Does it support AirPlay 2?

Hi @jeremybonan, at this moment there isn’t a timeline for new updates on AirPlay 2.
Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Thanks for letting us know. 

I’d also really love to see full airplay2 implementation in Deezer to get rid of the 2 second delay. 

I just signed up to a trial of Tidal and to my surprise they have fully implemented it.. instant streaming and track changing when air playing from my iphone, and even from the macbook using their desktop app- it’s impressive! 

I dis not know Tidal did it. 
Do you know if the desktop app is Electron based? 
That would bring hope for Deezer to be on par. 

Further to the recent comments by Darko on his channels I would hope that for the time being Deezer will continue to support only Airplay 1 and not 2, at least until the lossy transmission of data streams is resolved. 

It would have been expected in a major release. Version 10 milestone and not AirPlay 2 in sight. 
I can live with the new design but best-in-class streaming experience with speakers should be a no brainer for a music app. 

If Airplay 2 is world class, should it not be able to support streaming of at least CD quality music? Every indication is that at this point it does not. I prefer to live with the 2 second buffer in Airply 1 until the issue of music quality is resolved in Airplay 2.

Hi @BigFKahuna 

I have never read anything like this about airplay 2. The specs state that it takes the very sound file in the buffer in various format, bitrate and sampling… and thus can do better that CD quality. But I am interested to read otherwise. 

https://darko.audio/2023/10/apple-airplay-isnt-always-lossless-sometimes-its-lossy/

If I read this article correctly, I need an app such as Deezer (Airplay 1) to support the transmission of CD quality streams in my iPhone13 to KEF LS60 system.

Hi @BigFKahuna,

Got to read your article.

That’s interesting.

But as far as I understand, AirPlay 2 is really supposed to support all formats without transcoding (either upsampling or downsampling), as exposed by Apple during WWDC when it was released.

However, I don’t know what is refraining Music apps to use it properly (legal issues? technical issues?). During the last WWDC, it appears that Apple had updated the way it can deal with third party DRM.