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Uncheck “My Computer” to have the audio play only from the HomePod. The My Computer entry indicates the speakers physically attached (or built-in) to your PC.Ĭheck the box next to your HomePod to start playing your iTunes music on it. Then you can tap on the Sonos Beam as well in order to group the two speakers together so that we can play the same song on two speakers in separate rooms at the same time.In our example screenshot, our HomePod is named Office. Just tap on the HomePod icon to start playing Mamma Mia on the HomePod in the bedroom. You’ll also see that the Bedroom speaker is listed as ‘Not Playing’ in a separate little box below that – we’ll come back to that in a minute when AirPlay starts to get really clever. At the moment, Mamma Mia is playing on the iPhone’s internal speaker, so the iPhone is ticked at the top of the list, but we can also see the icon for the HomePod in the bedroom, with the Sonos Beam right below it. Tap the little red AirPlay icon at the bottom of the Music app screen, and you’ll see the AirPlay speakers we set up. We’ll demonstrate its capabilities with the song Mamma Mia by Abba, which we’ve transferred from iTunes on a Mac to the iOS Music app on an iPhone. Now that we’ve got the two speakers properly set up, we can see what AirPlay 2 is really capable of. But AirPlay 2 changes all that, because it now allows you to create a mix-and-match multi-room speaker system. In the past, you always had to buy multi-room speaker systems from a single manufacturer – such as Sonos – because multi-room speakers made by one company weren’t compatible with speakers from others. Multi-room speakers, which means AirPlay 2 speakers from different manufacturers will now work together for the first time. Libratone’s portable Zipp range – it has begun to license AirPlay 2 for use in other types of speakers as well.Īnd here’s the real headline for AirPlay 2, because AirPlay 2 now provides ‘interoperability’ for And, just as Apple licensed the original AirPlay to other manufacturers – where it is found in high-end speakers such as the The original AirPlay just worked with one speaker at a time, but one of the key features of AirPlay 2 is its ability to connect multiple speakers together as part of a multi-room audio system that allows you to play music throughout your home.