They are paired in stereo and I can select them on my iMac or iOS devices but I can only select the 2 separately on my MacBook M1. Anyone seen this?
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HomePod My HomePods do not show up as a stereo pairs on new MacBook M1.
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I've seen mentioned that mac's don't play well with paired HomePods, I believe the Mac is still using airplay-1, and you need 2 to stream to stereo.
that's all from before the Big Sur release, so it might have changed. but might give you a direction to explore
that's all from before the Big Sur release, so it might have changed. but might give you a direction to explore
It’s normal. This has been requested for years since you could pair HomePods in stereo. You can stream to them as a stereo pair in iTunes/Apple Music app but not system wide like you can in iOS. There several annoying work around s but it’s not true stereo.
I doubt it. They enabled stereo pair & AirPlay 2 with HomePod software 11.4 way back on May 29th 2018.. It's existed in iOS ever since. Why would it take them 2.5+ years to bring such a simple feature to the Macintosh? I'm convinced that if it was going to happen, it would have happened by now. I'd love to be wrong though
I’m glad it didn’t. Not sure why they’ve decided almost 3 years later to add that feature to macOS, but sweet Jesus, I’ll take it!This did not age well
