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May 21, 2016 6:56 AM in response to Rudegarby Teddy 3,Thanks for your reply. Just checked it and YES - exactly same behaviour with built in music player.
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May 22, 2016 10:57 AM in response to Teddy 3by Teddy 3,I've done a bit more troubleshooting - using my iPhone as well as my iPad AND using 2 different streaming devices. The problem persists - suggesting it's an iOS issue. At first I thought I'd solved it my using my iPhone (rather than iPad) however, the time it takes for the device to decide it's going to drop my Airplay connection is variable - sometimes drops straight after I've paused and some times if I resume after a minute the connection is still good. There is never any stutter whilst playing, the iOS devices seem to have a mind of their own. I wish someone could explain w the f is going on.
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Aug 3, 2016 2:22 PM in response to Teddy 3by Teddy 3,I am amazed no one experienced this, it's still happening and I need a solution
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Aug 3, 2016 2:53 PM in response to Teddy 3by Diana.McCall,I think this may be a feature of your AirPlay receiver. You mentioned a HiFi device; what is the make and model?
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Aug 4, 2016 1:58 AM in response to Diana.McCallby Teddy 3,Hi Diana,
My Hi Fi streaming devices are made by Linn (the model is irrelevant as I have 2 different ones and they both exhibit the same issue with my iOS devices). I have been on the Linn Forums and other Linn users were quick to advise they are experiencing the same thing. Some have suggested the behaviour we are experiencing became markedly worse after the introduction of iOS9. I thought the issue could be related to Spotify but the same (airplay connection drop after pause) behaviour occurs with the inbuilt iOS music application and so that was a red herring - nothing to do with Spotify either. I firmly believe this is an iOS issue. I appreciate Apple will deny it's their problem but any help in sorting this highly annoying issue would be appreciated.
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Aug 4, 2016 9:06 AM in response to Teddy 3by Diana.McCall,AirPlay was substantially revised for iOS 9, so that may explain your observation. Hard to say if the change in drop time is intentional or accidental.
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Aug 4, 2016 9:22 AM in response to Diana.McCallby Diana.McCall,So, as a test, I started Slacker radio AirPlay from iPad Air 9.3.3 to Apple TV 9.2.2. Let it play for a moment, then paused for 5 minutes, using the iPad Slacker app. Play resumed smoothly. How long a pause is required to cause the drop that you observe? Is it possible that you're doing something on your device or receiver that triggers the disconnect? Might you need to update the firmware on your receivers?
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Aug 4, 2016 9:40 AM in response to Diana.McCallby Diana.McCall,Paused for 15 minutes, no drop in AirPlay. iPad busy web browsing during these pauses.
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Aug 4, 2016 1:32 PM in response to Diana.McCallby Teddy 3,The connection drops after mere seconds of pause - no time to do anything to trigger the behaviour which is completely reproducable.
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Aug 4, 2016 1:41 PM in response to Teddy 3by Diana.McCall,Then it looks like it may be a problem with the AirPlay receiver, not the iOS client. If the Linn firmware has not been updated since Sept 2015, when iOS 9 was released, an update may be needed.
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Aug 4, 2016 2:01 PM in response to Diana.McCallby Teddy 3,My Linn firmware has been updated several times since then. It seems we have a classic case of you saying it's their fault - and vice versa
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Aug 4, 2016 2:33 PM in response to Teddy 3by Diana.McCall,Hey, I'm just a user like you. I had a Sony GS8 media player that was killed by the addition of encryption to AirPlay in iOS 9. But my observations with iPad and Apple TV seem to indicate that the iPad does not drop the AirPlay connection even when a third-party app stops sending audio for many minutes. Since there's no reason to think that your iPad behaves any differently than mine, it casts doubt on the receiver.
Do you know if Linn is an Apple licensee? It seemed to me that the iOS 9 update was designed to quash reverse-engineered AirPlay implementations.
Are you by any chance using peer-to-peer AirPlay? Do you need to enable Bluetooth in order to see the receivers? Peer-to-peer might be quicker to drop the connection, since it creates a temporary direct link between the devices.
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Aug 5, 2016 8:41 AM in response to Diana.McCallby Teddy 3,I'm not sure what you mean by peer-to-peer. However I don't need bluetooth to see the receivers. I doubt if Linn is an Apple licensee - but I will check. What you seem to be saying if it isn't, Apple found a way of preventing manufacturers who aren't licensees from using Airplay? If this is the case it does seem more than a tad mean?