Airplay intermittent after updating MacBook Air to Sonoma 14.0

Hi Flabzilla,

We see you can't use AirPlay. Let's investigate this AirPlay concern.

Is this happening in multiple apps? Do you have AirPlay you could test with?

Try restarting all the devices involved if you haven't already:

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Hi Flabzilla,

Ideally, testing AirPlay to another device would help to isolate if this concern is exclusive to your Mac, to the speaker that you're using, or just the connection between the two. If that is not possible, use the last direction of the previous message to investigate further:

"For more help isolating and investigating the issue, contact Apple Support:

Get Support"

Regards.

This is happening to me as well. I'm using Music on a MacBook Pro, sending the audio to a few HomePods. After playing a song or two, audio cuts out, though the Music app still believes it's playing. If I wait it out, the next song will play audio again. But in another few songs it will happen again. Like you, if I manually skip to the next song, or actually click to chose a different part of the current song (silently) playing, I get audio again.

Also, if I stop using Airplay, and play audio locally only on my computer, the problem goes away.

I've tried toggling Crossfade off, but no luck there either. I've also tried restarting the app and rebooting the computer. No luck yet. Hopefully somebody has a workaround or fix.

SOLUTION: This might apply to you as well, but the problem seems to be from my MacBook Pro being connected to my network with an Ethernet Cable. Once I unplugged Ethernet and started using a WiFi connection again, the Music/Airplay problem seems to have gone away.