setup
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Spotify Mac Client Airplay Software
As JRiver refuses to implement AirPlay functionality and can't integrate Spotify I went looking for an alternative. A few days ago I found an application (Mac and Windows versions available) called Airserver and I think it's great so I thought I'd share.
Airserver is an AirPlay receiver program which allows you to stream sound (but also mirror your display) to your computer from your iPad or iPhone.
I use Spotify (Premium) for casual listening and exploring new music and before I used to rely on Remoteless which remote controls the Spotify client installed on my playback PC connected to the Devialet. This works in a very basic way and has quite some limitations and issues. Using the official Spotify app on an iPad gives you a much better user experience. With Airserver you can use AirPlay and select the playback machine. In Airserver you select the output playback device, in my case the USB input of the Devialet et voila 'perfect' playback and user experience.
Airserver differs from other AirPlay receiver software (like XBMC for example) in that it allows you to setup a 'lossless quality audio receiver' which mimics an Airport Express. Once this option is enabled, you will see two AirPlay endpoints available on your iDevice. One regular AirPlay receiver and one audio-only receiver suffixed with an 'Ex' in the end. Streaming to the audio-only part of AirServer forces the iOS device to send audio in lossless quality as opposed to AAC compressed audio.
For 'critical' listening of CD rips and high res content I of course still use JRiver/JRemote with Devialet AIR ethernet but this is great for Spotify, Youtube etc. and it is always active/resident (resides in the systemtray) so always ready when I need it.
You can check it out on: http://www.airserver.com There is a 7 day trial available. (I am in no way connected to the makers or business BTW )
Airserver is an AirPlay receiver program which allows you to stream sound (but also mirror your display) to your computer from your iPad or iPhone.
I use Spotify (Premium) for casual listening and exploring new music and before I used to rely on Remoteless which remote controls the Spotify client installed on my playback PC connected to the Devialet. This works in a very basic way and has quite some limitations and issues. Using the official Spotify app on an iPad gives you a much better user experience. With Airserver you can use AirPlay and select the playback machine. In Airserver you select the output playback device, in my case the USB input of the Devialet et voila 'perfect' playback and user experience.
Airserver differs from other AirPlay receiver software (like XBMC for example) in that it allows you to setup a 'lossless quality audio receiver' which mimics an Airport Express. Once this option is enabled, you will see two AirPlay endpoints available on your iDevice. One regular AirPlay receiver and one audio-only receiver suffixed with an 'Ex' in the end. Streaming to the audio-only part of AirServer forces the iOS device to send audio in lossless quality as opposed to AAC compressed audio.
For 'critical' listening of CD rips and high res content I of course still use JRiver/JRemote with Devialet AIR ethernet but this is great for Spotify, Youtube etc. and it is always active/resident (resides in the systemtray) so always ready when I need it.
You can check it out on: http://www.airserver.com There is a 7 day trial available. (I am in no way connected to the makers or business BTW )
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