“Audio enthusiasts who prefer to listen to music on their existing speakers have been waiting for some time to see AirPlay 2 cracked, and that day has now arrived,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac:
Apple uses a proprietary streaming protocol which means only speakers that have licensed the tech from Apple can receive and decode the audio. But that protocol has now been reverse-engineered.
What this means is that multi-room playback from iOS devices will be possible to any speaker system when connected to something like a Raspberry Pi running an app designed to receive and decode AirPlay 2 audio streams.
The developer who made the announcement was quick to point out that cracking the protocol is only the first step: the team still needs to build an app around it before it can be used.
MacDailyNews Take: Or, you could simply get a nice AirPlay 2 speaker or receiver!
didn’t RogueAmoeba already crack that? https://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/
Might be the case that AirFoil only supports AirPlay 1, which precludes multi-speaker playback from iOS devices.