Airplay with Apple TV 4k.

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Airplay with Apple TV 4k.

I have an Apple TV 4k, attached to TV with speakers, an Airplay2 speaker and an older Apple TV second generation attached to another TV.

From iTunes in Windows, I can stream without any problem to these 3 devices simultaneously.

However, I want to stream from my Apple TV 4k to my Airplay2 speaker, my Apple TV 2nd gen. This is were I have a problem.

I get a list of three devices to stream to: TV speakers (attached to my Apple TV 4K), my Airplay2 speaker and my Apple TV 2nd gen. I can stream to TV speakers and Airplay2 speaker simultaneously, but when I select my Apple TV 2nd gen, I can not also select my TV speakers and/or my Aiplay2 speaker.

When streaming with Airplay from the Apple TV 4K one can stream at most to one Apple TV 2nd gen at the time????

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Rob.

Apple TV 4K

Posted on Feb 21, 2021 6:49 AM

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vazandrew

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Feb 21, 2021 9:53 AM in response to RGM Janssen

That is because iTunes has supported that capability for quite some time, whereas other devices require airplay 2. The 2nd gen only supports standard airplay so you would not be able to utilize it in that scenario.

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Feb 21, 2021 7:14 AM in response to RGM Janssen

Audio-only sources can be streamed to multiple devices using AirPlay 2, but not the audio of video sources. – Just confirming that we are talking about music here.

Apple TV (2nd generation) understands AirPlay, but not AirPlay 2, limiting this multi-room capability of AirPlay 2 somewhat when this model is part of it. It depends where you stream from, and where your stream to.

AirPlay system requirements - Apple Support

If AirPlay isn’t working on your device - Apple Support

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RGM Janssen Author

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Feb 21, 2021 7:37 AM in response to Urquhart1244

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I am streaming music.

And I can stream from Apple TV 4K to Apple TV (2nd gen) but what I can not do is stream from Apple TV 4K simultaneously

to Apple TV (2nd gen) and an Airplay2 speaker. Whereas from iTunes this is possible.

Or what also is not possible to stream to 2 Apple TV (2nd gen). And this is also possible from iTunes windows.

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Airplay with Apple TV 4k.

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