i have for some time been able to play music back on my hifi from my Mac mini, using iTunes and the remote app on my iPad. I now want to play music from the Spotify service to my hifi. I can't work out how to do it with my hardware though. What suggestions can you make, please?
Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
There is a way to airplay audio only. Play Spotify normally, then on your mac head over to system preferences, then click Sound.
If your Apple TV has airplay turned on, you should see it in your "Outputs" tab there with Type "Airplay". Select it, and the sound from Spotify should start coming out through the speakers you have connected to the Apple TV.
I would rather stream the music from my Mac than my iPad; there is a Mac app called airfoil which will do the job,i discover, but that is not free. I wondered if the functionality was included in osx; I was hoping so, as it's all Apple hardware and it doesn't seem unreasonable to be able send an audio stream from ones computer tho a networked device.
Later model Mac have AirPlay capability
thanks for the reply. I have tried AirPlay mirroring but get no audio (in this instance all I am interested in). I thought I had some setting wrong on my hifi at first, but when I play back through iTunes the audio is fine.
There is a really quick way: hold the "Option" key on your mac an click the volume icon on your top menu bar! If airplay is available, you should see all your audio output options on the dropdown menu!
Quick and address my problem immediately. Thanks
Where is the option key?
How do I play Spotify through my Apple tv?
