macOS 11.3 Music and AirPort Express AirPlay Problem (Cannot play more than 7 seconds)

Hello,


After I updated my macOS to 11.3, the Music app on Mac often fails to stream my music to my AirPort Express (802.11n (2nd Generation)). It just stops after about 7 seconds. Does anybody have similar issue?


I use Apple Music on M1 MacBook Air and the music file is downloaded on local drive.


Thank you,

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Apr 30, 2021 11:29 PM

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Posted on Nov 13, 2021 12:09 PM

Just an update about my recent experiments:

As I posted earlier, streaming did not work from MacBookAir M1 to AirPort Express V2 with latest firmware. I suppose it uses Airplay 2.

Today I downgraded firmware to 7.6.9 (no AirPlay 2 support) and all works fine whole day over AirPlay 1. 🤞

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